You always see the firemen shopping there.” “You have to wear coats to get into the freezer section, so it’s an adventure. My brother did!”įairway Market, 125th Street and 12th Avenue “It has the best Sunday brunch, and you can get married there for free. New Leaf Cafe, the Cloisters, southern end of Fort Tryon Park
“Home” also happens to be the title of her new film, out next month and featuring her 10-year-old daughter, Eulala Scheel. (“The Martha Washington had rats,” she says, “the George did not.”)įor the last seven years, though, the California native (along with her husband, three children and two dogs) has called Harlem home. She lived in 16 places that first year, including the George Washington and the Martha Washington hotels. But Harden, a regular on TV’s “Damages,” has been all over Manhattan since she landed here in 1993. The show is set in Brooklyn’s Cobble Hill, apparently a hotbed for the superficially civilized. Or, at least, watching her character pummel James Gandolfini’s in “God of Carnage.” One of the biggest thrills on Broadway these days is seeing Marcia Gay Harden beat up on Tony Soprano.