u/KoenigseggAgera

1. MIB HQ is the ventilation building for Brooklyn Battery Tunnel.

2. Queens-Midtown Tunnel on the Manhattan side.

3. Unisphere at World’s Fair in Queens.

4. New York State Pavilion at World’s Fair in Queens.

5. Coney Island.

6. Coney Island Wonder Wheel.

Learning about New York history and the World’s Fair was interesting because I realize Men In Black is kind of a comedy about New York itself with the Pavilion looking like UFOs, and the little metal ball causing the 1977 blackout…

The Runaways in 1976, an all girl band and teenagers whose rapid thrust into the rock industry left an interesting mark and a unique style that blended proto-metal, punk/proto-punk, and glam. It is unclear who took the photo, but it is very likely to have been during their first performance on the East Coast in August 1976. CBGB was frequented by many bands including Blondie, Ramones, Talking Heads, and more. Now it is an expensive rock clothing store…

I wore my biker jacket, tucked Ramones shirt, and loosened black necktie. In the summer heat. I also visited Rockaway Beach, but not much there.

Looks like a Dodge Hornet competitor.

I couldn’t get Gemini to generate a back view of a shooting brake without it looking like the swept back roof of the regular Beetle.

The Rathskeller was a popular rock venue in Boston, Massachusetts that was frequented by punk bands and operated between 1974-1997. The building was torn down and replaced with a luxury hotel. Behind, the parking lot was mostly replaced with a parking garage for the hotel. In photo 2, the back of the hotel is the whitish colored building, and this is where the Rathskeller was. In photo 3, I overlayed a photo of the back of the Rathskeller to show how it would have looked like. The photo was taken by Glen DePietro on Facebook sometime in the mid-1980s. This layout is confirmed by a YouTube video in this location titled "punks outside The Rat."

Thank you, u/Prokansal for the amazing photo of Midtown Manhattan. I have cropped it to match the music video of Blondie - Union City Blue. The video shot is unfortunately washed out but you can at least get an idea of what the skyline looked like back then. The most prominent buildings:

- Current UBS building partially hidden behind the Allianz building.

- XYZ buildings on Sixth Avenue.

- One Astor Plaza in Times Square, first building on the left partially hidden by Clem Burke's head.

- In front of Clem Burke would be Pier 86 where the USS Intrepid is docked. In 1979, she wasn't there yet. She would arrive in 1982.

Hudson Yards to the left outside the photo was not built up as we know it now with the tall glass skyscrapers. The Empire State Building is to the right outside the photo. I ran this screenshot through AI a few times to help me identify the buildings. Gemini suggests the stuff above Clem's head could be a crane. The Chrysler building would have occupied that spot, but from this angle it seems the Chrysler Building wouldn't appear any taller than One Astor Plaza.

The music video shows the band playing and a building behind them says Union Dry Dock. The current location of Union Dry Dock is south of this location, and AI says Union Dry Dock had moved from this northern location to the current southern location, but I couldn't confirm this info. Currently, this view can be seen from the Weehawken, NJ waterfront near the Weehawken 9/11 memorial.

Tons of people hanging around and sorting through packages, kids playing around on the floor, older kids helping move packages, looks like a bomb went off.

I found some of my old diecasts and I spent all afternoon creating the decals on my Z that looks like this generic photo. Happy with it so far even if the proportions are off a bit.

Really only possible with comfort mode that limits the throttle response but is totally manageable, especially when people around here merge on the highway 15 mph below the speed limit. Mixed highway and road use. Filled up around 10.62 gallons out of the 12.4 gallon fuel tank, so I still had plenty of distance in reserve. Notification of low gas comes on when the range says like 42 miles.

Haven’t seen someone try the look on a base model, I’d love to see that.