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Red Hook On Screen: From Sonny Corleone to Modern Movie Mights
A Brooklyn couple recalls Red Hook’s rise as a film location from 1960s Patty Duke and Kojak shoots to 1990s Broadway stars. They recall Burt Reynolds, Bruce Willis, and Liam Neeson on Luquer, Columbia, Hicks streets, and the broader shift from city to suburb in TV and movie making.
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Sonny Corleone
Jones Beach
Red Hook
Suburbia
Chelsea
New York
Hollywood
Silver Cup
Bread Factory
Long Island City
Steiner Studios
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Brooklyn Heights
Brooklyn
the Heights
Patty Duke
Natalie
Greenwich Village
Smith & 9Th Street
Hicks and
Summit Streets
Kojak
Bald and Mighty Telly Savalas
St. Stephen’s Church
Burt Reynolds
Raquel Welch
Shamus
Dyan Cannon
Boston
9Th Street
Gowanus Bridge
Cosmopolitan Magazine
Henry and
Sackett Streets
Cammercri Bakery
Nicholas Cage
Cher
Hudson Hawk
Bruce Willis
Battery Tunnel
Hamilton Avenue
Liam Neeson
Columbia Street
Luquer
Carroll Gardens
Cobble Hill