As a big fan of Escape from New York (and many other films shot in the Big Apple) I was quite excited recently to visit New York for a short break and see some of the locations used from some of my favourite movies.

One location I visited was from the film Ghostbusters, the fire station on the corner of corner of Varick and Moore in Tribeca. The fire station isn’t one of the usual sightseeing spots in NY, such as the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building, but it’s no less spectacular and meaningful. There’s even a sign from Ghostbusters 2 inside the building on the wall.

While I was there I also visited the scene of the World Trade Center, where Snake landed near the beginning of EFNY. That was pretty eerie.

One gripe I did have with New York however was the hotel we stayed at. Even though it was just off Park Lane (which admittedly could mean anywhere) the rooms were extremely small. The rooms were so small in fact that they didn’t even have their own bathrooms – these were shared by everyone on the floor.

That’s perhaps the main difference between the UK and New York; whereas in NY everyone is living on top of each other and space is at a premium, in many areas in the UK you can find hotels with rooms the size of banquet halls. Indeed, in some of the more traditional areas of the UK, such as in Oxfordshire and Cambridgeshire, you’ll find hotel rooms that are in keeping with the traditional ideas of Britain. Some Cambridge hotels that I’ve stayed in for example put our hotel in New York to shame.

Of course, Snake Plissken never visited Cambridge… he went to Cleveland.

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