We noticed that there were permits for the cable production of The Knick up on Lenox Avenue's historic District in Mount Morris Park and a Bespoke reader sent in a couple of live photos. The Steven Soderbergh production stars Clive Owens and is based on New York's Knickerbocker Hospital circa 1900. Lower Lenox Avenue is one of the most breathtaking and intact historic districts in the city so period dramas such as Boardwalk Empire have also used the neighborhood for filmng.
We saw notices for filming on Tue along Edgecombe above Jackie Robinson Park.
ReplyDeleteThis should be interesting but aren't they in the wrong nabe. Knickerbocker Hospital was on West 130th & Convent Avenue. The Building is still there. Before Ed Koch closed it they called it Arthur Logan Memorial Hospital after the doctor that took care of Billy Strayhorn & Duke Ellington. Arthur Logan's son still lives down on West 80th Street.
ReplyDeleteLove these period costumes and it does credit to the magnificent side streets of Mount Morris Park District.
ReplyDeleteQuick question...does anybody know if there is any connection with the Knickerbocker Hospital and Doctor's Row, 122nd between Lenox & ACP?
ReplyDeleteI know for certain that some of the physicians and surgeons from Doctor's Row did have admitting privileges at Mt. Morris General Hospital which was on 121st & Mt. Morris Park West. And it is likely that those same physicians & surgeons would have had admitting privileges at Knickerboker and Sydenham once they opened up to black professionals in the late 1940's.
ReplyDeleteThanks Greg!
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