Beloved filmmaker Woody Allen, 87, and his wife Soon-Yi Previn are spotted strolling around NYC

Woody Allen and his wife Soon-Yi Previn were spotted somewhere in their hometown of New York City this week.

Allen, 87, wore a pair of his signature corduroy trousers and a button-down plaid shirt in a rare outing.

He wrapped a sweater around his waist during the apparently warm NYC day and kept the sun off his skin with a brown bucket hat.

Woody walked with Soon-Yi on his arm, who was wearing black pants, black boots, a gray sweater, and a black baseball cap.

Previn, 52, also wore her cell phone around her chest.

Allen wore brown pants and a matching bucket hat, and Previn wore black pants

The outing was one of the couple’s first sightings since they were spotted in Paris in the fall while Allen was shooting his 50th film, Wasp 22.

Despite rumors that he was planning to leave show business after the film’s release, representatives for Allen confirmed shortly afterwards that he “not planning on retiring.”

In an interview with the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia, he said: ‘My idea is basically not to make more films and concentrate on writing.’

The statement read: “Woody Allen never said he was retiring, nor did he say he was writing another novel.

“He said he was thinking about not making movies because making movies that go directly or very quickly to streaming platforms isn’t much fun for him as he’s a big fan of the cinema experience.”

It concluded: “At the moment he has no plans to retire and is very excited to be in Paris to shoot his new film, which will be the 50th.”

The couple was seen crossing a street in their hometown of New York City

The happy couple walked arm in arm as they walked the New York City sidewalk

Soon-Yi, the adopted daughter of Woody’s ex-girlfriend Mia Farrow.

Mia and Woody had been together since 1979, but that all changed 13 years later when Woody, then 55, and Soon-Yi, then 21, were caught having an affair.

Woody and Soon-Yi share two adopted daughters Bechet, 23, and Manzie, 22.

The writer and director said the plot of his latest film would be “exciting, dramatic and also very sinister,” describing it as something similar to the thriller Match Point, which won the 2006 Goya Award for Best European Film.

In a live-streamed conversation on Instagram from June with actor Alec Baldwin – who has appeared in several of his films – the embattled writer and director alluded to the pivot of his career, saying “the tension is gone” due to a downturn in the theater . ongoing experience.

“A lot of the tension is gone,” the director admitted. “Now you do a movie, and you get a few weeks in a movie theater, and then it goes to streaming or pay-per-view. It’s not the same. I don’t like it very much.’