Classic New York Movies: "You've Got Mail" and a Sweet UWS Apartment
March 20, 2008 at 4:00 PM |
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Visit our Classic NYC Movies Map to... hey, what's that sound? Sorry, we got distracted by our 1998 e-mail.
When "You've Got Mail" opened in theatres and made a jillion dollars, we were young, naive non-New Yorkers. Why wouldn't a children's book store owner (Meg Ryan) and a publishing magnate (Tom Hanks) meet on AOL and eventually fall in love?
We had a screen name, we were fairly sure how it worked. Well, the Internet has changed a lot since then, but this movie is still a prime Sunday-afternoon cable pick--and its sense of Upper West Side geography pretty sound.
Well, sound with one big exception, and it's not that the Upper West Side is full of pretty people living decent lives. The bookstore Kathleen owns, the Shop Around the Corner, doesn't exist. Why location scouts didn't bother to find another of the many, many independent children's books in the city (like Books of Wonder or the Bank Street Bookstore) is beyond us, but you can see the storefront which stood in for Kathleen's shop at 169 West 69th Street. (It sells cheese and antiques.)
Since Kathleen lives on the Upper West Side, she shops at Zabar's (80th and Broadway), gets coffee at Starbucks (the 83rd and Broadway location, according to this intrepid blogger) and takes long walks in Central Park.
Given that Kathleen and Joe (Hanks) meet as anonymous AOL users, we're not sure why Kathleen would agree to meet her online correspondent at Cafe Lalo (201 West 83rd Street), in her nabe, instead of somewhere further away from home base.
Of course, that's because we live in the Internet and are too jaded to trust anyone. Still, the cafe serves some of the most decadent, delicious-looking desserts, so maybe she had a sweet tooth. After you've gorged yourself, don't forget to head north to Riverside Park where the film's emotional final scene takes place.
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