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Bronx Steps In ‘Joker’ The Movie Become A Tourist Attraction
NEW YORK (AP) — Move over, Rocky, there’s a new stairway to climb.
A set of outdoor steps in the Bronx has become a tourist attraction in recent weeks since the release of the movie “Joker.”
The stairs are between two buildings on Shakespeare Avenue, about a half-mile from Yankee Stadium.
In the movie, lead actor Joaquin Phoenix dances as he goes down the steps, wear- ing a bright red suit and clown makeup.
These days,
neighborhood res- idents using the steps are being joined by tourists trying to recreate the scene.
The visitors have been taking self- ies, and some have even shown up in costume.
Coming to the stairs is “really immersive,” said Oliver Bonallack, visiting from
Brighton, England.
“You never really get to experience a film first-hand,”
he said. “I feel like it is so icon- ic.”
Not everyone is thrilled with the upsurge in popu- larity.
“We live in the neighborhood, it’s taking up all of our time, we’re all being inconve- nienced,” said Bronx resident Cathyrine Spencer. “Every day when I come down the stairs, I have to go through a barrage of people.”
The stairway joins the ranks of well- known movie set- tings, like that of the steps at the Philadelphia Museum of Art seen in “Rocky.”
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