Where was billy joels uptown girl video shot

Now we're back to the video.The band emerge from the elevator at the recording studio. where Richie Cannata, the sax player, gets up and joins them.ДЄnd in a wider hot, here's Liberty DeVitto, Doug Stegmeyer, Billy, and Richie Cannata - just a couple of guys from the block - heading for the subway. Walking back to the street corner, here are the steps (Google Street View at '308 West 17th Street, New York, NY). He's the man who told me about the former Port Authority bus station down the street (so thanks!).ДЄnd the park with Billy in it, from the songbook to 52nd Street. (I wondered where the subway entrance had gone to, but I later spoke to a man who owned a clothing shop on the corner right next to it, and he told me they had shut it closed years ago. I also saw that there was a park right next to the building, so I knew I had found the spot. Soon I came to this building, at 17th Street, and upon closer inspection, I saw that the large concrete dragons over the stairway matched up with the ones in the video (see next photo). After that I started at 8th Avenue and 14th Street and scanned slowly up the avenue. I first checked the subway stairs at 50th and Eighth since it was close to 52nd Street. I knew the set-up up would be: an avenue, a building, then a park, so I 'flew' up 6th and 8th Avenue using Bing Bird's Eye View looking for that combination. And because of the direction the traffic was moving, which would have been north, I figured it must be either 6th or 8th Avenue, which both run north and have subway lines. In the years after the Port Authority bus station moved uptown, they closed some of the surrounding the subway entrances, including the one the band descends.ДЇrom the long westward-facing shadows of the sunlight in the video, I guessed that the video was shot facing south before noontime. You can still see the words THE PORT OF NEW YORK AUTHORITY on the building.

In the 1940's the building was a huge bus/transportation hub and it needed a lot of entrances to get people in and out at rush hour. It's called the 'Googleplex' and it's located a block south of where the band went down the subway. This is the huge, block-long building where Google has it's New York headquarters. Then Billy and the other guys walk back along the yellow path. In the video, the single man along walks the red path, then the camera zooms along the blue path to the corner of the playground. The building who's product provides Billy with half of the 'give and take' of 'The New York Times.The Daily News.') You can see the New York Times building near Times Square in the background. The building is in an area now called Chelsea, which is about 1/4 mile north of Greenwich Village and about a mile and a half south of Times Square, which is where the A&R recording studio will be located (on 52nd Street) later in the video. (You will get this view if you search for the building on Google Street View at '300 West 17th Street, Manhattan, New York.' If you search for '308 West 17th Street, Manhattan, NY' you will get taken right to the steps that Richie was sitting on.) You can see the trees outside of the playground in the back. If you go there and look through the grating - you can still see the stairs, covered with dead leaves. This is what's left of the subway stairs they were descending, which were at the south-west corner of Eighth Avenue and 17th Street in Manhattan.ДЄnd here's another view from the other direction. The video continues uptown at the studio, but I want to discuss this section while we are here. They enter the subway at the street corner. They are all in 'street' clothes.ДЄnd the saxman (Richie Cannata) comes off the steps and joins them. He picks up two other band members (Liberty and Doug) and walks down the street. Then, after seeing the Liberty and Doug in close up, we see Billy. the camera zooms into the back of the park where some 'street guys' are leaning out against the fence. The man walks by the stairs to a building. I will also post it here, though I can't guarantee it will be there when you click on it. If you are unfamilair with the video you can find it on YouTube or Vevo by searching for 'Billy Joel My Life Video.' (All stills are from the Music Video of Billy Joel performing My Life (c) 1985 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT) It pans down, as title credits come on, and we see a person in a white tee shirt walking down the street from the street corner. The video starts with a shot of the New York skyline. To be notified of new PopSpots entries, follow PopSpotsNYC on Twitter:ДЇor questions or comments you can email me (Bob)

Where was billy joels uptown girl video shot