She and the car are on Fifth Avenue at 59th Street in New York City. The building behind the trees is Bergdorf Goodman's department store and the building to the right is the Plaza Hotel. Fifth Avenue is indeed a one-way street going south and the car is parked going the wrong way.
Been on that corner more times than I could count.
She's pretty tall for a Bugeye, and I would say those heels would not help her ability to get in and out of it! I would add that it takes a brave person to drive a BE in Manhattan these days. Seems like the yellow cabs are being displaced by Uber drivers in black Suburbans. Thousands of them. They really don't care if you are in their way or not.
Now, if the driver backed up and proceeded west on 59th (also known as Central Park South) the horse drawn carriages gather around Sixth Avenue and it is pretty safe near them (except for the occasional road apple).