Anyone been to Needle park?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Panic in Needle Park
Last_Entrance — 20 years ago(January 22, 2006 04:02 AM)
Its real nice now, dusn't look familiar though! its changed alot!
As far back as I can remember I always wanted to be a gangster- Henry Hill
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nadia_snow — 20 years ago(January 25, 2006 09:09 PM)
yes its sunny bright full of children playing sports and picnics and lots of soccer. where have all the junkies gone? central park is really peaceful though especially on the side thats not polluted with hundreds of people
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Bacalao2929 — 17 years ago(May 03, 2008 10:48 AM)
It is not Central Park- it is a little park that was located between 72 & Bway- since the movie 40 years ago, they have cleaned up the area and put up a new subway station where the scences or the film needle park were filmed,- also remember that the term needle park, wasnt just that location but used for any park were junkies hung out in the city, I ve heard more than one park called needle park in my life-
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BlondeIsBetter — 17 years ago(January 21, 2009 04:28 PM)
Yes, I live about 2 blocks away from Needle Park! It is SO clean and nice. Very pretty statue and flowers, a subway station, newstand
You'd never know. The upper west side of NYC is SO clean and family oriented. The most dangerous thing about the upper west side is getting run over by a stroller!! -
ultravio13 — 9 years ago(February 08, 2017 02:00 PM)
The area portrayed as needle park in the film is still there. They have upgraded it, and put in new benches, but its still recognizable. It's on 71 st. and Broadway.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/71st+and+broadway+nyc/@40.7778582,-73.9819636,3a,75y,180h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbXFggxy1OGaBBJFQ3CA48Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x1f265e9607b4960d!6m1!1e1 -
rap53 — 16 years ago(February 04, 2010 04:22 PM)
The area was full of welfare hotels. We called that place needle park, even before the movie. But there many middle-class and upper-class artsy types as well. A candy-store owner 4 blocks north tried to molest me in the basement of his store in the late 60's.