Tuesday, April 22, 2008

New York Movie Set Locations

In no particular order, or organizational method... here are the main spots we either hit, or any amature tour guide could easily locate to impress their non-New Yorker guests


  • Seinfeld "Soup Nazi" –Soup Kitchen International- 55th & 8th Ave
  • Taxi Driver - Merchants Gate- (Columbus Circle), St Regis Hotel
  • Ghostbusters, Lincoln Center Fountain Plaza-, and Courthouse (Downtown). Ghostbusters building- 55 CPW Apartment Building- Art Deco building
  • Elf- Bethesda Terrace, Empire State Building
  • Hitch- Steps of Met, City Hall Park, Wall Street Bull
  • Washington Square Arch-I am Legend, When Harry Met Sally, Hitch
  • Cruel Intentions- Lawn in front of the Pond (East side pond near zoo)
  • Rent- Vazac’s Horseshoe Bar- E. 7th and Ave B (108 Ave B- just off Tompkins Square Park)
  • National Treasure- Trinity Church
  • Flatiron Building- Spiderman, I am Legend
  • New York Public Library -13 Going on 30, Day After Tomorrow, Ghostbusters, Spiderman
  • FAO Schwartz- Big, Home Alone 2
  • Breakfast at Tiffany’s (store), Sweet Home Alabama
  • Plaza- Crocodile Dundee, Home Alone 2, Almost Famous
  • Sheep’s Meadow- It Could Happen to You, Wall Street
  • Grand Central Main Concourse (Madagascar)
  • 9 West 57th- Friends, Zoolander
  • Russian Tea Room- Tootsie
  • Serendipity- Waldorf Astoria
  • Puck Building- 295-309 Lafayette Street. When Harry Met Sally (New Years Eve Scene). Will & Grace design studio
  • Hook & Ladder Company 8- 14 N. Moore Street (Firehouse). Between Hudson (West Broadway) & Ave of the Americas in Tribeca. Hitch & Ghostbusters
  • Dakota- 1 West 72nd Street (John Lennon)
  • You’ve Got Mail- Gray’s Papaya, Zabars, H& H Bagels (UWS)
  • Friends Apartment- 90 Bedford Street at Grove (West Village) (Near Christopher Street/Sheridan Square subway stop) (Area between Hudson & 7th Ave, Bedford is parallel to Bleeker)
  • NY Courthouse (Wall Street, The Godfather)
  • The Pond- Home Alone 2
  • When Harry Met Sally- Katz Deli, 205 E Houston St, Between 1st & Ave A
    · Boathouse Restaurant- When Harry met Sally

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