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Hello ladies and gentlemen; boys and girls. My name is Jimmy Breslin. I'm a writer. I write about New York, the city of my birth where I've lived and worked all my life; the city that I love and hate both equally. Today, things are much different. Business is booming up, up, and up. Crime is down, down, down. Homicides are the lowest it's been since 1961. Well, it wasn't always like this. This film is about a different time; a different place; the good old days; the hot, blistering summer of 1977. There are 8 million stories in the naked city, and this was one of them
Hello ladies and gentlemen; boys and girls. My name is Jimmy Breslin. I'm a writer. I write about New York, the city of my birth where I've lived and worked all my life; the city that I love and hate both equally. Today, things are much different. Business is booming up, up, and up. Crime is down, down, down. Homicides are the lowest it's been since 1961. Well, it wasn't always like this. This film is about a different time; a different place; the good old days; the hot, blistering summer of 1977. There are 8 million stories in the naked city, and this was one of them
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Elvis Presley died
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7 were arrested during the blackout
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with damage going into the hundreds of millions
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To no one's surprise most of the destruction
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took place in Brooklyn Harlem and the South Bronx
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'77 was also one of the hottest summers in memory in New York City
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New York the city that I love and hate equally
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There are eight million stories in the Naked City
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and this was one of them
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Movie Summary
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
