Sesame Street 'always has and always will belong to the people in the outer boroughs. The powers that be did a huge disservice by claiming Sesame Street's location is in Manhattan,' writes Allison Hope for CNNOpinion
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Sesame Street, despite a ceremony Wednesday that suggested otherwise, is not at 63rd and Broadway in Manhattan. Allison HopeIt always has and always will belong to the people in the outer boroughs. The powers that be did a huge disservice by claiming Sesame Street's location is in Manhattan. Not least of which because the actual show is filmed out of Kaufman Studios in Astoria and the majority of its recurring street scenes are in Queens. Sesame Street is Pelham Bay and Old Mill Basin. It's Flushing and Bed Stuy, Riverdale and Laurel Hill.
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