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"Light at the end of the Tunnel" Central Park Tunnel New York City.
This tunnel was used on location of the Sylvester Stallone film Nighthawks from 1981. The story revolves around the lives of two NYPD police detectives, Det. Sgts. Deke DaSilva (Sylvester Stallone, sporting a beard) and Matthew Fox (Billy Dee Williams) who work undercover, and a terrorist Heymar Reinhardt, alias Wulfgar (Rutger Hauer). In the South Bronx during the late night to early morning hours on New Year's Eve 1980, three armed assailants attempt a mugging on a supposedly unsuspecting woman, who turns out to be DaSilva in drag for a carefully planned sting operation. Fox immobilizes two of the suspects as Deke chases the third upstairs to the 174th Street (IRT White Plains Road Line) Subway Station platform and dares the man to cut him. Deke then incapacitates him and places him under arrest.
The next scene takes place in London on the same day, where Wulfgar bombs a department store, instilling the will of fear in the surrounding society. Meanwhile, back in New York City on January 4, 1981, DaSilva and Fox serve a high risk warrant in the Bronx. They raid a known drug distribution spot. The obvious corruption in the police department is exposed in the suspect's dialogue as a minor subplot. Two days later in London, Wulfgar converses with his contact at a party, Kenna, who tells Wulfgar that Mercer, who we never see but come to know as the financier of Wulfgar's operations, is withholding money owed to Wulfgar because several children were killed in Wulfgar's latest bombing. Wulfgar quickly discovers that Kenna had been held at Heathrow Airport in police custody, and has inadvertently led police to Wulfgar's location. Wulfgar then proceeds to murder Kenna and the policemen who had converged on the location. The next day, he then flees to Paris where he meets his associate, Shakka Holland (Persis Khambatta) at La Sainte-Chapelle. Shakka remarks that La Sainte-Chapelle is a bad meeting place because it's next to (in real life too), the Palais de Justice, a courthouse in Paris. She informs Wulfgar that Kenneth's death was a rash decision, for the police found a passport that he'd brought to Wulfgar on his person. Wulfgar also realizes he has killed one of his own, and is now facing alienation from his allies. With his identity revealed to all European authorities, Wulfgar and Shakka visit a plastic surgeon, who changes Wulfgar's appearance. After the process, the surgeon becomes a liability, and is murdered by Wulfgar, who then flees to New York City. Meanwhile at Central Park, after having their lastest undercover detail compromised by two uniformed officers, DaSilva and Fox are informed that they have been transferred from the Street Crime Unit and into a special Federal-State Unit.
"Light at the end of the Tunnel" Central Park Tunnel New York City.
This tunnel was used on location of the Sylvester Stallone film Nighthawks from 1981. The story revolves around the lives of two NYPD police detectives, Det. Sgts. Deke DaSilva (Sylvester Stallone, sporting a beard) and Matthew Fox (Billy Dee Williams) who work undercover, and a terrorist Heymar Reinhardt, alias Wulfgar (Rutger Hauer). In the South Bronx during the late night to early morning hours on New Year's Eve 1980, three armed assailants attempt a mugging on a supposedly unsuspecting woman, who turns out to be DaSilva in drag for a carefully planned sting operation. Fox immobilizes two of the suspects as Deke chases the third upstairs to the 174th Street (IRT White Plains Road Line) Subway Station platform and dares the man to cut him. Deke then incapacitates him and places him under arrest.
The next scene takes place in London on the same day, where Wulfgar bombs a department store, instilling the will of fear in the surrounding society. Meanwhile, back in New York City on January 4, 1981, DaSilva and Fox serve a high risk warrant in the Bronx. They raid a known drug distribution spot. The obvious corruption in the police department is exposed in the suspect's dialogue as a minor subplot. Two days later in London, Wulfgar converses with his contact at a party, Kenna, who tells Wulfgar that Mercer, who we never see but come to know as the financier of Wulfgar's operations, is withholding money owed to Wulfgar because several children were killed in Wulfgar's latest bombing. Wulfgar quickly discovers that Kenna had been held at Heathrow Airport in police custody, and has inadvertently led police to Wulfgar's location. Wulfgar then proceeds to murder Kenna and the policemen who had converged on the location. The next day, he then flees to Paris where he meets his associate, Shakka Holland (Persis Khambatta) at La Sainte-Chapelle. Shakka remarks that La Sainte-Chapelle is a bad meeting place because it's next to (in real life too), the Palais de Justice, a courthouse in Paris. She informs Wulfgar that Kenneth's death was a rash decision, for the police found a passport that he'd brought to Wulfgar on his person. Wulfgar also realizes he has killed one of his own, and is now facing alienation from his allies. With his identity revealed to all European authorities, Wulfgar and Shakka visit a plastic surgeon, who changes Wulfgar's appearance. After the process, the surgeon becomes a liability, and is murdered by Wulfgar, who then flees to New York City. Meanwhile at Central Park, after having their lastest undercover detail compromised by two uniformed officers, DaSilva and Fox are informed that they have been transferred from the Street Crime Unit and into a special Federal-State Unit.