NYC Filming Locations Guide
New York is the most filmed city on Earth — every block has a scene attached to it. This guide collects the movie and TV locations worth a detour, each one free to visit, most of them walkable from Midtown.
Friends Apartment — 90 Bedford Street
The real building from the opening credits, in Greenwich Village. Exterior only — the interiors were a Hollywood soundstage. The most photographed TV address in New York.
Ghostbusters Firehouse — Hook & Ladder 8
The working Tribeca firehouse where Ecto-1 lived. Its facade has barely changed since 1984 — a living piece of movie history.
Gossip Girl Filming Locations
The Met steps, the Palace Hotel, Grand Central — XOXO's Upper East Side is still exactly where you left it.
Grand Central Terminal Filming Locations
Avengers, North by Northwest, I Am Legend — Hollywood's favorite Manhattan backdrop for 70 years, with the films you can spot.
Times Square Filming Locations
Vanilla Sky's $1M empty shot, Captain America's awakening, the V-J Day kiss — the most filmed intersection on Earth.
New York Public Library Filming Locations
The Day After Tomorrow's tidal wave, the Ghostbusters ghost, John Wick 3 and Carrie Bradshaw — all on the same marble steps.
Rockefeller Center Filming Locations
Home Alone 2's ice rink, 30 Rock, SNL and the Lunch Atop a Skyscraper photograph — the holiday movie capital of New York.
Chrysler Building — Art Deco Icon
The gleaming crown that Spider-Man circled and Armageddon destroyed — Hollywood's favorite Art Deco target.
Ed Sullivan Theater — The Beatles' First US TV Show
February 9, 1964: 73 million people watched the Beatles play live at 1697 Broadway — the night Beatlemania began in America.
Want to see the scenes where they happened? Our NYC smart-glasses movie & TV history walking tour walks Grand Central to Times Square with AR overlays — the city's history, layered right onto the street.