First of all, I thought this was going to be an elderly couple in Brooklyn meet cute - but no, it turns out Diane Keaton and Morgan Freeman have been in a relationship for decades, one which we see in flashback, where they're played by Claire van der Bloom and Korey Jackson.
Should they sell their (great) apartment? No, of course not, even though horrible niece Cynthia Nixon thinks they should. Whilst a 'terrorist' is the victim of a city-wide manhunt, various offers come and go, duing the course of which he encounters cute Sterling Jerins, who we've encountered before, and thought we would again by the end of the film, but didn't. Though their dog does make a recovery after a ruinously expensive operations. The film ends rather suddenly, and we both would have watched more.
It sounds like that's all there was in Jill Ciment's (short) source novel 'Heroic Measures', though in that the elderly couple are Jewish and live in the East Village. From where, if you wanted to get to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where the film version of the couple hang out, you'd take the Williamsburg Bridge, photographed here by Jonathan Freeman:
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