11/18/2023 0 Comments Nyc billiards barThe premises now houses Bricco, an Italian restaurant, but you can still recognise the twin brick arches of its frontage. The pair walk past what was the Parisien restaurant, 304 West 56th Street, which is where Eddie later breaks the news to her that he’s off to Kentucky for a while. The liquor store where Eddie buys a bottle of Scotch as he heads back to her place stood on the northeast corner of 56th Street and 8th Avenue. Sarah’s neighbourhood is Hell’s Kitchen, on West 56th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues. ![]() The terminal was demolished along with the rail station in 1963. The ‘café’ was built specifically for the film and was so convincing that hungry travellers would sometimes wander onto the set and wait to be served. The seriously dodgy-looking ‘Arthur’s Pool Hall’, where Eddie discovers pool sharks are not welcome and gets his thumbs broken, was on West 48th Street at Pier 88, another area that’s since been completely redeveloped.Įddie meets Sarah ( Piper Laurie), in Manhattan’s sleek deco Greyhound Bus Terminal alongside the old Penn Station. Gone too is the other pool hall featured, McGirr's Billiard Academy, which occupied the basement of 709 Eighth Avenue at West 45th Street, Midtown Manhattan. The hotel, which is where Joe Buck ( Jon Voight) stayed on his arrival in New York in Midnight Cowboy, was demolished in 1972. The epic pool game between Fast Eddie and Minnesota Fats ( Jackie Gleason) was filmed in the old Ames Billiard Academy, a second-floor loft in the Claridge Hotel on West 44th Street, at Seventh Avenue, in Times Square, which was deliberately scruffed down to look more down-at-heel than it actually was. The block that contained the bar-pool hall has been replaced by a glumly featureless factory, but you can still see the unmistakable building which now houses the Kawasaki Railcar company in the background. ![]() That stretch of road is now a pedestrian alleyway. The prologue’s ‘Homestead Bar & Grill’, “en route to Pittsburgh”, where ‘Fast’ Eddie Felson ( Paul Newman) and Charlie ( Myron McCormick) con the locals with a seemingly unrepeatable trick shot, stood on Wells Avenue west of Warburton Avenue toward Woodworth Avenue in Yonkers, on the Hudson River a few miles north of Manhattan. The film is set and, unusually for the time, filmed around New York but sad to say, there’s very little left of the actual filming sites. It’s also credited with the first use of the word ‘bastard’ in a Hollywood movie. With a clutch of nominated performances, Oscar-winning monochrome photography, full-on widescreen and authentic locations, The Hustler was pretty groundbreaking.Įven the pre-credits sequence, which sets up the whole pool scam was an unusual feature.
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