New York
28 films and 179 exactly located places in New York.
Where it was shot · 179 places mapped
Films (28)
- Black Swan (2010)
2 exact places
The ballet world of New York was partly shot in Westchester, and the nightclub is in Chinatown - Catch Me If You Can (2002)
1 exact places
A con man's chase across continents, filmed on stand-in locations from Los Angeles to Quebec City, with Montreal as the final shooting stop - Ghostbusters (1984)
10 exact places
The firehouse is in Tribeca, but its inside, the library stacks and the hotel are all in Los Angeles - Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
12 exact places
Lost in New York, but the toy store, the hotel pool and the suite are Chicago, and the uncle's house is a Los Angeles backlot. - Joker (2019)
13 exact places
Gotham is New York and New Jersey in disguise: the Joker Stairs are a Bronx street, Wayne Manor is a shipbuilding college on Long Island, and Arkham is an Army depot in Brooklyn. - Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003)
5 exact places
A New York story filmed in Brooklyn and Long Island, with a Toronto detour and the finish in a Mumbai studio. - Letters to Juliet (2010)
4 exact places
A fictional heroine's trip through Verona and Tuscany, filmed in real squares, a villa near Verona and Siena. - Léon: The Professional (1994)
4 exact places
A New York hitman's home is a hotel on 23rd Street, most of its rooms are a French studio, and the school at the end is in New Jersey. - Marty Supreme (2025)
3 exact places
London's Wembley is a New Jersey arena, the Ritz is New York's Plaza, and Cairo's pyramids are a beach in Rye. - Ocean's 8 (2018)
10 exact places
From a Staten Island prison to the Met's Temple of Dendur: the heist was shot on real New York locations, from an East Village diner to a Brooklyn church annex and Cartier's Fifth Avenue mansion. - Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
1 exact places
Almost none of the New York in this film is in New York: a Venice hotel, a Paris station, a Montreal prison and a Rome studio stand in for it - Rosemary's Baby (1968)
5 exact places
The Gothic Manhattan building is the Dakota, but every room inside it was built in Hollywood - Scent of a Woman (1992)
5 exact places
A blind colonel's Thanksgiving weekend in New York ran through the Waldorf, the Plaza and the Pierre, while the Baird School that frames it was filmed in Troy and at Princeton. - Spider-Man (2002)
9 exact places
Peter Parker's New York was half Manhattan and half Los Angeles: the lab, the Bugle offices and Times Square each have a stand-in on the West Coast - Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
5 exact places
The New York of Peter Parker's year was mostly built in Atlanta, with a few real stops in Queens, Berlin and Staten Island - Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
2 exact places
The New York you see is mostly a Georgia studio lot, with Greenwich Village and Queens only as background plates. - The Apartment (1960)
3 exact places
A New York office tower, an apartment on a studio lot, and the real bench in Central Park between them - The Avengers (2012)
2 exact places
The Battle of New York was filmed in Cleveland, and Germany's Stuttgart is an Ohio downtown corner - The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
14 exact places
Paris fashion week was shot in two days of exteriors; the Paris hotel interiors are a Manhattan hotel. - The Devil's Advocate (1997)
6 exact places
A New York of glass towers, built from a Wall Street office, a lent penthouse, a New Jersey courthouse and a Florida shop - The French Connection (1971)
15 exact places
A Marseille harbour lunch, a Santa suit in Brooklyn, and a car racing an elevated train under the tracks of Bensonhurst. - The Irishman (2019)
14 exact places
Philadelphia on screen, Queens and Long Island on set: where the Irishman was really shot. - The Lost Weekend (1945)
4 exact places
A New York bar that was really built in Hollywood, and one hospital ward that was real - The Usual Suspects (1995)
1 exact places
A New York lineup shot in Los Angeles, and a San Pedro harbor that opens the film - The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
8 exact places
The Wall Street offices, Long Island mansions and Italian coast of Jordan Belfort's rise, most of them filmed around New York - Wall Street (1987)
7 exact places
Gordon Gekko's Wall Street was shot all over New York: the real Stock Exchange floor, offices at 222 Broadway, the 21 Club, the Roosevelt Hotel ballroom and a Hamptons mansion. - When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
8 exact places
Twelve years of New York talk, and most of the places can be walked into today - You've Got Mail (1998)
6 exact places
Two rival booksellers write to each other every night, and the whole story fits inside a few blocks of the Upper West Side.
Set in vs. shot in
| Film | Story setting | Shot in |
|---|---|---|
| The Devil Wears Prada Set here and shot here | New York, Paris | New York, Paris |
| Ghostbusters Set here and shot here | New York | Los Angeles, New York |
| Home Alone 2: Lost in New York Set here and shot here | Chicago, New York, Winnetka, Illinois | Chicago, Evanston, Illinois, Los Angeles, New York |
| Kal Ho Naa Ho Set here and shot here | New York | Hoboken, New York, Toronto |
| Léon: The Professional Set here and shot here | New York | Hoboken, New Jersey, New York |
| Letters to Juliet Set here and shot here | New York, Siena, Tuscany | Castelnuovo Berardenga, Grezzana, Montalcino, New York |
| Marty Supreme Set here and shot here | Cairo, London, New York | East Rutherford, Elizabeth, New York, Rye |
| Ocean's 8 Set here and shot here | New York | New York |
| Once Upon a Time in America Set here and shot here | New York | Hoboken, Louiseville, Montreal, New York |
| Rosemary's Baby Set here and shot here | New York | Los Angeles, New York, Santa Catalina Island |
| Spider-Man Set here and shot here | New York | Burbank, Culver City, Los Angeles, Los Angeles area |
| Spider-Man: Homecoming Set here and shot here | , Berlin, New York | Atlanta, Berlin, Fayetteville, New York |
| Spider-Man: No Way Home Set here and shot here | New York | Atlanta, Brooklyn, Fayetteville, New York |
| The Apartment Set here and shot here | New York | New York |
| The Avengers Set here and shot here | Kolkata, New York, Stuttgart | Albuquerque, Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, New York |
| The Devil's Advocate Set here and shot here | Gainesville, New York | Hackensack, Jacksonville, New York |
| The French Connection Set here and shot here | Marseille, New York, Washington, D.C. | Cassis, Marseille, New York, Washington, D.C. |
| The Irishman Set here and shot here | New York, Philadelphia | Ardsley, NY, Avenel, NJ, Baldwin, NY, Farmingdale, NY |
| The Lost Weekend Set here and shot here | New York | Los Angeles, New York |
| The Usual Suspects Set here and shot here | Los Angeles, New York | Los Angeles, Malibu, New York, New York City |
| When Harry Met Sally... Set here and shot here | Chicago, East Rutherford, New York | Chicago, East Rutherford, Los Angeles, New York |
| You've Got Mail Set here and shot here | New York | New York |
| Black Swan Set elsewhere, shot here | New York | |
| Catch Me If You Can Set elsewhere, shot here | Marseille, Miami, Montrichard | Altadena, Burbank, Downey, Los Angeles |
| Scent of a Woman Set elsewhere, shot here | New York, Port Washington, Princeton, Troy | |
| The Wolf of Wall Street Set elsewhere, shot here | Ardsley, New York, Bayville, New York, Closter, New Jersey, Harrison, New York | |
| Wall Street Set elsewhere, shot here | Bridgehampton, New York |
Walkable clusters of filming places
- 63 places within about 1.5 km, around 57th Street subway station, Sixth Avenue (19 films)
- 29 places within about 1.5 km, around Civic Center (17 films)
- 14 places within about 1.5 km, around Upper West Side (6 films)
- 12 places within about 1.5 km, around Greenwich Village · East 11th St (9 films)
- 8 places within about 1.5 km, around Manhattan · East Harlem (5 films)