NOTE: This post originally appeared on Novel Travelist on 27 Jan 2014. Sadly, Novel Travelist is going away. I’m reposting here so the information will live on after that site disappears. With Google, Flickr, YouTube and all the rest, you can get a pretty good idea of what other places…
Doha 12 Locales: Carroll Street, Crown Heights, Brooklyn
After the three-way shootout in Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station, Our Heroes Jake Eldar and Miriam Schaffer flee the city. Jake convinces his uncle Gene – an NYPD inspector and deputy commander of the Intelligence Division – to shelter them in an NYPD safe house. The safe house is on this…
Doha 12 Locales: Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn
The penultimate showdown in Doha 12—a three-way gun battle between Our Heroes Jake and Miriam, the Hezbollah team out to kill them, and the Mossad team out to kill Hezbollah—takes place at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery. Green-Wood, now a National Historic Landmark, is 478 acres of green set between Park Slope…
Doha 12 Locales: 30th Street Station, Philadelphia
One of the major set-pieces in Doha 12 is a three-way gun battle involving Our Heroes at Philadelphia’s massive 30th Street Station, the terminus for the city’s subway, commuter rail and Amtrak. It was completed in 1933 and is a fine example of early-to-mid Art Deco, with its classicist forms…
Doha 12 Locales: Temple Emanu-El, New York City
I want to take a brief break from the sturm und drang about South and its version of 2032 to show you a couple of the more interesting settings used in Doha 12. I’d like to start with Temple Emanu-El on 5th Avenue in Manhattan. Emanu-El houses the first Reform…