# Rainy Sidewalk

A wet New York sidewalk outside the cafe at 12:30 a.m., with steam, streetlight reflections, period storefront signs, newspaper boxes, pay-phone glow, and puddles on dark pavement.

Place · Fictional · Established

Stable ID: `nyc-1986-rainy-sidewalk` · Revision 2 · Updated 2026-10-30

Context: [New York, 1986](/field-guide/collections/nyc-1986/)

[Web page](/field-guide/entities/nyc-1986-rainy-sidewalk/) · [JSON record](/field-guide/entities/nyc-1986-rainy-sidewalk/record.json)

## Appearances

- [New York, 1986](/research/johns-world/johns-world-1986.html) (context: [New York, 1986](/field-guide/collections/nyc-1986/))

## Sources

- Unpublished source notes: New York, 1986: cafe-night.json (revision sha256:7464126ac9daf62dda75f53e9492fbafb74b8626ad5e99e8d868ef9a9fb65ded)

## Reference library

### Scene

![Mara Vasquez hails a taxi from the wet sidewalk outside the café.](/field-guide/assets/references/nyc-1986-rainy-sidewalk/01-source-view-v1-1200.webp)

Mara Vasquez hails a taxi from the wet sidewalk outside the café.

[Download full-size image](/field-guide/assets/references/nyc-1986-rainy-sidewalk/01-source-view-v1.webp) · Unpublished cab-ride production keyframe · v1 · SHA-256: `e963573350efc4311ef0491f6829dadc1bb037d27f1528e27e83ef1048446773`