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Designers at the company "approximate" styles of sneakers, sandals and loafers soon after they hit the street in New York, London or Amsterdam, rolling hundreds of designs a year, spotting a fad and getting their version into stores in three months, beating rivals by a month or more.
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George Chakiris, who played Bernardo, leader of the Puerto Rican gang, the Sharks, in the film, said in a phone interview last week that its prologue was shot at two Manhattan locations, at 68th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, slightly north of where Avery Fisher Hall, home of the New York Philharmonic, stands today, and in a schoolyard at 110th Street and Second Avenue.
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Harold Smith, a resident of the Amsterdam Houses, a public housing development across the street from Damrosch Park, said he simply wants the park returned to the people who live nearby, so children have a place to play.
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