Mardik Martin, a longtime friend and collaborator of Martin Scorsese whose writing credits included “Mean Streets,” “New York, New York,” and “Raging Bull,” died Wednesday from undisclosed causes. He was 84.
The Armenian Film Society first announced the news Wednesday afternoon.
Scorsese released a statement on Martin’s passing: “We met at NYU, or Washington Square College as it was called back in the early 60s. For a time, we were inseparable. We went to see movies together, we talked about them endlessly, and then we started dreaming up the pictures we were going to make — in diner booths and on benches in Washington Square Park, walking the streets of lower Manhattan or driving around the city, in hot and cold weather, in sunshine and in rain and snow, by night and by day…that was me and my old friend Mardik Martin, now gone.