A significant portion of the film takes pace in and on the buildings that ran north from First Street along Hudson Street (a stretch now occupied by 5 Marine View Plaza and Parking Garage B). The most conspicuous of these structures was the old Continental Hotel, on the northeast corner of First and Hudson. Four scenes are set at 105 Hudson Street (now part of 5 Marine View), three of them in the Doyle's apartment. In the first, Pop, appalled at having seen his daughter walking arm-in-arm with Terry, tries to hasten Edie back to St. Ann's. ("For years, your momma and me put quarters into the cookie jar to keep you up there with the sisters, to keep you from things like I just seen outside the window.") Smitten with Terry, shocked by the injustice she has seen, and unwilling to leave until she gets to the bottom of Joey's death, Edit will have none of it, however. After Edie flees in horror over Terry's admission of complicity in Joey's death, Terry breaks down the door to her apartment in order to talk to her. ("Edie, you love me," he says; her answer is, "I didn't say I don't love you. I said stay away from me.") The scene ends ominously as Terry is called into the street precisely the same way he had called Joey. In the final apartment scene, Terry, depressed that no one will talk to him after he testifies, stays just long enough to realize that Edie can't console him, then climbs out the window and up to his rooftop pigeon coop. The fourth interior shot at 105 Hudson takes place in the hallway after Terry has testified before the Crime Commission. The unwilling charge of two policemen, Terry suffers the fate of those who break the longshoremen's code of D-and-D (deaf and dumb): An acquaintance pointedly ignores him as he starts up the stairs to Edie's apartment. 
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