Two years ago the famed Saturday Night Fever dance floor was sold at auction for $188,000 when the Brooklyn club where the movie was filmed, Odyssey 2001 (later called Spectrum), was closed. Just yesterday the legendary movie turned 30 and amNewYork got nostalgic looking back at the Bay Ridge kid, Tony Manero, who sought refuge on that dance floor.

Thirty years ago this weekend, a tough young kid from Bay Ridge strutted across America's movie screens and struck his finger in the air to announce a new moment in the country's culture. Disco had been bubbling in the underground for a few years before the film came out, opening the sub-culture to a mass audience. more ›

"New York City in the 1970s was the setting for Taxi Driver, Annie Hall, and Saturday Night Fever, the nightmare playground for Son of Sam and The Warriors, the proving grounds for graffiti, punk, hip-hop, and all manner of other public spectacle. Musicians, artists, and writers could subsist even in Manhattan, while immigrants from the world over were reinventing the city in their own image." Brian Berger, historian Marshall Berman and a troupe of contributers revisit the Big Apple of yesteryear in their book New York Calling. All five boroughs are documented through words and images, becoming a nostalgic collection as well as a reflection on how the city has changed. more ›

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Blender has a list of 100 Days That Changed Music, and not surprisingly a good amount of them took place in New York. Here are a few, see any missing? more ›

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Holy cow - the Daily News reports that the trademark and Internet domain for Crazy Eddie's is for sale. On eBay. And while the News notes its bid was at $16,100, it's now at $16,300. The company that owns the trademark and domain wants $800,000, which would be a truly insaaaane price. If you go to crazyeddie.com, you'll find out info about the auction, classic Crazy Eddie commercials, and the history of Crazy Eddie. And we had never seen that really long Saturday Night Fever-inspired commercial (Crazy Eddie Fever)! That was what has been missing from our life! more ›

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After all the comments on yesterday's post about books set in NYC, we got to thinking, has anyone bothered to come up with a list of all the movies set in the city? The answer, of course, is yes-- at Wikipedia, of course. What an amazing site-- it's like having a genie who's only job is to distract us with useless NYC trivia! They've probably missed a couple of movies here and there, but the list looks fairly comprehensive. Absolute, undisputable fact: the 1970s was far and away the most interesting time for NYC movies-- check these out: more ›

One of the most illustrious floors in all of movie history is going to be auctioned: The psychedelic disco floor from Saturday Night Fever has had offers of more than $80,000, according to the Daily News. As millions of people have vamped to Tony Manero's moves (one hand pointing to the sky, one pointing to the ground, hip out), they imagined themselves dancing in a Brooklyn nightclub. The nightclub, 2001 Space Odyssey, closed years ago but the owner saved the floor. The auction will be on eBay on April 1, and Gothamist hopes that some savvy NYC nightclub owner buys it for a club here, so everyone, especially the B-and-T crowd, can join in the fun. more ›

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David Hinckley in the NY Daily News complains that the American Film Institute list of the 100 Top Movie Songs is no fun because it's actually not a bad list. Gothamist would almost agree, except for the lack of songs from South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut. We feel that Come What May from Moulin Rouge (who sings that? who cares?) is just an addition to please the public (that way you can get Nicole Kidman on the show), but let's be honest here: No one is humming "I will love you until my daying day," but they are singing, "Kyle's Mom is a Big Fat Bitch" or "What Would Brian Boitano Do" or "Unclef*cker" or "Blame Canada." So, lists like this are still very crack-like because they are addictive, but they can be very bad too. more ›

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Some movies that capture New York in the 70s: Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Shaft, Mean Streets, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Saturday Night Fever, The French Connection. Episode 7 of New York: A Documentary Film focuses on New York from 1945 to today. more ›