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Remember the days when Times Square was a hotbed of sin? Where 42nd Street was known for adult shops and hang-out spots for prostitutes? Ah, to wax nostalgic... Well, okay, I'm actually not old enough to have been there myself, but I have seen enough 1970's movies set in New York to know about these fabled "peepshows" they have down there. Now it's all Good Morning America and Toys 'R Us and the MTV window where Kurt Loder contemplates daily on "How old is too old?" But for a brief time on Wednesday night, a film crew created the illusion of yesteryear's Square in New York, just like the seedy slum we all miss. New York Times blogger Jennifer 8. Lee took these pictures of the innocent tourist shop and restaurant morphed into a massage parlor and a peep show.

The scene was actually shot on West 38th Street, just a few blocks down the road from the actual 42nd street. It takes place in 1974 New York, for the film All Good Things, a murder mystery by Capturing the Friedmans director Andrew Jarecki. Although it's his first narrative feature, the film is based on the true story of real estate heir Robert Durst along with the mystery disappearances and deaths of the women in his life. The film stars Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst. Dunst will play Durst's first wife, who disappeared in 1982.

All Good Things, shot for only $20 mil, is due out next year.

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