Film Locations: Kill Your Darlings at Columbia University
Kill Your Darlings, filming in front of Low Library at Columbia University. All images from ZhaoAngela via Flickr. Thinking of the Beat Generation, a few things come to mind: unreserved sexuality,...
View ArticleFilm Locations: Law and Order SVU and Gone with the Wind at the French...
Detectives Benson and Stabler take a tour of the French Embassy. Image source: Netflix. You may have spent countless hours watching all fifteen glorious seasons of Law & Order: Special Victims...
View ArticleNYC Film Locations: The Godfather Part II, Crocodile Dundee at Vazac’s...
Five Corners, Angel Heart, and The Verdict, and the Sex and the City movie also filmed scenes in this establishment On the outside it looks like an ordinary bar, you would never guess it is place where...
View ArticleFilm Locations: The Lost Weekend, Mad Men, and Annie Hall at P.J. Clarke’s in...
Buddy Holly proposed to his wife Maria Elena at P. J. Clarke’s. Image Source: Wikimedia Commons by Jazz Guy What New York City saloon brings together Buddy Holly, Woody Allen, Frank Sinatra, Dick...
View ArticleFilm 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...
View ArticleFilm 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...
View Article“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...
View ArticleFilm 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...
View ArticleFilm 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...
View ArticleFilm 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...
View ArticleFun 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...
View ArticleFilm 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...
View ArticleFilm 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...
View ArticleFresh 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....
View ArticleFilm 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...
View ArticleFilm 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...
View ArticleNYC 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...
View ArticleFilm 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...
View ArticleAn 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...
View ArticleFilm 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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