New York, New York (On the Town) New York, New York (On the Town) "New York, New York" is a song from the 1944 musical "On the Town" and the 1949 MGM musical film of the same name. The music was written by Leonard Bernstein and the lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. A well known line of this song is, "New York, New York, a helluva town. The Bronx is up but the Battery's down." For the film version, the word "helluva" was changed to "wonderful" to appease the Production Code offices. In 2004 the film version finished at #41 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs
Queens Borough Hall of Queens Borough Hall on 82nd Avenue, a retired New York City Subway redbird train, R33 car #9075, is on display signed as a 7 train. The Redbird car was formerly a visitor center for the Queens Borough Hall, but the visitor center closed in 2015 due to low patronage, and the car is now used as a landmark and for movie shoots. Queens Borough Hall Queens Borough Hall is a public building in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City which houses the Office of the Queens Borough President and other city offices and