Hi there!
I'm normally pretty quick with ideas on where to set scenes.. but this one's giving me trouble.
I'm looking for a New York City neighborhood to set an underground casino in, and I'm looking for a cover business.
I was going to go with a club, niftily called Fire & Ice, set somewhere in Astoria, but as this is the opening page of my WIP, I figured I'd really better check with actual New York City residents. If I'm going with a club, where are the nightclubs? Google only gets me so far. I'm happy to move location to wherever is suitable -- my only goal was to shoot for a neighborhood recognizable as "New York City" without being too obvious (for example, most folks aren't familiar with Lenox Hill or Borough Park being NYC neighborhoods...).
I know there's a bit of a trope for setting underground casinos or clubs inside of meat packing plants, laundromats and the like, so I was trying to go a bit outside the box and set one inside an actual club. But maybe I'm underexposed to current TV tropes. Is that a bad idea? I'd love some ideas on businesses where an underground casino could cheerfully operate unnoticed.
My team of vigilante sisters are hitting the underground casinos in town and doing a bit of a Robin Hood with the cash. I'm looking to start my opening chapter with a newspaper article on a previous hit, and open with a brief scene set inside another casino.
Then all hell breaks loose overseas, and we don't come back to the scene again.
Ideas are most welcome -- especially on neighborhoods and cover business.
Damn opening chapter. Third time's the charm, right?
~ Anna
I'm normally pretty quick with ideas on where to set scenes.. but this one's giving me trouble.
I'm looking for a New York City neighborhood to set an underground casino in, and I'm looking for a cover business.
I was going to go with a club, niftily called Fire & Ice, set somewhere in Astoria, but as this is the opening page of my WIP, I figured I'd really better check with actual New York City residents. If I'm going with a club, where are the nightclubs? Google only gets me so far. I'm happy to move location to wherever is suitable -- my only goal was to shoot for a neighborhood recognizable as "New York City" without being too obvious (for example, most folks aren't familiar with Lenox Hill or Borough Park being NYC neighborhoods...).
I know there's a bit of a trope for setting underground casinos or clubs inside of meat packing plants, laundromats and the like, so I was trying to go a bit outside the box and set one inside an actual club. But maybe I'm underexposed to current TV tropes. Is that a bad idea? I'd love some ideas on businesses where an underground casino could cheerfully operate unnoticed.
My team of vigilante sisters are hitting the underground casinos in town and doing a bit of a Robin Hood with the cash. I'm looking to start my opening chapter with a newspaper article on a previous hit, and open with a brief scene set inside another casino.
Then all hell breaks loose overseas, and we don't come back to the scene again.
Ideas are most welcome -- especially on neighborhoods and cover business.
Damn opening chapter. Third time's the charm, right?
~ Anna