Sentences with phrase «filled backlot»

Woven into the story of Sultan's enchantment with Sunny's (he eventually left his job at the Paris Review offices in Manhattan to work as a bartender at Sunny's once the place began opening more regularly) is the story of the rise, fall, and gentrification of Red Hook, Brooklyn, a once - seedy and crime - filled backlot to Manhattan's glittering cinemascape.