New York Film Locations



No Way to Treat a Lady (1968)

Last Updated: Aug 2023

Christopher Gill (Rod Steiger) is a psychotic killer who uses various disguises to trick and strangle his victims. Moe Brummel is a single and harassed New York City police detective who starts to get phone calls from the strangler and builds a strange alliance as a result. Kate Palmer (Lee Remick) is a swinging, hip tour guide who witnesses the strangler leaving her dead neighbor's apartment and sets her sights on the detective. Moe's live-in mother wishes her son would be a successful Jewish doctor like his big brother.


Police Headquarters, 240 Centre Street and Broome Street, Manhattan.
 

The Old Police Headquarters

One of the finest buildings in all New York is also one of the least-appreciated and most forgotten. The old Police Headquarters at No. 240 Centre Street was built in 1909 on a triangular lot in what was then solidly Little Italy. Arguably, it is today located in the ever-expanding Chinatown, but real estate brokers usually describe its location non-ethnically as Soho, just on the cusp of the area which is increasingly (and most irritatingly) known as NoLIta, ‘North of Little Italy’.

From the basement shooting range to the rooftop observation deck, the building was designed in the monumental Beaux-Arts style by the firm of Hoppin & Koen, “to impress both the officer and the prisoner with the majesty of the law.” The New York Times wrote that “its grandeur contrasted utterly with the little buildings and crooked streets around it.”

The older old Police Headquarters, where reformer Teddy Roosevelt held court as Police Commissioner, was located nearby on Mulberry Street and when the nerve center of the N.Y.P.D. shifted to Centre St. btw Broome and Grand, the gun shops, cop saloons, and police reporters followed suit. One restaurant across the street was simply called ‘Headquarters’. With its oak bar and ceiling of carved wood, the ‘Headquarters’ restaurant became a particular favourite among the higher brass of the N.Y.P.D. According to popular lore, a tunnel was actually constructed connecting the restaurant with the actualy Police HQ, in which a number of the Boys in Blue used to enjoy a drink during the trying days of Prohibition.

 

East 72nd Street (btw Park Avenue and Lexington Avenue) Manhattan.
 

 

Kate Palmer's Apartment, 126 East 72nd Street and Park Avenue, Manhattan.
 

 

Joe Allen, 326 West 46th Street and 8th Avenue, Manhattan.
 

 

Sardi's Restaurant, 234 West 44th Street and 7th Avenue, Manhattan.
 

 

Lincoln Center, Columbus Avenue (btw West 63rd and 64th Streets) Manhattan.
 

 



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