New York, New York (On the Town) Johnny Depp's Ichabod Crane utters "The Bronx is up and the Battery's down" to his traveling party in the final scene. Alex, Marty, Gloria and Melman sing the chorus of the song in "" The song was parodied in an episode of The Critic. The song was performed by the bells on Disney's Sing Along video: "Let's Go to the Circus". During "Wheel of Fortune"'s first road trip to New York in 1988, the song was played over an image montage of the city, and the lyrics were altered from "It's a helluva town" to "It's a wonderful town". New
So This Is New York So This Is New York So This Is New York is a 1948 satirical movie comedy starring acerbic radio and television comedian Henry Morgan and directed by Richard Fleischer. The cynically sophisticated screenplay was written by Carl Foreman and Herbert Baker from the 1920 novel "The Big Town" by Ring Lardner. Foreman was blacklisted soon after. It remains the only film in which humorist Henry Morgan plays the leading role, and the material was tailored to showcase the cynical persona Morgan had developed for his radio show. The film was the second feature directed Richard Fleischer (son of Max Fleischer),