The two scenes shot in the streets around the tenements are chilling. Early in the film, Terry calls out from River Street to tell Joey that one of his pigeons has strayed into Terry's coop. Joey, cautious because of his pending appearance before the Crime Commission, agrees to meet Terry on the roof. The next time we see Joey, he is falling into a vacant lot behind 105 Hudson Street, where Father Barry, Edie, and longshoremen assemble over his body. In the second, Terry climbs out of a window in Edie's apartment and down the fire escape of the building into the same lot. In the next scene, Terry is walking south down Court Street. Edie follows by the same unusual route and end up in the same illogical place. Minutes later, Terry and Edie are running north on a section of Court Street, between Newark and First, that is no longer an open thoroughfare. (The east wall of the Fabian Theater, which was demolished in 1969, is prominently visible.) The vehicle chasing them was actually a prop truck that belonged to the production company (it had also appeared in a back-ground drive-by during the second Church Square Park scene). The pair escape when Terry, slashing his hand in the process, breaks a door window to get them off the narrow street, inside a building, and out of the path of the careering truck. Then, in yet another of those turnabouts of perspective that become clear only with the tenth viewing, the lovers are facing the east wall of the Fabian (now the location of a CVS Pharmacy), where they find Charlie hanging by a longshoreman's hook. 
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