The Pepsi - Cola sign
in Long Island
City — a dazzling swirl of red curlicue letters that
evokes innocent days of
summer, heavy industry
in Queens and a spectacular disregard for the waterfront
in the mid-20th century — is now an official New York
City landmark.
If nothing else, Jonathan Levine's coming - of - age film The Wackness
evokes the
summer of»94 with impressive particularity; it's one thing to get the look and sound of the time right, but Levine also captures the atmosphere of fear and loathing
in Rudy Giuliani's New York, where the task of «cleaning up» the
city swept too much under the rug.