Perhaps more than any other American city, the normal pace of life in NY is past. Most days in Manhattan there isn't a whole lot of strolling going on. People tend to move pretty quickly. If you're making a movie and need to step things up a bit, then you've got to have some running, but that's just my take on things.

Oh and you left out Miss Piggy running through Central Park in Muppets Take Manhattan.

Hi Scott

quick tip. You can "deep link" into a specific point in youtube videos by appending "#t=2m30s" to the URL. So to start the Manhattan video at 7m 18s the link becomes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXgnXrQtm5I#t=7m18s

@terraling: Does that work for embeds as well?

Not sure but whatever code you use to embed a video, manually tack the #t tag onto the end and it should work.