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[benthic]

@soci: Editted, for your convenience.

And in any case, if any other events do happen to pop up in the NY area, be sure that I'll be there to document it as best I can. I'm sure there are several others out here as well that will be doing the same.

[Hlwgst]

Probably not significant, but one thing i noticed from the trailer is the red banner of "USA Shaolin Temple" on the left side of the street. Here's a snapshot i just happened to take on a recent trip to nyc. The address is 446 Broadway.

[benthic]

[Almijisti]

[Chibbie]

Not only that, but there was the infamous HansoExposed.com "Glyph hunt", where secret codes were hidden in the real world - some in New York, LA, Australia, etc...

Here is an example:

L.A.: http://f3.yahoofs.com/ymg/lostninja/lostninja-778428452-1156171403.jpg?ymNq1H8CgLZUc5Po

New York Time's Square: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73baMZMa2SU

[carnus]

 Set vs Real World

[fishy]

It looks like everything below "Textiles" is obscured by a building.

[datlin]

I had originally posted this on another forum, but thought it might be helpful in this discussion:

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The aerial view looking south on Broadway, with the 401 Broadway building and the PENN TEXTILE CO sign is here.

If you scroll the map up (continue north up the street), you will see several buildings on the west side that are in the trailer. When you get to Grand Street, there is a parking lot on the north/west corner... this seems to be the location of a new building on Broadway, and is also in the trailer (at 1:30.17 - on the right, behind the yellow street sign). You can see the building on Goolge maps' street view here.

This new building looks like it's the last building in the shot that actually exists in the location on the trailer - the buildings north of it are not visible when you travel up the street in the Google map street view.

If you take a look at the leaked pictures of the Cloverfield set, specifically the image with the green screen in the background, you will see that this is the view of the street that is visible when everyone runs out of Rob's apartment, just north of that new building on Broadway. I would assume that if there is a clue at street level, it would probably be contained on this set somewhere.

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From the Google map link, if you continue SW on the street, you will see the 401 Broadway building approach after a few streets, and you should pass several buildings that look familiar from the trailer.

The street sign that reads "DEAD DEAD" seems like it should be part of the set revealed in the images at the url above.

[ImAWitch]

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[Riane]

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[rose]

thanks for the pictures

[Nighthawk]

[Almijisti]

FWIW, I thought I'd post a couple things I saw around 401 Broadway when I was in Manhattan today. I don't have a transflash card for my phone yet, but the pics would not be helpful. What I did see on the building (which has been converted to condos), is a couple interesting bills posted:

A sticker with the website www.ithinkyourswell.com (this site is nothing right now, and I think it's an old sticker)

More interesting were these:

A sticker with Motley Bird logo on it. Looking this up on google, we find that it's a new energy drink from a Swiss company called Kama. I don't believe it's available yet. Sort of interesting site at motleybird.com, but nothing related to the movie.

A posted ad for Java Pop. This is also a newish drink; some sort of coffee based soda (I like coffee and I like soda but I don't like the idea of mixing them. This is also a real product, but the company doesn't have a website that I've found.

I just think it's possible that while the Motley Bird thing is pretty ubiquitous in this area of town, the specific placement here and of Java Pop (which I didn't see anywhere else) mean that at least the people doing that guerilla marketing stumbled upon the Cloverfield thing and put their ads on 401 just to tease people like me (given the whole slusho thing). I would be amazed if either of these companies wound up doing a tie-in with a real slusho product, but who knows?

[eleven11]

If you do go back to that location, I think you should walk further away from the 401 Broadway building. From your pics it seems like you might have been too close to accurately match up the buildings in the trailer with the real ones.