One On Top Of The Other - Doppelgänger
Then … With airplane ticket in hand Monica continues on to JFK International airport.
… and Now, her cab was heading southwest along FDR Drive on the Lower East Side of town towards Manhattan Bridge directly ahead (map). To reach the airport the cab would cross the bridge then continue through Brooklyn to Queens …
Then … But for reasons only film editors would understand the next shot is back in Midtown where her cab is passing 30 Rockefeller Plaza next to the seasonal ice rink (map). Today that short street between W. 49th and W. 50th Is now a pedestrian precinct.
… and Now, skating at the ice rink, seen here in a recent photo, continues to be a popular New York City winter pastime. Both Then and Now images showcase Prometheus, the 1934 gilded bronze sculpture by Paul Manship. 30 Rockefeller Plaza faces us at street level.
Then … She reaches her destination - the iconic TWA Flight Center at John F Kennedy International Airport, the busiest international air passenger gateway into North America (map).
… and Now, the soaring creation by architect Eero Saarinen opened in 1962. It closed in 2002 for restoration and integration into a new 512 room hotel complex.
Pictured here in this fine promotional photo, the TWA Hotel opened in 2019.
Then … Monica crosses the arrivals lounge of the flight center.
… and Now, it’s been faithfully restored as part of today’s hotel.
… and Now, in this promotional photograph of the terminal we see the overhead walkway from which the Then and Now images above were taken.
Monica heads straight for a restroom to shed her blonde wig and green contact lenses, revealing her true self and confirming she is indeed Susan Dumurrier, no surprise to anybody by now.
Then … She completes the transformation by turning her reversible coat inside out then walks through one of the two tubes connecting the terminal to the gates.
… and Now, still there, the tubes now join the hotel to an adjacent newly built Jet Blue terminal.
At the gate she now matches her passport photo for the flight to Paris.