By the late 1950s, the neighborhood was pulverized. In a bitter twist of irony, before the final tenements fell, director Jerome Robbins used the rubble of San Juan Hill to film the opening gang-rivalry scenes of the 1961 movie West Side Story. (cont)
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The setting of “West Side Story” is San Juan Hill, the nickname of the Lincoln Square area of Upper West Side of Manhattan—an area bulldozed and redeveloped into the Lincoln Center performing arts com...
