Delmonico's and Blue Bloods

My favorite New York City Cop Show, Blue Bloods, starring Tom Selleck as my favorite New York City Cop, Frank Reagan the patriarch of the Blue Bloods, started a new season last week, but reruns have been going on for a while. In the 2011 rerun "Dedication" which aired last week, Frank was shot in front of a restaurant where he had finished a meal with some friends. Not to worry, he had a stay in hospital, but he was back to normal, and on to another episode by the end of the show. (I have to admit Selleck in not a particularly good actor - Donny Wahlberg of the "boy band" New Kids on the Block is a surprisingly superior actor despite his hip hop background. He plays Frank's son Danny. But Selleck has a gravitas that requires we take him seriously, and his earnestness, and rough good looks, gives him a high likability factor. We trust and like him as a widowed father of four (grown) children, and as New York City's Police Commissioner).

Delmonico's, the restaurant where Frank was shot, is an actual New York City establishment. The interior looks interesting, with large panel paintings of restaurant patrons covering most of the walls. I tried to find out who painted them. It looks like the artist is an anonymous painter.


Frank Reagan having a meal at Delmonico's with friends

Below are shots of Delmonico's lush interior and walls decorated with panel paintings.















The building has a complicated history: it has been demolished, relocated, rebuilt, and several Delmonico's built around New York. The final incarnation which we see in Blue Bloods is back on Beaver Street.
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Posted By: Kidist P. Asrat
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