It’s a clip warp!
In caller weeks, New York City has gone backmost decades arsenic 2 awesome play pieces person been shooting astir town.
“Marty Supreme,” directed by Josh Safdie (“Uncut Gems”), is group successful nan 1950s and stars Timothée Chalamet arsenic a ping pong champion. Gwyneth Paltrow plays his emotion interest.
The streets of nan Lower and Upper East Side were filled pinch aged cars and vintage signage for nan film, which is somewhat inspired by nan existent life of ping pong champ Marty Reisman.
“Caught Stealing” showcases a much caller past. The film, from “The Whale” head Darren Aronofsky, stars Austin Butler arsenic an alcoholic erstwhile shot subordinate who becomes entangled successful nan 1990s crime underworld. Griffin Dunne, Liev Schreiber and Zoë Kravitz are besides successful nan cast.
The East Village was restored to its gritty ’90s glory for nan shoot, pinch aged favorites specified arsenic Kim’s Video and Benny Burritos resurrected from nan dead.
“Doing play [pieces] in New york is simply a awesome experience, you’re capable to recapture immoderate of nan magic that is nan rich | history of New York City,” Aaron Hurvitz, a location scout who worked connected some films, told The Post.
Have a look astatine immoderate cardinal locations.
Caught Stealing
443 E. 6th St., East Village
This mini storefront was dressed to look for illustration a portion associated called Neno’s Pizza, possibly a reference to nan precocious Nino’s Pizza, a beloved spot connected Avenue A and St. Mark’s Place that closed successful 2012. The existent 6th Street storefront was location to nan tiny-but-influential cocktail barroom Amor y Amargo from 2011 until nan extremity of 2023, erstwhile it moved to a larger abstraction nearby. A barroom called All Hands, from immoderate of nan aforesaid squad arsenic Amor y Amargo, is group to unfastened location astatine immoderate point.
Southwest area of Avenue A and 6th Street, East Village
The creation squad recreated nan beloved Mexican associated Benny’s Burritos and its iconic reddish awnings connected its original Avenue A location.
It was a favourite spot for reasonably priced burritos and margaritas that occupied nan area for 26 years, earlier closing successful 2014. It’s presently nan tract of a bodega called Healthy Choice Foods Market pinch a sleek achromatic exterior. The shop had nary interaction pinch nan actors while filming, and regulars complained astir nan sprout interfering pinch their greeting java run.
14 Ave. A., East Village
In nan film, Butler’s characteristic bartends astatine a watering spread called Paul’s Bar astatine this address.
In existent life, it’s presently location to nan Double Down Saloon, a dive that dates backmost to 2006. It’s been nan group for galore euphony videos and commercials, but nan movie marked nan first clip nan full barroom was bought retired for a production.
To make it look much for illustration a 90s hang, nan accumulation squad made respective adjustments, including removing a tv and lotto machine.
“They took distant our technology,” a bartender told The Post.
85 Avenue A
The original Kim’s Video location was recreated for nan film, overmuch to nan astonishment of erstwhile labor of nan beloved video store.
“[I] was delighted and amazed erstwhile photos of it began popping up,” Alex Ross Perry, a erstwhile Kim’s worker who runs its Instagram account, told The Post.
Marty Supreme
94 Orchard St., Lower East Side
This reside is nan existent location for nan Moscot eyewear flagship store, but for nan movie it was dressed to look arsenic 94 Rivington St., which was nan original location of nan spectacles institution, erstwhile it was opened by Hyman Moscot successful 1915.
In 2021, nan flagship moved from Rivington, wherever it rented abstraction for 106 years, to 94 Orchard Street aft nan Moscot family bought nan building.
When nan movie was shooting successful beforehand of nan store, it was business arsenic accustomed inside.
“We were locked successful nan shop, truthful we couldn’t moreover spot what was going connected outside,” a Moscot employee told The Post. “All of nan businesses were operating — we didn’t person immoderate relationship pinch nan film.”
1057 Lexington Ave., Upper East Side
Orsay edifice has called this reside location since 2000, but its anachronistic look makes it look for illustration it’s been location overmuch longer — truthful overmuch truthful that fewer modifications were made to nan exterior for nan shoot, prevention for bringing successful immoderate aged autos.
“The cars were props,” an worker of nan French bistro told The Post. But “the awning, nan façade, nan original windows, nan doors, everything [else] is original to our building.”
135 Orchard St., Lower East Side
The sprout remade respective Orchard Street storefronts. Altman Luggage astatine 135 Orchard was changed to a fictional clothing shop called Adato Bros., while an quiet storefront astatine 137 became Norkin Shoes.
Altman Luggage first opened successful 1920, and head Emmett Adames told The Post that it’s been utilized for respective films, including nan 1984 Sergio Leone Western “Once Upon a Time successful America.”