{"id":2314660,"date":"2026-03-05T22:51:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T22:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2314660"},"modified":"2026-03-05T22:51:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T22:51:18","slug":"be-good-to-the-roxy-how-ryan-murphys-love-story-gets-90s-new-york-exactly-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/be-good-to-the-roxy-how-ryan-murphys-love-story-gets-90s-new-york-exactly-right\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBe Good to the Roxy!\u201d: How Ryan Murphy\u2019s \u2018Love Story\u2019 Gets \u201990s New York Exactly Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Before <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0312159\/\">Bloomberg<\/a>, before the High Line, before the $18 cocktail, there was a different New York City. One filled with phone booths and newsstands and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0538441\/\">Gray\u2019s Papaya<\/a> on practically every grimy street corner \u2014 a New York where getting your bicycle ripped off was almost as much a rite of passage as stomping on your first cockroach.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re referring to, of course, Manhattan circa the 1990s, arguably the height of human civilization \u2014 and an historic period that\u2019s been meticulously resurrected in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0614682\/\">Ryan Murphy<\/a>\u2019s Love Story: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0447882\/\">John F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a> &amp; Carolyn Bessette. Every detail of that iconic era \u2014 the flip phones, the glass-brick-filled lofts, the bustling magazine kiosks (remember those?) \u2014 seems to have been teleported from the not-so-distant past onto the screen, right down to the \u201cBe Good to the Roxy and the Roxy Will Be Good To You\u201d sign at the long-gone <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0430055\/\">Roxy<\/a> nightclub in Chelsea (which was recreated for the series in Brooklyn,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Bloomberg, before the High Line, before the $18 cocktail, there was a different New York City. One filled with phone booths and newsstands and Gray\u2019s Papaya on practically every grimy street corner \u2014 a New York where getting your bicycle ripped off was almost as much a rite of passage as stomping on your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2314661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2314660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Be-Good-to-the-Roxy-How-Ryan-Murphys-\u2018Love-Story.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2314660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2314662,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314660\/revisions\/2314662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2314660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2314660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2314660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}