Sesame Street, New York, New York
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Sesame Street, New York, New York is the fictional neighborhood and street where the American popular children's television series Sesame Street takes place. The neighborhood, which centers on the street, was originally rather downtrodden and slightly dirty. However, since 1969, the creators of Sesame Street have renewed the neighbourhood's image. The neighborhood includes a fictitious station of the New York City Subway system.
The fictitious businesses in the Sesame Street neighborhood have long life spans, and when businesses have been dropped from the series, the replacement generally is run by the same characters. The businesses are small and run by local people, in contrast to the norm in the real world. Other Sesame Street characters are loyal to the stores, and rarely are characters introduced who provide custom from outside the neighbourhood.
Sesame Street's creators have never given a definitive location for the neighbourhood in the context of the real city of New York. Thus, illustrators of books set on Sesame Street sometimes deviate from the TV series in its local geography; on occasion, accurate representations are painted by artists working on location.
Some evidence regarding the orientation of Sesame Street in the minds of its creators comes from an exchange in the TV series. Big Bird asked David where Los Angeles is, and from the window of Mr. Hooper's Store, he says "About three thousand miles that way," pointing stage right, implying that Sesame Street is an east-west thoroughfare (as are most "streets" in Manhattan), and the buildings visible on the show are all on the north side.
David Dinkins was the mayor of New York City in the Sesame Street universe, as of 1992.
[edit] In the neighborhood
- 123 Sesame Street, an apartment building
- Hooper's Store
- The Mail-It Shop, formerly The Fix-It Shop
- The Furry Arms, hotel
- Finder's Keepers, second-hand store
- Sesame Street Play Group, 1980s, mentioned in books only
- New York City Subway, Sesame Street Station
