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Star Junction is an 8-block neighborhood in Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars located in the heart of Algonquin, Liberty City.

Description[]

Star Junction is bordered by Middle Park to the north by Nickel Street and The Triangle to the south by Jade Street. The Meat Quarter, Westminster and Purgatory are on its western borders by Frankfort Avenue, while Hatton Gardens, Lancet and Easton sit on its eastern borders by Columbus Avenue. Along with the Middle Park, and The Triangle it is one of the well known neighborhoods in Algonquin and Liberty City. It is also one of the few places where buses always spawn (where they are parked).

The entire district is designed with the commercial intersection at the center that features a diagonally placed road, Burlesque, that runs from the northwest at Manganese Street to the southeast at Gamet Street neighboring Triangle, cutting across Denver-Exeter Avenue and Kunzite Street and making up one of Algonquin's main attractions. While seemingly depicted as one, the cityscape is in fact located in both Star Junction and neighboring Triangle, which takes up the southern end of the area.

Star Junction is intended to mimic the functions of New York City's Times Square as both a cultural and corporate center of the city. Star Junction's urban design is characterized by heavily ad-laden buildings and entertainment establishments in the center surrounded by less "decorated" apartments, hotels and officer towers to the north, east and west. Its intended function also results in the presence of "Broadway" theaters and other entertainment establishments (including the Split Sides) which show different performances. The northern edge of Star Junction that borders Middle Park is designed to mimic a more homely skyline of older hotels lined along Central Park South, implying Nickel Street is the in-game equivalent of 59th Street.

Places of Interest[]

While most districts in Liberty City are generally not strictly adherent to the design of their counterpart, Star Junction's is more accurate in layout as Times Square, placing in-game renditions of Time Square's landmarks as accurately as possible. Landmarks based on those in the southern end of Times Square are in fact located in the neighboring Triangle.

Star Junction borrows elements from the following buildings and structures:

StarJunction-GTAIV-Statue
StarJunctionPoliceDepartment-GTAIV-Exterior

Small police station in the middle of Star Junction. A police car is seen in the foreground.

StarJunction-GTAIV-NickelStreetSkyline

Skyline of Star Junction's northern fringe at Nickel Street, as viewed to the southwest. The Emissary and The Majestic are pictured.

  • AMC Empire 25 [5] [6], depicted in game as the Amdram Theater. Where as AMC Empire 25 has been modernized and expanded with only the front of the AMC Empire 25's original frontal facade still stands, the Amdram Theater is depicted as an independent building.
  • 220 42nd Street and 221 41st Street [7] (Candler Building). The in-game rendition houses a Wigwam Burger outlet at the lowest floor, mirroring the McDonald's outlet in the same building.
  • The Plaza Hotel, depicted in game as The Emissary, which rooftop sign is lined by five stars below, implying it is a five star hotel. Its size has been reduced.
  • 50 Central Park South (Ritz-Carlton New York, Central Park/former St. Moritz Hotel) [8], depicted in game as the Majestic Hotel (the structure is slightly smaller) and located at the same block as The Emissary. It also is located on the same block as a building based on 35 Central Park South, the Helmsley Park Lane. The block is a simplification of the block all three buildings exist on.
  • The Rockefeller Center is depicted as the Columbus Center complete with a public court yard surrounded by office towers.

Businesses[]

Transport[]

The subway stations are the Frankfort and Easton stations.

There are often buses parked in the bus stops.

Gallery[]

References[]

See Also[]

Navigation[]

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† denotes absent in Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
[ ve ]Peep That Shit's "Soak In The Sights" in Grand Theft Auto IV
Broker Bridge | Statue of Happiness
AlgonquinStar Junction | Middle Park | Rotterdam Tower | Zirconium Building | Triangle Building | CC Building | Grand Easton Terminal | Chinatown | The Exchange | Cleethorpes Tower | GetaLife Building
BohanWelham Parkway
BrokerOutlook Park
DukesMeadows Park | LC24 Tower
AlderneyPlumber's Skyway
Peep That Shit | Geography of Liberty City | Category:Landmarks
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