It happens a lot in New York - you're taking your bus home, and traffic slows to a crawl or gets diverted because they're making another movie.  We don't enjoy the process much, but we do love to see the movies.  So here are my favorites.

Breakfast at Tiffany's I still love this movie - Audrey Hepburn at her best.  But, folks, please know that they don't serve breakfast at Tiffany's!  It's a jewelry store, for Pete's sake!  (In the movie she takes a cab to Tiffany's and eats her breakfast pastry gazing in the windows.)  When I want to feel good, I often go look at Tiffany's windows, too - they're beautiful and creative.

Working Girl Good movie - with the best closing credits ever.  As Melanie Griffith, in her brand-new office, tells her friend Joan Cusack that she has finally "made it," the camera looks through the window at her, then zooms back and back, slowly revealing the skyscrapers of lower Manhattan, including - Yes!! - the twin towers of the World Trade Center, all to the triumphant voice of Carly Simon singing "All the Rivers Run."  I love the fact that re-runs of this movie (made in 1988) don't try to cut the World Trade Center out and pretend it never existed, as so many do.  Plus the movie  reminds everyone that people actually live in Staten Island.

Moonstruck and Saturday Night Fever are both movies about Brooklyn, with Manhattan as the dream across the river.  I love both of them!

And I know this is TV, not movies, but remember Northern Exposure?  When Joel was driven to seek out the Jeweled City of the North, and it turned out to be New York, magically transported to within walking distance from the Alaskan wilderness?  Great scene.

Crocodile Dundee While everyone thinks of this as an Australian movie, it's really about discovering New York and its people.  And that bar really exists, at 6th Street and Avenue B.  It's a nice place, if a bit of a dive.  (It also stood in as the bar in The Verdict.)

While I'm on the subject of Crocodile Dundee, there's something that always bugs New Yorkers - when the characters turn a corner and they're in another part of town altogether.  In Crocodile Dundee, for example, he comes out of the Plaza Hotel (current being turned into condos - gulp!), and asks how to get to the subway.  And his friend the doorman directs him down the street to Columbus Circle - when there's a subway stop directly under the Plaza! I know it's literary (media?) license - the other subway stop fitted the needs of the film - but it still bugs me.

And then there's the apartments.  In Superman, the first of the Christopher Reeve movies, Lois Lane lives in a magnificent penthouse.  She's a reporter, for Pete's sake - working for what looks a lot like the "Daily News" - and she lives in an apartment fit for Donald Trump!

King Kong, old and new.  Both of them brilliant.  Just thinking about the Empire State Building scene in Peter Jackson's version makes me grab for the arms of my chair so I don't fall hundreds of feet.  How did he give 2-dimensional film such incredible depth that it gives you vertigo sitting in a desk chair?

Everything made by Woody Allen (well, almost everything) and Martin Scorsese, especially Annie Hall and Taxi Driver.

One of the spookiest movies ever made - Rosemary's Baby. The dark, creepy building that provided the location was The Dakota (now best known as the building where John Lennon died).  Since the movie was made, The Dakota has been cleaned up - it's still Gothic, but light-colored with darker trim.  It's a long way from the dark, gloomy towers I remember from when I lived a block away, many years ago.