“You get more in New York in terms of neighborhoods and different kinds of people and different socioeconomic locations, and parks and skyscrapers and the water — so much more in New York than ...

But the setting is crucial. Since Men in Black has its roots in the ‘60s alien visitor sci-fi conspiracy theories, the film’s depiction of New York has a similarly bygone feel to it.In their ...

File photo: Richard Roundtree attends the premiere of ''Shaft'' on June 10, 2019, in New York. Roundtree, the trailblazing Black actor who starred as the ultra-smooth private detective “Shaft” in ...

Roundtree, who was born in New Rochelle, New York, was considered as the first Black action hero and became one of the leading actors in the blaxploitation genre through his New York street smart ...