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Wesley Snipes, Samuel L. Jackson, Annabella Sciorra, Halle Berry, John Turturo, Ruby Dee, Spike Lee

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David Adler

Harlem is far northern Manhattan. Spanish Harlem on the east side in the lower 100s, everything above that, east and west is Harlem. Even if Washington Heights is further north. Above about 110th Street, you're still in straight up Harlem.

Erin Mileur

When we are introduced to Wesley Snipes and Lonette McKee characters and they loudly having sex the first thought in my head is you two have neighbors and those walls are probably thin and it is early in the morning. You two really should be thinking about more than just your daughter hearing you.

dys

Was Washington Heights ever considered part of Harlem?

David Adler

Northern Manhattan is all sort of Harlem to me. Just very different from below the 100s.

David Adler

Halle Berry was Gator's gal, and I believe she was the first gal to offer to blow him for $20. And that final scene with Gator, his mother and father, the killing, one of the most powerful scenes ever. Staggering emotionally. ☮️

David Adler

And that convo between the black ladies was so good and revealing.

Vicky N

I haven’t seen this movie in awhile. Thanks for reacting to it. Samuel Jackson at the time was a newly recovering drug addict. Spike Lee gave him the opportunity of a life time and launched his career. I think it was Halle Berry first role. Fantastic soundtrack by Stevie Wonder.

Actuarial Lurker

Kevin: The next time you're in NYC you should visit the various museums on 5th ave that stretch up to 110th: The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 5th Ave at 82nd St. Neue Galerie New York: 5th Ave at 86th St. Guggenheim Museum: 5th Ave at 89th St designed by Frank Lloyd Wright with modern and contemporary art. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum: 2 E 91st St. The only museum in the US devoted to historic and contemporary design. The Jewish Museum: 5th Ave at 92nd St. Museum of the City of New York: 5th Ave at 103rd St. El Museo del Barrio: 5th Ave at 105th St. Latino art. The Africa Center: 5th Ave at 110th St. Gory Details of various areas: https://www.nycinsiderguide.com/manhattan-neighborhood-map/ Manhattan extends to around 210th street, the numbers continue in the South Bronx into the 240s/250s or so. The restaurant where Michael kills The Turk and the Police Captain is on the West side of the Bronx on the other side of essentially a stream and foot and car bridge that crosses it. This area has been Italian since WW1, hence the Italian restaurant in Godfather 1 and ther's still a small Italian area there now. Inwood is in Manhattan from the 190s to the northern tip in the 210s, and Washington Heights starts around 155th and ends around 190th. This area WAS about 2/3 White (Irish, Italian, Eastern European/Jewish immigrants until the 1970s with the other 1/3 African American. My grandmother lived in a $100/month rent controlled apartment near the Cloisters (West 190s by Riverside Drive) from the 1960s until her death in the early 90s). This whole area with the South Bronx was owned by the real life Dutch "Dyckmans" since the 1630s (Pete's mother in Mad Men). In the 70s the area from 145th street to the 180s became mainly Dominican and other Hispanics while the area north of 190th STAYED Eastern European as Italians and Irish moved to the Bronx and African Americans moved to 125-145th. The Area 110th to 145th was African American since the Jazz Age in the 1920s. The Morningside Heights area from 96th to 125th on the West side has been taken over by the Columbia University campus as it expanded south from the 110s and North (where Meadow Soprano went to college) and rich Yuppies, Wall Street types and Columbia faculty who "gentrified" the area buying 3 story brownstones starting in the late 1960s living in one unit and renting the other 2. (Think of Peggy in Mad Men who buys a whole building in 1968 in Season 6 in this area but the area is racially mixed, has "junkies etc" who stab her boyfriend). The area from 91st and the East River diagonally to 96th on 5th on the East side up to 116th street is "Spanish Harlem". I went to 7-12th grade on 94th st from 1978-1984 and it was NOT safe to go in Central Park or north of that diagonal line even in broad daylight. (There was an armed robbery of a small supermarket 2 blocks away from my school in 1981 with masked gunmen and hostages and when we payed softball on the 103rd street Central Park baseball diamonds as part of HS gym class we fended off thieves trying to steal our equipment as we chased them away carrying baseball bats), but it was OK to go up to 99th and Madison and 103rd and 5th since there is that long stretch of museums I noted above and Mt. Sinai Hospital runs from 96th-99th by Park and Madison

David Adler

The Museum of the City of New York is way up east, between 103rd and 104th, I believe. And always worth it.