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- A street gang known as the Warriors must fight its way from the Bronx to its home turf on Coney Island when its members are falsely accused of assassinating a respected gang leader.
- A musically gifted orphan, Evan, runs away from his orphanage and searches New York City for his birth parents. On his journey, he's taken under the wing of the Wizard, a homeless man who lives in an abandoned theater.
- A taxi driver with a penchant for conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of these theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is.
- A fast-paced reality show that follows several incredibly busy and ambitious Manhattan women. Watch as they balance envious social calendars, challenging careers, and motherhood, with the hustle and bustle of the big city all around.
- Maggie wants to have a baby, raising him on her own, but when she gets romantically involved with John, a married man, things get complicated and all the balance of Maggie's plans may collapse.
- A vengeful New York City transit cop decides to steal a trainload of subway fares. His foster brother, a fellow cop, tries to protect him.
- Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.
- A complicated New York City family discovers on one extraordinary day that although life-and family-can sometimes shock you - they can also lead to miraculous new places.
- Two sisters in a bathroom debate their different approaches to the patriarchy.
- With his unique brand of youthful storytelling Donald Glover brings down the house in his hysterical stand-up special, Weirdo.
- Unless Darren can survive New York's largest drug mogul, write a paper on Dante's "Inferno," escape three thugs chasing the wrong guy and sell fifty pills of ecstasy to make his tuition payment, he'll never date the girl of his dreams.
- After discovering the connection between a corrupt city commissioner and Colombian killers, Kojak is framed for the murder of a call girl and is prosecuted by former police detective Crocker, now an assistant D.A.
- You know him as the guy who rips everyone apart at the Comedy Central Roasts. Now watch him in his first one-hour special, Midlife Vices. Filmed in front of a raucous hometown crowd in New York City, Giraldo laments America's childhood obesity epidemic, explains why he takes umbrage with the term "happily married," and shares his favorite "only in New York" moments. Packed with unique insights only Giraldo can conjure up, Midlife Vices is sure to please.
- New Yorkers react to "The Emperor Has No Balls," one of five life-size statues of Donald Trump created by anarchist art collective Indecline. For hours, people gathered around the statue to laugh and pose for photos, while the NYC Parks Department figured out how to remove the art. Eventually, the figure was smashed and taken away. Later, the NYC Parks Department released this statement: "NYC Parks stands firmly against any unpermitted erection in city parks, no matter how small." Other statues have been installed in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cleveland and Seattle.
- The lives of three individuals, an Afghan Jungian-psychoanalyst, a party-animal-turned-nun, and a mentally disturbed young man cross paths and collide. Their experiences with belief intertwine to create a gripping story of how a mixture of faith and abuse can splinter a fragile mind. The film leads us through three stories concurrently with segments from present, past and future; dreams and surreal fantasies. Adam tries to lead a normal life as a landscaper, yet he cannot escape his troubled and tormented past. Dev, Adam's best friend convinces him to rectify his troubled past and questions of faith through violence or even murder. Mary was a party-girl in the past, until her experience with a GHB (liquid ecstasy) overdose leads her to a spiritual awakening. Now she has joined the church as a nun in the community where Adam and Dr. Azaad live. Dr. Azaad, one of Adam's landscaping clients, embodies the two themes of the film. As a psychologist, he notices symptoms of Adam's psychopathology and reaches out to him. As a man of faith, he and his family practice Islam and try to live good Muslim lives.
- "This scene shows a crowd of newsboys running to meet the 'World' newspaper delivery wagon, and falling back to the point of distribution. There is a mad scramble for papers, and fight between two of the gamins."
- An Irishman's surprise visit to his NYC girlfriend results in being snubbed, then inadvertently involved with a conniving, thieving fun loving female.
- Time-lapse photography is used to show the manual dismantling and demolition of New York's Star Theatre over a period of about 30 days.
- "This is a very remarkable picture, showing Union Square, New York City, during the great March blizzard of 1899. The camera was stationed at the corner of Broadway and Fourteenth Street, and was swept in almost a complete circle, showing the tremendous drifts of snow and the blockade at 'Dead Man's Curve' in Fourteenth Street. This picture was taken during the busiest time of the day, and shows to what extent New York City was tied up by this tremendous fall of snow."
- How far would you go to pursue your passion? At 87 years old, Hank Virgona commutes to his Union Square studio six days a week and makes art. Despite poor health, cancer, lack of revenue and obscurity as an artist, Hank is unrelenting in his quest to understand how life and art are the same.
- The New York 9/11 Truth Movement tries to expose the lies and corruption of various topics that are not being discussed and twisted by mainstream media.
- A scene at "Death Curve."
- A surreal relationship develops between a nun and a priest when she can no longer control her sexual fantasies.
- A curmudgeonly recent immigrant from India tries to study for an important exam while on the job.
- A woman looking for her blind date
- A woman and man meet for a blind date that does not end well
- A man reading his newspaper at New York Union Square notices the news and lefts his newspaper and his coffee on the banch. A boy comes and sits on the same banch and notices the news too, and left in a hurry way. Then a guy comes with the same newspaper and coffee. He got angry. He throws the newspaper and coffee which he found on the banch to the wastebasket. When he opens his newspaper he left in a hurry way like them. Finally, the first man comes back like he was not on time and missed something. He sits on the banch, drinks coffee of the other guy as it is his coffee and reads newspaper like it belongs to him.
- A modern-day Marie Antoinette reflected through the eyes of the ones closest to her, the ones that peeked behind the curtain.
- A womanizer's carefully constructed web of lies comes crashing down when his mistress threatens to tell his wife about his new girlfriend.
- Two pairs of shoes fall in love in the city.
- This short film deals with the troubles of mental illness.
- Mr. Brunelli, a roomer at a boarding house, has caught the eye of Kate, the daughter of the woman who owns the house. Kate knows her mother, who doesn't want her daughter to have anything to do with her tenants, will disapprove of Mr. Brunelli, but she soon discovers that Mr. Brunelli isn't quite who she thinks he is.
- May Beetle is a short story of romance between a guy and girl who bump in to each other on a fateful day in Manhattan. What seems like boy meets girl story, and spending a day visiting different places in the city has more to it than one might think.
- My Space Rants! filmed over 600 New Yorkers in five days expressing their thoughts, gripes and opinions on any topic they chose from their boyfriends and mothers to the environment and global warming. The one-minute rants were then posted in near real time on MySpace where participants could add comments, share the videos with friends to encourage them to create and post their own rants. Scarpa's theme of participants not only as consumers but as content creators was an integral part the project. The series has garnered over 10 million viewers to date.
- Connie walks alone along the New York sidewalks, trying to come to terms with something we all have to face sooner or later: the final goodbye to certain memories.
- During a flight layover, a young man visits his hometown of New York City for the first time since the tragic events of 9/11 and tries to reconnect and reflect upon everything he has left behind. He seizes every moment in the city he eventually realizes he has never lost.
- In a short portrait piece, the filmmaker discusses her struggle to classify herself along racial lines, coming from a white mother and a black father. She questions identity, her perception of race, and what that means in reference to people who are mixed. Through explorations of her own sometimes unexpressed sentiments of race, 'shocking' performance art (including a 'literal visual representation' of a half black, half white individual), and candid moments of awareness, she uncovers an identity she did not completely know she already had accepted.
- A young man has given up on life as he is stuck in his own private hell. He kills himself, however finds the afterlife is just his original life stuck on repeat.
- Subconsciously Harry derives a sense of serenity from his predictable, routine activities, and tends to develop emotional bonds with what & whom he perceives to be permanent fixtures in his life. One day an unpredictable, random change to a part of his routine stirs up strong emotions in him, and sends him scurrying elsewhere in search of predictability and tranquility. There is a bit of Harry in every one of us. As the saying goes - No surprise is a good surprise!
- Set upon by monsters in the form of friends, beasts and heckling deli meat, Agny's paranoia quickly drives her from a New York City deli to find sanctuary in Union Square where she encounters her muse.
- Moira Johnston is an activist around Union Square. She explains her past and her Irish roots during her routine walk around Union Square.
- A man, having an Heart attack in the park, seek for help. Only the lonely girl at the bench can help him.
- Two people who fall in love over the Internet and decide to meet at Union Square in New York but all does not go according to plan and things go awry.
- A stoner has missed some payments, and his cell phone provider will stop at nothing to receive due compensation.