Fictional Architecture of Manhattan

The Fictional Architecture of Manhattan

New York has been the setting of many books, movies, and television shows. Many movies and shows have been filmed, at least in part, at the locations where they were set. This allows you to go to a place that you have never visited before while feeling as if it is a familiar place and you have been there many times. You feel as if the boundary between reality and fantasy had become somewhat slippery. Jung would probably blame this on the Collective Unconscious. One thing that is complete fantasy, though, is the vast sizes of the apartments inhabited by situation comedy characters.

Here we go, roughly north to south in Manhattan: