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Dec 7, 2021 · In red in the map below, we have highlighted more than 50 special locations from New York cinema history. Some are iconic onscreen moments that require little explanation. Others are the...
- A Self-Guided New York Film Locations Walking Tour
- The Met
- The Plaza Hotel
- Tiffany’s
- Radio City Music Hall
- Times Square
- Grand Central Terminal
- New York Public Library
- Empire State Building
- Katz’s Deli
Start your New York film locations walking tour at the Metropolitan Museum of Art at 1000 Fifth Avenue. The nearest subway station is 86th Street, which is on the route of the 4, 5 and 6 trains. From the station it’s around a 10-minute walk to the museum.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art(aka The Met) is one of the world’s largest art museums, and its main building stretches for a quarter of a mile along Fifth Avenue. There are over two million items in the Met’s collection across 5000 years of history, with everything from ancient Greek sculptures to artworks by Monet, Van Gogh and Picasso. On screen,...
The Plaza Hotel* opened in 1907 and gets its name from the Grand Army Plaza which it’s located on. It stretches over 21 floors and was built to look like a French Renaissance château. It’s one of the city’s most luxurious – and expensive – hotels, and a stay in its lavish Royal Plaza Suite will set you back an eye-watering $40,000 a night. Over the...
With its polished marble exterior and sparkling window displays, Tiffany’s is one of the world’s best-known jewellery stores (who hasn’t coveted one of their turquoise boxes?). It became part of movie history in 1961 when Audrey Hepburn stepped out of a cab and stood looking through the shop’s window in the opening scenes of Breakfast at Tiffany’s....
The Art Deco Radio City Music Hall* is part of the Rockefeller Center. It was the largest indoor theater in the world when it was built in the 1930s and has had over 300 million visitors since then. The main stage is the length of a city block and the theatre’s Rockettes dance troupe have been high-kicking their way across it for the last 90 years....
Over 330,000 people normally pass through bustling Times Square each day, making it one of the world’s most visited tourist destinations. But in the Tom Cruise film Vanilla Sky(2001), Times Square is completely deserted after the production team got special permission to empty it of people and cars for three hours early one Sunday. Will Smith also ...
Grand Central Terminal was built in 1913 and is a US National Historic Landmark, as well as still being one of the city’s busiest transport hubs. The station exterior and Park Avenue Viaduct were the site of the Battle of New York in 2012’s The Avengers. The main concourse was used for a flash mob scene at the end of the Justin Timberlake film Frie...
With its marble walls, grand staircases, chandeliers and ceiling fescoes, the New York Public Library is one of my favourite New York buildings. On screen it stood in for the foyer of The Met in The Thomas Crown Affair (1999). But it’s probably best known as the place where the Ghostbustershunted down the ghost of librarian Eleanor Twitty (1984). T...
The 103-storey Art Deco Empire State Building* has to be one of New York’s most iconic buildings. And the first time many of us ever saw it was on screen with a giant gorilla swinging around the top of it in the original 1933 monster film King Kong. Since then it’s been used in over 250 films and TV shows, including Superman II (1980), where Christ...
Katz’s Deli on the Lower East Side was founded in 1888 and is known for its giant pastrami on rye sandwiches. It got its big screen break in When Harry Met Sally(1989), as the place where Meg Ryan faked an orgasm over lunch with Billy Crystal. You can sit in her spot under a sign saying “Where Harry met Sally… hope you have what she had!” The deli ...
Feb 22, 2024 · From Central Park to Times Square, in this guide we'll discover where your favorite movies were filmed in New York City.
- Have you been searching for a guide to famous filming locations in NYC that’ll offer a serious hit of Hollywood magic? Join me as I run through the most iconic filming locations in NYC that have appeared in films over the years!
- The Plaza Hotel. Address: 768 5th Ave, New York, NY 10019, United States. Phone: +1 212-759-3000. Closest subway station: 5 Av/59 St. To kick off my list of different filming locations in NYC, it’s the iconic Plaza Hotel!
- Katz’s Deli. Address: 205 E Houston St, New York, NY 10002, United States. Phone: +1 212-254-2246. Closest subway station: 2 Av. Next on my list of the best NYC filming locations , it’s the iconic Katz’s Deli.
- Times Square. Address: Broadway, 7th Avenue, 42nd and 47th Streets. Closest subway stations: Times Sq–42 St. My next suggestion for movie locations in NYC, is the bright and beautiful Times Square.
- Taxi Driver (1976) Directed by Martin Scorsese. Starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd. Crime, Drama (1h 54m) 8.2 on IMDb — 96% on RT. Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver is one of the best movies I've ever seen, whether we're talking about movies set in New York City or all movies ever made.
- The Godfather (1972) Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Starring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan. Crime, Drama (2h 55m) 9.2 on IMDb — 97% on RT. When it comes to classic movies, few are as iconic as The Godfather.
- Ghostbusters (1984) Directed by Ivan Reitman. Starring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver. Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi (1h 45m) 7.8 on IMDb — 95% on RT.
- Goodfellas (1990) Directed by Martin Scorsese. Starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci. Biography, Crime, Drama (2h 25m) 8.7 on IMDb — 96% on RT. Everyone has their own pick for their favorite gangster movie, but no one can deny that Goodfellas is an almost shoo-in pick for number one.
Dec 6, 2021 · The greatest New York City movies, including West Side Story, Wall Street, The Warriors, Funny Girl, Saturday Night Fever, Midnight Cowboy, If Beale Street Could Talk, The French Connection...
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While our tours feature hundreds of locations to everything from the original King Kong to the new Avengers franchise, let’s count down the 20 most popular filming locations you can find in the Big Apple.
