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.
Influence[]
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.
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.
Events of Grand Theft Auto IV[]
- In I Need Your Clothes, Your Boots, and Your Motorcycle, a motorcycle chase breaks out between Niko Bellic and Frank Garone in Star Junction. Incidentally, a car that caught fire on Lorimar Street, outside the Cooper Jackson Building and the MeTV Building, explodes in the vicinity of the bikers.
Prominent Appearances in Missions[]
Grand Theft Auto IV[]
- I Need Your Clothes, Your Boots, and Your Motorcycle
- Late Checkout
- Most Wanted - Juan Haimo
- Random Characters - Pathos
The Ballad of Gay Tony[]
Places of Interest[]
- Banner Hotel & Spa, Star Junction, a luxury hotel
- Bawsaq Building, head office of BAWSAQ
- Columbus Avenue-Jade Street Building, an office building
- Columbus Center, an office building complex complete with a music venue
- Cooper Jackson Building, an office building
- Denver-Exeter Avenue-Lorimar Street Building, an office building
- Hotel ÜberBrücker, a luxury hotel
- Liberteen, a kids' theater
- Liberty City Services Recruiting Center
- Lorimar Street Statue
- The Magic Curtain, a theater
- Majestic Hotel, a luxury hotel facing Middle Park
- MeTV Building, head office of MeTV
- Seagull Theater, a theatre
- Thespian Theatres
- The Celtica Hotel, Star Junction, a luxury hotel
- The Emissary, Star Junction, a luxury hotel facing Middle Park
- The Libertine Hotel, Star Junction, a luxury hotel located in the heart of Star Junction
- The Star Plaza Hotel, a luxury hotel
Businesses[]
- 24/7
- Alphabetz
- Bank of Liberty
- BAWSAQ
- Bean Machine
- Brawls
- Burger Shot
- Candy Box
- The Celtica Hotel
- Checkout!
- Curbcrawler Skateboards
- De Koch Diamonds
- Didier Sachs
- The Emissary
- Escapism Travel
- The Flaming Fez
- Fleeca
- Gaulle
- The Libertine Hotel
- Liberty Cameras
- Liberty Sports Network
- Max Renda
- MeTV
- Ned's Drugs
- Out of Towners
- Pill-Pharm
- Pirate Music
- Pizza
- Pump Gymnasiums
- Rimmers
- The Beat 102.7
- Split Sides
- Superstar Café
- Viendemorte
- Wigwam Burger
Transport[]
The subway stations are the Frankfort and Easton stations.
There are often buses parked in the bus stops.
Gallery[]
References[]
See Also[]
- Bedford Point, a similarly designed district in the preceding rendition of Liberty City.