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Stories Set in New York
Five boroughs, infinite stories: Jazz-Age mansions, firehouse ghostbusters, Central Perk couches and web-slingers over Manhattan. These ten famous works each own a different New York; on StoryTerra you can open the city on the map and filter its stories from the 1890s to today.
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Browse 2,081 books, 3,309 movies, 230 TV shows and 350 games set in New York.

The Godfather
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955 a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life his youngest son Michael…

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
After reuniting with Gwen Stacy Brooklyn’s full-time friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse where he encounters the Spider Society a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the…

Deadpool & Wolverine
A listless Wade Wilson toils away in civilian life with his days as the morally flexible mercenary Deadpool behind him. But when his homeworld faces an existential threat Wade must reluctantly suit-up again with an even…

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Struggling to find his place in the world while juggling school and family Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is unexpectedly bitten by a radioactive spider and develops unfathomable powers just like the one and only…

Spider-Man: No Way Home
Peter Parker is unmasked and no longer able to separate his normal life from the high-stakes of being a super-hero. When he asks for help from Doctor Strange the stakes become even more dangerous forcing him to discover…

The Godfather Part II
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas Hollywood and Cuba.

GoodFellas
The true story of Henry Hill a half-Irish half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.

The Wolf of Wall Street
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.

Whiplash
Under the direction of a ruthless instructor a talented young drummer begins to pursue perfection at any cost even his humanity.

12 Angry Men
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon…
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