c. 1950
The taxi cabs of this era just knock me out. Edge of Doom, showing at the Astor Theater was indeed released in 1950, and it looks like a sign for Mister Roberts with Henry Fonda–the original Broadway play at the Alvin Theater–is peeking around the corner. Fonda won a Tony Award in the play, which ran for 1157 performances starting in 1948. Decades later I saw The Great White Hope with James Earl Jones at the Alvin, my dad having scored tickets through his job at the Transit Authority (he was a subway motorman) for having donated blood.
Noir By Night 