When the cab got to 13th Street, where we live, we had to look carefully into the blackness to see where our building was.

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Monday the lights in our apartment on West 13th Street flickered and went dim, and I called my parents, who live farther downtown, in Tribeca.

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The Edison (960 Ocean Drive), The Beacon (720 Ocean Drive), The Chesterfield (855 Collins) and The Mercury (100 Collins) are four hotels worth donning Miami Vice pastel for, although film buffs will want to save their adoration for The Carlyle (1250 Ocean Drive, at 13th street), where the classic gangster flick Scarface was shot.

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With so many horror remakes of late--Halloween in 2007, Friday the 13th in 2009, Nightmare on Elm Street in 2010--there's been a reverting to type.

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