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Lenny's Pizza on 86th Street in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn as it stands today. Featured in the opening scene of Saturday Night Fever, it introduced audiences to the neighborhood that served as a backdrop for the movie.
December 15th, 2012
11:31 AM ET
Saturday Night Fever's Brooklyn legacy
By Steve Kastenbaum, CNN
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(CNN) – Saturday Night Fever was released 35 years ago this weekend. The iconic movie played a large part in defining the music and fashion of a generation.
Bensonhurst, the Brooklyn neighborhood it was filmed in, was just as much a character in the film as John Travolta’s Tony Manero.
CNN visited Bensonhurst to explore Saturday Night Fever's local legacy, and find out how the neighborhood has, and hasn’t, changed.
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