There's no better movie set than New York. Here, we've mapped some of the city's most iconic film locations
Recent New York filming locations. Graphic: Marcus Peabody/Data from Mayor’s Office of Media And Entertainment, Microsoft, and the City of New York New York is not the easiest place to shoot a movie. The city is crowded, cranky, and expensive. So why do filmmakers keep coming back? Because the city has an energy you can’t get anywhere else: the bebop beat, the sidewalk theater, the sense that the unpredictable is just around the corner. The architecture’s not bad either.
Consider this map a love letter to the New York of the movies and the hardworking location scouts, production assistants, and other professionals who bring it to life. In blue in the map above, we have pinpointed the past four years’ worth of film permits from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment. 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.
“You make three or four movies, and all of a sudden everybody wants to be there,” says Peter Kalikow, the 79-year-old real-estate mogul who owns the building and has offices on the 25th floor. Like any good salesman, he’s happy to talk about why filmmakers keep showing up to 101 Park. It helped, he said, that when it opened in 1982, the tower was one of the first new skyscrapers built in the area in years.
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