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Film Locations: You’ve Got Mail on the Upper West Side
You’ve Got Mail filmed on the Upper West Side. Image source: Moda Chicago. “Do you know what? We are going to seduce them. We’re going to seduce them with our square footage, and our discounts, and...
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Film Locations: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty in Morningside Heights
James Thurber’s wondrously imaginative tale of Walter Mitty was first published as a short story in The New Yorker as “The Secret life of Walter Mitty.” The brief story, soon to be on the big screen...
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“One PM Central Standard Time” Recreates the Newscast That Announced JFK’s...
Colonial Pictures’ recreation of the CBS Newsroom circa November 22, 1963, the day Walter Cronkite broke the news to the nation that John F. Kennedy had been assassinated. Courtesy of Colonial...
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Film Locations: Leonardo DiCaprio at JFK Airport’s TWA Flight Center in...
Catch Me If You Can, based on the true story of Frank Abegnale, Jr., follows the young con artist from New Rochelle to New York City, Los Angeles, Atlanta, New Orleans and all the way to France. After...
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Film Locations: Boardwalk Empire in Brooklyn
For a show based in Atlantic City, Boardwalk Empire sure spends a lot of time in New York City. This might be due to the prevalence of mob life on the show, or perhaps the 15% tax breaks offered by the...
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Film Locations: Boardwalk Empire in Manhattan, Queens & Staten Island
Yesterday we rounded up Boardwalk Empire‘s filming locations in Brooklyn, where much of the series has been filmed. Today we’re showing you some of the places in Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island...
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Fun Maps: Plotting Out All the Manhattan Addresses of Law and Order Season 1
Why not plot out all of the addresses mentioned in the first season of Law and Order? This map by Brooklyn-based artist Dorothy Gambrell of Very Small Array lets you pretend just a little more that...
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Film Locations: Orange is the New Black in NYC
Orange is the New Black (second season coming soon!), based on the memoirs of Park Slope resident Piper Kerman, films mostly at Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, just one floor above the Sesame Street...
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Film Locations: “White Collar” Season 4 in New York City
After season four ended with a major cliffhanger, the hit USA network show White Collar is coming back with season five on January 9. Season four was quite a whirlwind adventure, and the show’s...
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Fresh Pond Crematory, Boardwalk Empire Film Location and the First...
Middle Village, Queens is not known for tourist attractions, but if you make it to the Metropolitan Avenue stop on the M train, bypass the insipid Metro Mall and take a right on Mt. Olivet Crescent....
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Film Locations: “The Wolf of Wall Street” in NYC
Martin Scorsese’s newest film, The Wolf Of Wall Street follows the life of the extravagant self-made stock broker Jordan Belfort who flourished (and fell) on Wall Street. While there has been debate...
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Film Locations: Inside Llewyn Davis in 1960s NYC
Joel and Ethan Coen’s latest film, Inside Llewyn Davis, is a dark comedy about a week in the life of an aspiring folk singer played by Oscar Isaac. Loosely based on real life folk musician Dave Van...
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NYC That Never Was: The Secrets of Hudson University
Strapping young Dick Grayson sporting a Hudson sweater as he bids farewell to Bruce and Alfred. (Image from Batman #217 via iFanboy) New York City isn’t exactly a “college town,” but for TV buffs the...
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Film Locations: Where the NYC & NJ Scenes in American Hustle Were Really Filmed
Photo Credit: Mark Peterson via Vulture David O. Russell’s crime comedy-drama American Hustle is loosely based on the Abscam Scandal, but serves more as an excuse to explore an eccentric ensemble of...
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An Offer You Can’t Refuse: 10 NYC Film Locations for The Godfather
The film your uncle will not shut up about every time it is on TV, The Godfather is one of the premier films set in NYC. Besides being nominated for 11 Academy Awards in 1973 and inspiring many...
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Film Locations: Comedy Central’s New NYC Hit “Broad City”
Broad City is a new and quirky show on Comedy Central that documents the lives of 20-somethings Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer who are living on their own in Brooklyn, making the most of their...
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NYC and Paris Film Locations: Billy Wilder’s and Sydney Pollack’s Sabrina
A classic love story, told in two different ways. Samuel A. Taylor’s romantic comedy play Sabrina Fair has been adapted twice for the silver screen. The first time was in 1954, filming on location in...
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Film Locations: “The Royal Tenenbaums,” Wes Anderson’s Only Film Set in NYC
Throughout his career, Wes Anderson has set each of his films in an idiosyncratic and highly stylized world. Yet, only one of his eight films is set in NYC: The Royal Tenebaums, widely considered his...
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“AHOY SEXY!”: NYC Film Locations for Noah Baumbach’s Frances Ha
Noah Baumbach’s 2013 comedy-drama Frances Ha, follows a 27 year old directionless alternative dancer named Frances (played by the director’s wife Greta Gerwig), who is trying to figure out her life. We...
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#MonthofScorsese: NYC Film Locations for Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets
Martin Scorsese on the corner of Hester & Baxter Streets 1973 (Photo via The Hollywood Reporter) This April, we at Untapped Cities have decided to pay homage to one of the most influential and...
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