Mott Street (Manhattan) - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• In the well-known song "Manhattan" by Rodgers and Hart, ..."And tell me what street / compares with Mott Street in July; / sweet push carts gently gliding by."
• Mott Street is also mentioned in the song "Lost Boys Calling" by Roger Waters as part of the movie The Legend of 1900 (soundtrack) – "And in Mott street in July / When I hear those seabirds cry"
• In a series of short stories by pulp-writer Arthur J. Burks (All Detective Magazine, 1933–34), undercover detective Dorus Noel maintains an apartment near the intersection of Pell and Mott Streets. Burks' Chinatown is riddled with underground passages (which he describes as "rabbit warrens"), and populated by sinister villains and an inexhaustible supply of self-sacrificing Chinese hatchetmen.
• In an episode of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, a BTK-esque killer hid a clue on top of a pay phone on the corners of Mott Street and Grand Street.
• Revy, one of the main characters of the manga/anime Black Lagoon, is implied to have grown up on Mott Street.
• In Garth Ennis' initial run on The Punisher, Frank Castle's apartment is located off of Mott Street.
• In The Godfather Part II, the Genco Olive Oil company was located on Mott Street.
• In David Mamet's The Spanish Prisoner, Susan Ricci lives at 110 Mott Street, "above the Sunshine Bakery."
• The Beastie Boys' "Three MCs and One DJ" music video was shot in a Mott Street building, which, according to the commentary on the Beastie Boys Video Anthology DVD, was also formerly home to Sonic Youth.
• Mott Street was where "Ragged Dick" from the Horatio, Alger jr. story of the same name found his first "lodgings".
• In AMC-TV series Rubicon, a safe house address is listed as 701 Mott Street, Apt 2D.
• In Mobsters, Mott Street was referred to as the street where Lucky Luciano grew up and eventually rose to power.
• In "Once Upon a Time in America" a Chinese man helps Noodles (De Niro) to run away from the armed men trying to kill him through a door facing Mott Street. "There down. Mott Street. Go. Go. Go" says the Chinese man, encouraging Noodles to hurry up.