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Pre-Giuliani Dirty Old New York

Films made in NYC before Rudy Giuliani became mayor in 1994.

Only films predominantly set in/about NYC and not films shot on sets or using other cities to portray New York.

All genres, including documentary, shorts and avant-garde work. In chronological order.

Block or Report
  • Herald Square
  • Shooting the Chutes
  • New York, Broadway and Wall Street
  • New York, Whitehall Street
  • New York: Broadway at Union Square
  • New York, Brooklyn Bridge
  • The Burglar on the Roof
  • In the Grip of the Blizzard
  • Panorama from the Tower of the Brooklyn Bridge
  • Skating in Central Park
  • Automobile Parade
  • Buffalo Bill's Wild West Parade
  • Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre
  • What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City
  • New York City in a Blizzard
  • Skyscrapers of New York City, from the North River
  • At the Foot of the Flatiron
  • How a French Nobleman Got a Wife Through the 'New York Herald' Personal Columns
  • New York Subway
  • Coney Island at Night
  • The Life of an American Policeman
  • New York 1911
  • At Coney Island
  • The Regeneration
  • One Touch of Nature
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • While New York Sleeps
  • Manhatta
  • Little Old New York
  • The Rag Man
  • The Jazz Singer
  • Twenty-Four Dollar Island
  • The Crowd
  • Speedy
  • Lights of New York
  • The Cameraman
  • Skyscraper Symphony
  • Double Whoopee
  • Jazz Heaven
  • Five and Ten
  • The Struggle
  • Harlem Is Heaven
  • Street of Women
  • Skyscraper Souls
  • Big City Blues
  • They Call It Sin
  • The Half-Naked Truth
  • King Kong
  • Easy Living
  • Big City
  • Charlie Chan on Broadway
  • Nothing Sacred
  • Moon Over Harlem
  • Adventure in the Bronx
  • Murder on Lenox Avenue
  • This Is the Bowery
  • I Wake Up Screaming
  • Lights Fantastic
  • The Big Street
  • Whistling in Brooklyn
  • The House on 92nd Street
  • Week-End at the Waldorf
  • An Angel Comes To Brooklyn
  • The Lost Weekend
  • The Dark Corner
  • Dead Reckoning
  • Boomerang!
  • Miracle on 34th Street
  • Kiss of Death
  • The Unsuspected
  • Gentleman's Agreement
  • In the Street
  • The Naked City
  • Weegee's New York
  • Close-Up
  • Cry of the City
  • Miracle in Harlem
  • Force of Evil
  • Jigsaw
  • The Window
  • House of Strangers
  • Port of New York
  • On the Town
  • Side Street
  • Souls of Sin
  • The Tattooed Stranger
  • Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town
  • Guilty Bystander
  • Johnny One-Eye
  • So Young, So Bad
  • Where the Sidewalk Ends
  • The Sleeping City
  • The Killer That Stalked New York
  • All About Eve
  • Fourteen Hours
  • I Can Get It for You Wholesale
  • Teresa
  • Day of the Fight
  • The People Against O'Hara
  • Detective Story