I think I asked this once before: Where was the school Francie wanted to attend located? From the book we know where she grew up by the street names. Is there any indication in the book? I think someone offered Greenpoint without citing if it were stated in the book.
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I don't know the answer to that but I'm assuming it wasn't in Brooklyn and how she got there every day IDK? I thought it might have been uptown perhaps a prep school?
Who was the guy she applied to and how did she get in?
Greenpoint is a possibility but I don't recall any reference to it in the book.
But just going on the location it could have been on the South side of Myrtle say Bushwick Ave which was highly professional area. Or East of where she lived there were still farms which was more rural than where she lived, Both areas within a mile.
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In the book, Francie and Johnny walk a few blocks, then turn a corner; Johnny also shows her a short-cut through a park, that would take Francie diagonally from home to school. The new school is still "shabby" but clean, and there are fewer new immigrants there to "be taken advantage of". Later on, the narrator explains that the school is 12 blocks away, so Francie walks 48 blocks a day, plus Katie insists she come home for lunch every day, and then back. She ends up getting 5 minutes for lunch, which she eats on the way back to the school.
So there are some parameters to narrow things down a bit, with a Brooklyn map circa 1910, and a list of public schools around the area.
Movies always take liberties with specific locations of course. But the nearest well-off area to early 20th century Williamsburg was Clinton Hill. But that was miles away.
shareMovies always take liberties with specific locations of course. But the nearest well-off area to early 20th century Williamsburg was Clinton Hill. But that was miles away.
Then her school have been somewhere in Greenpoint (as others have noted) which was a little less crowded than Williamsburg. In the scene where the boy asks Francie for a date he is wearing an 'E' on his sweater, for the Eastern District High School which was opened in 1900 and closed in 1996. At the time of it's closure it was one of the worst schools in NYC.
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