The shelter, in the Longwood section of the Bronx, has small apartmentlike units with kitchenettes and tile floors.

'I ain't stole nothing of his.' He made a broad gesture with his arms to demonstrate his empty-handedness.

'A Super Bowl win can legitimize us as a town. We're not some small podunk town anymore,' said Spencer Venable of Indianapolis.

But as Lisa Schwarzbaum, the former movie critic for Entertainment Weekly, pointed out in an email interview, “‘Manhattan’ was always about a middle-aged man with a high school girlfriend. Back then, ‘Manhattan’ was made by Woody the Lovable Neurotic Nebbish, and now it has been made by Allen the Monster. And it’s the same movie.”