Rear Window (1954)
What Hitchcock's masterpiece tells us about New York, then and now
An updated version of a 2008 post about this eternal classic.
The Siren spent a number of her early New York years in a rundown apartment on the fuzzy border between Harlem and Morningside Heights. Everything about it was ramshackle, including the wiring, and our doubts about whether the outlets could stand up to an air conditioner meant I spent several …