Many thanks to NBC Universal, New Line Cinema, Time Warner, Unicorn Partners, and Viacom, and to Ed Goldberg, Peter Lloyd and Terry Lundgren at Federated Department Stores for their generous support of our 40th anniversary.

Thanks to Arick Wierson, Amy Palmer, Marta Masferrer and the crew at NYC TV for their incredible work on the “Made in NY” segments on NY 360, and to Jeff Zucker, Frank Comerford and the entire WNBC news department for partnering with us to spread the word about this historic milestone.

Major thanks to the ingenious team at Deutsch, which donated their services in designing the Anniversary section of nyc.gov/film and innovative print and interactive maps of locations made famous on film.

Special thanks to our friends at NYC TV and to @radical.media, Kevin Breslin and his team, Ernest Lupinacci, Paramount Pictures, Francis Ford Coppola, James Caan, Alex Halpern at The Post Factory and Kodak for their support of our public service announcement campaign in conjunction with our 40th anniversary.

And many thanks to all of the cultural organizations which are dedicating programming which will allow New Yorkers to learn about and celebrate the rich history of entertainment production in New York City: the AIC-Cypher Salon, Apollo Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Center for Communication, Coney Island Film Festival, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Gotham Center for NYC History, International Center of Photography, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Museum of the Moving Image, Museum of Television and Radio, The New York Public Library, New York University, Queens College’s Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens Museum of Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Tribeca Cinemas, and to Allie Kleva at the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting for coordinating programming in conjunction with these institutions.

Acknowledgments on Scenes from the City
First and foremost, we would like to thank Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg for fostering a creative, entrepreneurial environment in which to work, and for giving the Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting the chance to make a difference.

The earliest proposals for this book emerged from conversations with Jon Kamen at @radical.media (whose talented team created the logo design for our "Made in NY" program and for the Mayor's Office itself). Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, a dedicated, civic-minded New Yorker, was also crucial in getting this project off the ground. We thank them both enormously for their advice, creative spirit, and support.

At the Mayor's Office, project manager Kara Alaimo helped to keep the book focused and on schedule, and brought her editorial skills, dedication, and attention to detail to its successful completion. Ryan Rumage provided crucial behind-the-scenes support in his typically conscientious fashion. Our research consultant Patrick Ainslie was always willing to go the extra mile to make sure that we ended up with our first choice of images. And Dan Vatsky, our other research associate, worked diligently to help locate and keep track of hundreds of images in connection with the book. At the New York City Law Department, Katherine Winningham proved invaluable for her exceptional counsel, speed-of-light responses and late-night work on this project. Many, many thanks to them all.

Charles Miers, the publisher of Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., shared our vision and excitement for this book from the moment we proposed it, and was unfazed by the tight schedule that its production would entail. Leah Whisler, our editor, worked long hours and many late nights to make sure it all came together in the end. The book literally would not have been possible without them, and we deeply appreciate everything they have done to make it a success.

At Pentagram, Michael Beirut and Armin Vit developed and executed the book's inspired and elegant design with the highest degree of professionalism and dedication. Our debt to them is immense.

The Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting has undergone a dramatic transformation over the past three years, in no small part thanks to the expertise and dedication of Deputy Commissioner John Battista and Associate Commissioner Julianne Cho. We would also like to recognize the efforts of Skip Piscitelli, the city's director of state legislative affairs, whose ongoing support and attention to detail led to the swift passage of the tax credit which enhanced the "Made in NY" program.

Our heartfelt thanks go to Ingrid Bernstein for her extraordinary patience and support while this book was being edited, to Lydia Wills at the Paradigm agency for her sage and thoughtful assistance on business and publishing matters, to Eliot R. Brown for carefully combing the completed text for technical errors, and to Jeffrey Keiler at Outpost Digital, who pulled last-minute screen grabs with a smile. Howard and Ron Mandelbaum at Photofest not only provided many of the unusual images in the book, but gave special commercial consideration to the project, which we appreciate greatly.

Many extraordinary individuals in the film industry and city government gave us their valuable time for interviews—which proved so crucial an element of this book—and we wish to salute them here: David Blake, Barry Gottehrer, Brian Hamill, Mary Harron, Adam Holender, Jay Kriegel, Joy Flink Manhoff, Sol Negrin, Molly Ringwald, Abe Schrager, Mary I. Vogt, Jennifer Westfeldt, and Dick Wolf. Thanks to John Amman at the International Guild of Cinematographers and Matt Miller at the Association of Independent Commercial Producers for their efforts to connect us with sources for interviews and images.

We owe special thanks to Martin Scorsese and Nora Ephron for their extraordinary contributions to this book. And great thanks as well to Woody Allen and Sarah Allentuch for allowing us access to images from Mr. Allen's archives.

The images in this book could not have been located, assembled, and licensed without the efforts and hard work of many archivists and stills licensing staff members at motion picture studios, television networks, photo and advertising agencies, and other sources, and we would like to take the opportunity to thank them all individually: At @radical.media, Jon Kamen, Geoff Reinhard, and India Hammer. At IDP Films, Kristi Avram and Greg Johnson. At Paramount, Brian Palagallo. At Disney, Margaret Adamic. At Nike, Keli Richardson. At HBO, Suzanne Quadara, James John Kerigan, and Tobe Becker. At MGM, Barry Dagestino, Jose Simental, Debbie Takami, Maggie Adams, and Sue Peck. At Universal Studios, Roni Lubiner, Cindy Chang, and Diedre Thieman. At Columbia TriStar/Sony, Margarita Diaz, Monique Diaz, and Gilbert Emralino. At CBS, Nancy Eichenbaum. At Twentieth Century-Fox, Andy Bandit and Rob Esterla. At Warner Bros.,Julie Heath, Darlene Grodske, and Jeff Briggs. At New Line Cinema, Robin Zlatin, Hellene Cornell, and Amy Rivera. At Miramax, Julie Daccord, Amy Rocen, and Lori Shamah. At the Weinstein Company, Gil Torres, and Tucker Christon. At the American Museum of the Moving Image, Megan Forbes. At the Sesame Workshop, Maria Maiurro. At Marvel Entertainment, Carol Platt. And at the Everett Collection, Ron Harvey, Joan Moore, and Eva Povzea. We would like to thank David Lee for helping us locate his image from Mo' Better Blues, Jonathan Sanger and Neal Preston for their help with images from The Producers and Vanilla Sky, Anadil Hossain for her help with the images from Kal Ho Naa Ho, and Richard I. Leher and Randy Skinner for their assistance in licensing the images from the Rolling Stones' "Love is Strong" video. Our apologies in advance to anyone we have inadvertently omitted from this list.

And finally, our warmest appreciation to the entertainment companies and cultural institutions that very generously donated images from their collections to help make this project possible: the American Museum of the Moving Image, Columbia Tri-Star/Sony Pictures Entertainment, Disney, Dharma Productions, Getty Images, HBO, IDP Films, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Miramax Film Corp., NBC Universal, New Line Cinema, Nike, Paramount, @radical.media, Sesame Street Workshop, Shining Excalibur Films, TVWA/CHIAT/DAY, Twentieth Century-Fox, Warner Bros., and the Weinstein Company. We cannot express how grateful we are for your help and support.

Katherine Oliver and James Sanders
New York City, June 2006