A Vocation in Location

I used to be a big fan of this blog called Scouting New York, which was run by this film-location scout who’d pinpoint and document famous locations from a wide array of films and point out weird urban anomalies and curious facts. For whatever reason — I believe it’s because he moved to another city — Scouting New York stopped updating in 2015, and I was sad to see it end. Regardless, the site is still up, so I encourage anyone with an interest in that sort of thing to go check it out.

I am happy to report, however, that a (relatively) new obsessively eagle-eyed cinephile has risen to the challenge to pick up where Scouting New York left off. Launched, evidently, in 2016, the straightforwardly titled NYC in Film seeks to accomplish much the same mission, and its attention to slavish detail is encouraging and impressive, not at all unlike the exacting eye for architectural minutia and fine-toothed scrutiny of my pal Bob Egan of PopSpots NYC.

I’d noticed some repeat visits to an old post of mine from 2018 regarding the former site of Disc-O-Mat, a record store I frequented in the very early `80s. Turns out, said post was of some use to NYC in Film, who reference while in the process of divining specific locations from the 1986 thriller, “F/X” staring Aussie Bryan Brown.

I’m late, of course, but I’m glad to welcome NYC in Film into the NYC blogosphere, such as it is — he even takes on my favorite and oft-cited film of all time, “After Hours.”