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  • Five New York City location scouts tell us about the spots in the city that appear the most in TV shows and movies, from "Spider-Man" to "Succession."
    Find out where filmmakers go to shoot scenes involving business or government meetings, why the Brooklyn Navy Yard is a popular spot for filming stunt sequences and crime scenes, why movies and shows all end up at the same place to film prison scenes, and how "Joker" director Todd Phillips chose the right Bronx street for Joaquin Phoenix's iconic staircase dance.
    Malaika Johnson has worked as a location scout on films like "The Dark Knight Rises," "The Avengers," "Clifford the Big Red Dog," "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," and "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps." Eric Papa has worked on "Uncut Gems," "Billions," "Succession," "Black Swan," "The Bourne Legacy," and "The Undoing." Aaron Hurvitz has worked on "West Side Story," "The Irishman," and "Spider-Man: Far From Home." Samson Jacobson has worked on "In the Heights," "Uncut Gems," "Good Time," "If Beale Street Could Talk," "Inside Llewyn Davis," and "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)."Bruno Barros has worked on "The Many Saints of Newark," "Spider-Man: Far From Home," "A Quiet Place Part II," "Pose," and "Men in Black: International."
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  • @Illegal_Alien84
    @Illegal_Alien84 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1060

    Living in New York City sometimes feels like living in several movie 🎬 sets. It's exciting when you're walking or driving around and you immediately recognize a place from a movie or a TV show

    • @runningfromabear8354
      @runningfromabear8354 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Same is true in Toronto. I've heard a lot is filmed in Vancouver too but I've never lived there, so I wouldn't recognize it. But I definitely recognize a lot of stuff from Toronto when watching movies and tv.

    • @jaquigreenlees
      @jaquigreenlees 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@runningfromabear8354 I've lived in both, T.O. for 2 years so much I don't recognize but the Lower Mainland, 55 years so nearly every location I recognize.

    • @Imaworldstar-jw3yj
      @Imaworldstar-jw3yj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      i am studying english online
      be my friend
      Oh...oh.

    • @RaymondHng
      @RaymondHng 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Same thing with San Francisco. I've lived here my entire life. I can instantly identify the street in the background even when very little detail is shown. The buildings seen through the windows of the bus in the fight scene in _Shang Chi_ is the north side of Bush Street between Jones and Taylor.

    • @crazy5292
      @crazy5292 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      True

  • @thegoodpotatochip3047
    @thegoodpotatochip3047 2 ปีที่แล้ว +301

    0:00 underpass, 0:55 prison, 2:05 navy yard, 3:11 meeting room, 4:06 subway, 5:17 bar, 6:07 alley

    • @melodramatic7904
      @melodramatic7904 ปีที่แล้ว

      So they didn't include the fountain area in central park?

    • @baileyschultz4320
      @baileyschultz4320 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Where we dropping?

    • @thegoodpotatochip3047
      @thegoodpotatochip3047 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@baileyschultz4320 LOL

    • @themoonvibez3780
      @themoonvibez3780 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They didn’t wanna say where “the spot” for the stairs is bc it’s in the Bronx and no one wants to go to the Bronx!!

  • @BradThePitts
    @BradThePitts 2 ปีที่แล้ว +436

    The lobby entrance of the Empire State Building can be seen in Elf, Independence Day, Sleepless In Seattle, How I Met Your Mother, Gossip Girl, Superman, and countless classic films before the 1970's.

    • @michaelmagic988
      @michaelmagic988 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      yep to bad the planes flew into it on 911. thanks a lot saddam

    • @BradThePitts
      @BradThePitts 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @Sanctus Paulus 1962 It's either a spam comment or someone that's confused. A military airplane blinded by thick fog crashed into the Empire State Building in the 40's.

    • @michelveraliot
      @michelveraliot 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Or just someone that confuse the world trade with the empire stade

    • @michaelmagic988
      @michaelmagic988 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BradThePitts thew planes crashed into the empire stupid building in the 40s like you said

    • @michaelmagic988
      @michaelmagic988 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@michelveraliot forget the empire state its toilet poo.

  • @nicolemar3975
    @nicolemar3975 2 ปีที่แล้ว +115

    fun fact: they filmed the Michael Jackson Bad Music Video at Hoyt-Schermerhorn Station as well

    • @DialloMoore503
      @DialloMoore503 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes, and it also appeared in “Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles.”

    • @fedoramcclaren4294
      @fedoramcclaren4294 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yuuuup!!! And The Wiz!!!

    • @robroy6374
      @robroy6374 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Crocodile Dundee ll and Turk 182 were also filmed at the Hoyt-Schermerhorn Street Station.

    • @moonrocked
      @moonrocked ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@fedoramcclaren4294 hey I was wondering if anyone was going to say the wiz.

    • @fedoramcclaren4294
      @fedoramcclaren4294 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@moonrocked hee hee... ( :

  • @payme456
    @payme456 2 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    As someone who’s born and raised in Queens, the way she said Sutphin really made me uneasy 😬

    • @Early90sBaby
      @Early90sBaby 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Lmaoo! I’m from Chicago and even I felt uneasy listening to how she pronounced it 🤣🤣🤣

    • @spectator7186
      @spectator7186 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes so weird

    • @HeatherQuinlan
      @HeatherQuinlan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      As someone who also lived in Brooklyn it drove me nuts to hear Shermerhorn - probably not her fault, but whoever interviewed the scouts must've heard them say Skermerhorn

    • @GeneralZodFDNY77
      @GeneralZodFDNY77 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Facts. I took the Q6 along Sutphin most of my teen and young adult life. Hearing her pronunciation was like nails on a chalkboard.
      And her Schermerhorn pronunciation wasn't any better.

  • @Luboman411
    @Luboman411 2 ปีที่แล้ว +153

    I used to live near Cortlandt Alley pre-COVID. It's true. That alley is so damn atmospheric. It has everything you would ever need. Then there's another little alley just a few blocks east, but that one has all these Chinese signs. So if you want gritty Chinatown scenes, that's a perfect alley too. I also used to go to this very "New York" cafe right next to the Brooklyn Navy Yard in Dumbo when I tried to be a freelancer. I would simply walk from my apartment, cross the Manhattan Bridge, and then end up in this cafe. It was so atmospheric that once in a while whole busloads of tourists would get off and just take pictures of the cafe and us, the cafe denizens. For some bizarre reason it was almost always French tourists. Anyway, living in the very downtown part of NYC was a lot of fun. I lived close to so many iconic movie scenes. Now I live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which has its own atmospheric little corners but these are far less famous.

    • @SisterFromAnotherPlanet
      @SisterFromAnotherPlanet 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Picture striding down the runway that is Cortland Alley in the early 80's, dressed to the nines heading to Mudd Club. That is my fondest memory.

    • @Ricardo-cl3vs
      @Ricardo-cl3vs 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You honestly still believe in the covid?!

    • @littlehippo5004
      @littlehippo5004 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@Ricardo-cl3vs bro calm down

    • @Ricardo-cl3vs
      @Ricardo-cl3vs ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@littlehippo5004
      What makes you think I'm not calm?!
      Are you delusional?!

    • @littlehippo5004
      @littlehippo5004 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@Ricardo-cl3vs idk maybe your need to put an exclamation mark in everything. That's one dead giveaway. Also just the fact that you said anything at all when you could and should have just said nothing

  • @albertbatfinder5240
    @albertbatfinder5240 2 ปีที่แล้ว +133

    The critical thing about these particular locations is they are generic. Washington Square Park appears in a million movies, but it’s so identifiable it’s crying out for the audience to identify with it. Same obviously with Central Park. Sometimes a location can be as important as a character in the movie (think Grand Central Terminal in North by Northwest) and sometimes you just don’t want that.

    • @DialloMoore503
      @DialloMoore503 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I agree. Locations shouldn’t be overused, and that’s the problem with LA. So many locations here get used over and over again.

    • @robroy6374
      @robroy6374 ปีที่แล้ว

      yeah. it gets old after awhile

  • @amoscaul3264
    @amoscaul3264 2 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    That line about alley ways and LA Writers puts my question of "where are the alley ways" to rest. My whole life in New York, I know about 5.

    • @squiggleworks9
      @squiggleworks9 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I’ve always thought, ok, maybe I’m just not hitting up the parts of NY with these alleyways I see in movies. Couldn’t understand how I could live here my whole life and never see one but somehow they populate all these scenes set in the city

    • @amoscaul3264
      @amoscaul3264 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@squiggleworks9 Exactly!

    • @kenlompart9905
      @kenlompart9905 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Till now I thought NYC had alley ways all over the place because every movie I've ever seen set in NYC that had some sort of gang, mugger or bum drinking cheap wine scene was always shot in an alley somewhere.

    • @apseudonym
      @apseudonym 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      It's interesting how the way cities are portrayed in media seem to be different to how they are in reality. I live in Melbourne and it seems as if I am always discovering new laneways to explore

    • @amoscaul3264
      @amoscaul3264 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@apseudonym Very much so, honestly I've been on a discovery of my city as well.

  • @puffpuff5955
    @puffpuff5955 2 ปีที่แล้ว +170

    This is very impressive, i'd love to see more of these videos.

    • @ramencurry6672
      @ramencurry6672 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      These days a lot of movies and TV shows are filmed in Atlanta

  • @HarlemLeak
    @HarlemLeak 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I've been blessed to randomly walk outside my building and see a crew working those colorful no parking warning signs are always exciting to read seeing a few blocks changed to fit a set is a cool experience West Side Story was the best one yet

  • @goodfellaB
    @goodfellaB 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    This needed to be longer. Well done Insider

  • @MrNathancast
    @MrNathancast 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    I work as a background extra in nyc and usually get booked for law and order svu and we film in that subway station alot

    • @jutau
      @jutau 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      That's cool, how'd you get started doing that?

    • @Planet__3
      @Planet__3 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why do you need to get booked as an extra, it would be easier for them to just have random people in the background

    • @jutau
      @jutau 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Planet__3 I think there's a requirement with SAG.

    • @paulinezugzwang1773
      @paulinezugzwang1773 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@Planet__3 because people get excited to be in a movie shot, and they would ruin the shot by looking directly into the camera, or making noise when they are not supposed to. Also if they are several shots of the same scene, they need the same people to walk/be in the same spot for continuity.
      Also I'm pretty sure you can't film people and put them in movies without their consent.
      Like they said in the video, this subway station is not used, so there wouldn't be any background people anyway.

    • @SuccessforLifester
      @SuccessforLifester 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@paulinezugzwang1773 I ever encountered in some films the continuity of the street scenes were so bad that I saw the same people walking to and fro. Quite funny.

  • @181cameron
    @181cameron 2 ปีที่แล้ว +47

    Another NYC location they use a lot is Toronto.

    • @microbios8586
      @microbios8586 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Toronto can be Chicago or New York on film. It's versatile. It reminds me of cheesy Hallmark movies

    • @fedoramcclaren4294
      @fedoramcclaren4294 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yup...they used Canada to shoot the film Half Baked, I realise.

    • @181cameron
      @181cameron 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@microbios8586 Hahaha...and those are filmed just outside Ottawa!

    • @LongIslandCityLayout
      @LongIslandCityLayout ปีที่แล้ว

      "Jump In," a disney channel movie, was filmed there. It was meant to be Brooklyn and as a kid, it really fooled me. But as an adult, there are a lot of hidden easter eggs that give it away that it isn't NY.

    • @lloydmiller4439
      @lloydmiller4439 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yep they filmed a lot of Suits scenes in Toronto.

  • @kirkrotger9208
    @kirkrotger9208 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    I knew about Hoyt-Schermerhorn (pronounced "Skemerhorn") Cortlandt Alley, and Riverside Drive, but not the others. Interesting.

    • @zig8100
      @zig8100 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I was hoping someone said something about that lol Ski-Ma-horn lol If she road the subway she will know that.

    • @rockylikm
      @rockylikm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Thank you! Lol the incorrect pronunciation was killing me

    • @StamfordBridge
      @StamfordBridge 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      And there was also the way she said Sutphin.

    • @spectator7186
      @spectator7186 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      She says it how the automated announcer does on the train. Don’t even get me started with how they butchered Kosciuszko Street.

    • @littleblackduck3134
      @littleblackduck3134 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      'Sker mer horn' And 'Sup thin' blvd

  • @microbios8586
    @microbios8586 2 ปีที่แล้ว +125

    Can you do this for Atlanta? So many movies are filmed in the same exact spots in Georgia. Of course, the movies don't take place in Atlanta, so it's a little different but I'm tired of seeing the same few blocks of Peachtree Street portrayed as Los Angeles and New York.

    • @paulvincent3410
      @paulvincent3410 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I wonder if there's any locations in ATL that are not on a Peachtree.

    • @microbios8586
      @microbios8586 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@paulvincent3410 yeah Atlanta is lacking in many truly urban areas that look anything remotely like other cities.

    • @paulvincent3410
      @paulvincent3410 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@microbios8586 The best scenery in ATL is on a sound stage where Hollywood can get away with non-union labor.

    • @METALFACEDOOMXXXX
      @METALFACEDOOMXXXX ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@paulvincent3410 there's not lol

    • @GranTube
      @GranTube ปีที่แล้ว

      I don't know too many movies or TV shows that are filmed in Georgia except for parts of the first 5 episodes of the original The Dukes Of Hazzard in the 70's and a show from 2013-2018 called The Originals were filmed in a small suburb town of Atlanta called Conyers

  • @Glaamdring
    @Glaamdring 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Horseshoe Bar on 7th & Ave B is a legendary NYC film location.

  • @JohnOhkumaThiel
    @JohnOhkumaThiel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +171

    When I moved my acting career from NYC to LA, one particular day on set I heard this one guy in background going on and on about how the studio where we were working was inadequate in so many ways. It wasn’t inadaquate at all, he just wanted everyone to know that he had a lot of experience-though honestly nothing could paint you as inexperienced more than essentially bragging about how much experience you have.
    Finally I interrupted his diatribe by saying, “Wow, you would hate to work in New York!” He asked why, and I said, “We are almost never in a studio; the city itself is what you see in most scenes; we work on real locations nearly all the time.”
    Didn’t hear another peep out of the guy.

    • @Furrazii
      @Furrazii 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I'm trying to move to LA for mine, I have a small talent agency from Connecticut but I hope to get a better one when I move. How's it doing for you

    • @DialloMoore503
      @DialloMoore503 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Furrazii
      All the best!

    • @KumaBean
      @KumaBean 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      '...though honestly nothing could paint you as inexperienced more than essentially bragging about how much experience you have.'
      ...then you went on to essentially brag about how much experience you have, 🤣

    • @SASDFFify
      @SASDFFify 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      boomer take

    • @JohnOhkumaThiel
      @JohnOhkumaThiel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oh wow, "boomer," really hit my grandparents in the heart. How do I recover from such cutting intellectual wit?! Especally from a generation which has yet to accompish anything and therefore cannot be at fault! Man, or whatever, you totally got me there. Guess I'll just lay back on a pile of generational accomplishments and laugh myself to sleep about your cutting insults.

  • @subtractivemusic
    @subtractivemusic ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for speaking to location scouts and not critics.

  • @Native-Kitty
    @Native-Kitty 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I knew about the Hoyt-Schmerhorn subway station. I actually saw Law & Order SVU being filmed there while I was riding on the A train.

  • @bxdale83
    @bxdale83 2 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    I love how they didn't mention that the Joker stairs was in the Bronx

    • @violetaflores1322
      @violetaflores1322 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      I’m not surprised honestly

    • @fedoramcclaren4294
      @fedoramcclaren4294 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Oh wait...THAT WAS THE BRONX!!! It wasn't me!!!
      Wow...well, it won't get mentioned until the Grand Concourse is fully gentrified and redlined...
      There are also a gang of alleyways in the Bronx, but in between houses.

    • @maknyc1539
      @maknyc1539 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      rip

    • @madhatter1787
      @madhatter1787 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Yeah it's ridiculous how the Bronx always gets left out kind of like it's the ugly step child.... But I understand why they didn't mention it. The stairs got a lot of publicity from the Joker movie which in turn got a bunch of tiktokers to flood that location bombarding it day and night.all the local residents started to complain. I I was heading to 149th Street and I had to pass through this location and there was a legit long line of tiktokers and each one was taking a turn while the local residents were pissed and the local hustlers were annoyed.

    • @littleblackduck3134
      @littleblackduck3134 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They highlighted Highbridge on the map

  • @Stephen_Lafferty
    @Stephen_Lafferty 2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    I visited the Irish Haven over a decade ago with New York friends, and it looks just the same in your video as it did then - really cool!

    • @jaquigreenlees
      @jaquigreenlees 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It also looks like it was used in Boondock Saints.

  • @quique7764
    @quique7764 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I'm surprised more films aren't shot in Bronx.

  • @jonny5352
    @jonny5352 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    The flatiron building is used a lot too

  • @thebookwasbetter3650
    @thebookwasbetter3650 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I used to work in the 11 Madison Park building. Weekend at Bernies was filmed there. I didn't realize that until I watched it years later.

  • @hendagasparmartins5750
    @hendagasparmartins5750 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    you can do a whole episode just on Central Park locations 😉

  • @luisarozo1462
    @luisarozo1462 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It was amazing to watch joker and then realize that the stairs seen is one building down from my friends place and we had been there a thousand times.

  • @MakeyJu
    @MakeyJu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    what an amazing video idea! please make more like this

  • @heidichung2242
    @heidichung2242 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    They didn't include Doyers St and Pell St in Chinatown, which are also in countless movies.

  • @lemuelapperson853
    @lemuelapperson853 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Norfolk, VA has 'Magazine Lane' in the Neon District, Downtown. It runs between the old newspaper and TV station with connecting duct work. Both are Art Deco styled buildings. A few movies and commercials were shot there. Our main local production company focuses on crime re-enactments for shows like "America's Most Wanted". Our main local moving arts school produces the '700 Club', so TV is their focus as well.

  • @samykingson5427
    @samykingson5427 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    awesome series . keep going guys .

  • @nickborcic8177
    @nickborcic8177 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was a nice video. Thanks 😊

  • @smurfitoo1585
    @smurfitoo1585 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Michael Jackson video for the song bad was filmed at Hoyt also

    • @k364k364
      @k364k364 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cortland Alley was used for Vampire Weekend's Cousins

  • @meowlayla3769
    @meowlayla3769 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love videos like this

  • @andrewlee7787
    @andrewlee7787 2 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    the narrator is clearly not from New York. totally said Schermerhorn wrong 😂

    • @1474JOHN
      @1474JOHN 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I thought I was the only one who cough that

    • @fedoramcclaren4294
      @fedoramcclaren4294 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hee hee...
      Even folks from New York pronounce it incorrectly too...lol
      The trains say "Scher-mer-horn".
      Most people I know pronnounce it
      "Sche-meh-horn"...lol

    • @jsphat81
      @jsphat81 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s pronounced”skemahorn” at least that’s how the Brooklynites say it. I’m from Uptown.

    • @spectator7186
      @spectator7186 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@fedoramcclaren4294 those trains are from China, lol but the automated announcement does pronounce it wrong.

    • @fedoramcclaren4294
      @fedoramcclaren4294 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@spectator7186 Oooooooooooh, that's what it is?

  • @Double_Clutch_J.O
    @Double_Clutch_J.O ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I worked in Cortlandt Alley and was blessed to see a few films being made… was able to be an extra in one also… Insider actually filmed this piece while my job was operational… wish I would’ve gotten to see them

  • @FCT8306onTwoWheels
    @FCT8306onTwoWheels ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I spent alot of time as a kid in Soho and was always by the Ben's Pizza on Spring and Thompson where they did Men In Black, BIG had the handball court scene in the neighboring Park, and another thing from back in the day is standing on Thompson Street and Spring facing WTC you could see the Towers clearly. Soho, Greenwich Village and Chinatown are my favorites

  • @KNOWDUKATE
    @KNOWDUKATE 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    much needed one

  • @kaptenkrok8123
    @kaptenkrok8123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The warriors is such an awesome movie

  • @Geostat21
    @Geostat21 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    You missed Horseshoe Bar, aka Bar A. Used in a lot from Godfather 2, Crocodile Dundee 2, Mrs. Masiel, and many more.

  • @rebekahcuriel-alessi2239
    @rebekahcuriel-alessi2239 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fascinating.

  • @chrisstuart8261
    @chrisstuart8261 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Hoyt-Schermerhorn is pronounced “skemmerhorn,” btw.

  • @stephaniegormley9982
    @stephaniegormley9982 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    4:38 I love 'The Warriors' "CAAAN YOOOU DIIIIG IIIIIT?"

  • @joshualopez9259
    @joshualopez9259 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That bar they all use was also in "A Bronx Tale" that's cool, where all the motorcycle guys get beat up.

  • @tommyklein4050
    @tommyklein4050 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    There is a Diner on the border of queens and Brooklyn on Conduit Avenue that I would pass driving to my job site several years ago. It was in many scenes in Goodfellas. That were Robert De Niro kicked over the pay phone and started crying. It was cool to casually drive by a classic piece of Movie history driving back and forth to work. Goodfellas is also my favorite movie of all time.

    • @ruslanmovic9433
      @ruslanmovic9433 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It burned to the ground years ago.

    • @spectator7186
      @spectator7186 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@ruslanmovic9433 it didn’t burn to the ground, it was damaged from a fire but it’s still standing. Boarded up and closed though.

    • @littleblackduck3134
      @littleblackduck3134 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was in Maspeth, it's gone now

    • @GeneralZodFDNY77
      @GeneralZodFDNY77 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Um, the diner in Goodfellas wasn't on the Conduit. It was in Maspeth on Maspeth Av and Rust St.

  • @ajs11201
    @ajs11201 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Hoyt-Schermerhorn -- remember the city was settled by the Dutch. In "Schermerhorn," the "ch" is pronounced like a "k."

  • @yogaflower
    @yogaflower ปีที่แล้ว

    thank you!

  • @DamianHardy865
    @DamianHardy865 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    You know they not from Brooklyn when they say SHERMERhorn 😂😂😂 for anybody that doesn't wanna sound stupid it’s pronounced SKIMMERhorn

    • @fedoramcclaren4294
      @fedoramcclaren4294 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Even folks from New York pronnounce it without the other "r" too... Like "Sche-meh-horn"...lol

    • @DamianHardy865
      @DamianHardy865 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@fedoramcclaren4294 I never heard that and I been in NYC my whole life

    • @fedoramcclaren4294
      @fedoramcclaren4294 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@DamianHardy865 it is who we are around, I suppose.
      I have heard it pronounced "ske-mer-horn" as well, but I recall since the eighties of hearing it sans any "r" pronnounciation.

    • @littleblackduck3134
      @littleblackduck3134 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Shermerhorn is the way the A train conductors pronounce it, I always thought it was Skermerhorn

  • @caseyalan5398
    @caseyalan5398 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That bar was also used in Rescue Me. God I miss that show.

  • @yell0wberry
    @yell0wberry ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Don’t forget the Dumbo section with the Brooklyn Bridge in the backdrop, as well as the triangle in Manhattan, the row of Street in bed stuy Brooklyn with the old brownstones, as well as most back drops along the east river overlooking all the bridges going to Manhattan

  • @yisus5729
    @yisus5729 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    More videos like that pleaseeeee

  • @squiggleworks9
    @squiggleworks9 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The way she says Hoyt-Schermerhorn and Sutphin has me so tight. Hoyt-Skimmer-horn + SUT-fin 😑

  • @dluverm
    @dluverm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The Bronx is that Bad, they didnt even say where the Joker stairs was :)

  • @jutau
    @jutau 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I live 3 blocks from Irish Haven! What a cool fact to learn from this.

  • @isolaandthebaby
    @isolaandthebaby 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    A studio in Atlanta, Toronto, or Vancouver could not duplicate this. New York is always a good idea!

    • @jaquigreenlees
      @jaquigreenlees 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Vancouver has a concrete elevated parking lot with rail alongside that can and often duplicates for many US cities elevated roads, hills steep enough to be used for SF street scenes.
      Toronto has the Gardiner that gives the same elevated roadway sets and has enough old construction to match a lot of NY scenes. Even better, it has alleys to choose from. :P
      Never been to Atlanta but I can easily see there being ways they could easily duplicate many sets.

    • @Canleaf08
      @Canleaf08 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      hold on… Toronto has the lower Bay station which is also a set for subway scenes. And Vancouver is a film capital on it’s own…

  • @bakerkawesa
    @bakerkawesa 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Only film buffs notice the little details. We audiences are none the wiser.

    • @JohnOhkumaThiel
      @JohnOhkumaThiel 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      We usually change the street signs and such, because if we don’t then they become magnets for film location tourists. But usually the hardcore location stalkers figure it out and if it’s a particularly popular film, they’ll never stop going there-Amitville Horror house, the house from Home Alone, and so on.
      Studio lots, the only one worth visiting if you’re a hardcore fan in my opinion is Warner Bros. Studios in LA, though Paramount is pretty cool too. At Paramount they have building facades and a large pool for things like ocean scenes, but at Warner Bros. it’s all real buildings and they’re immediately familiar. The first time I had a gig at Warner Bros. I was really blown away.

    • @MONET8iAM
      @MONET8iAM 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And residents

    • @fedoramcclaren4294
      @fedoramcclaren4294 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They didn't mention The Bronx though...lol

  • @gerryfegan3608
    @gerryfegan3608 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    one of my favorite things to do is when watching movies or shows that are based in New York City is literally spotting out certain spots that I know exactly where they are

  • @yellowrain3601
    @yellowrain3601 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I second everything they said in this video

  • @HeatherQuinlan
    @HeatherQuinlan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I can attest to the Brooklyn Public Library, I worked at that location in 2015 for Cafe Society as Steve Carell's LA office and found myself right back there again for Paterno and a PA office

  • @robertjonas6216
    @robertjonas6216 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The lobby of The Edison Hotel in the theater district has been used many times. It is a good example of the Art Deco style of architecture and works in many movie genres.

  • @8avexp
    @8avexp 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    They use the outer tracks at Hoyt-Schermerhorn because they are out of service. They lead to the Court St. station, which is now the NY Transit Museum. And before it became the Transit Museum, it was used as a subway set.

    • @salvadorromero9712
      @salvadorromero9712 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I don't know whether to be more snooty about the mispronunciation or the incorrect platform information! But seriously folks, this was a pretty informative video.

    • @ambientstereorecordings3528
      @ambientstereorecordings3528 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@salvadorromero9712 It's not snooty.. it just a dead giveaway that someone doesn't know their way around NYC.. particularly, Brooklyn.

  • @danieldusentrieb4082
    @danieldusentrieb4082 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just wow

  • @oneleafaday348
    @oneleafaday348 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Irish Haven is only a block from where I lived in Sunset Park, very unassuming on the outside, especially during covid, but I love the ambiance. It's also not far from where the subway shooter opened fire

  • @metropod
    @metropod ปีที่แล้ว +2

    When the subway line Hoyt Schermerhorn is one was built, there was a new thinking in subway design. The line, the Fulton Street Subway, was built by the city as part of the Independent City Owned Subway System (which was usally just cut down to "Independent"), which was not connected to the two privaelty owned and operated subway networks, hence Indepenandt of private interests. when the lines were merged under city ownership in 1940, the network gained the three letter initialism IND to match the existing IRT and BMT.
    The city built the IND network on the idea that trains who were purley local would not cross the east river. So the two closed platforms at Hoyt and the two outer most tracks were for the local trains, while the tracks in use by the A and C were for the express. Local trains were to terminate/ originate at Court Street station several blocks west. That station was only open for about a decade and is now the New York Transit Museum.
    The line was incomplete when it opened, due to the depression and the coming of WWII. The A ran local as far east as Rockaway Avenue Station and Court Street was a shuttle, the HH (until 1985, lettered subway lines that were pure locals had double letter names).
    The filming location is the operational "southbound" track (the entire subway system only has "Northbound" and "Southbound" directions) with trains running westward (technically Northbound) towards the museum if possible. This track is also used to bring trains in and out of the museum, and is often used by paid "Nostalgia Train" rides, which often start at or visit the museum.
    The operational Northbound track is blocked off for storage of museum equipment in the tunnels.
    Hoyt's popularity as a filming location grew in the late 2000s when another useful location was lost. futher up the A and C trains is 42nd Street Port Authoirty Bus Terminal, part of the Times Square super complex. (a transfer complex so huge, the 7 line now stops TWICE in the same fare control area) the 8th avenue subway at that point had a single track lower level platform. Idealy it allowed the E train, coming off the line from Queens, to stop at 42nd street in the peak hours without causing a traffic jam, but it also prevented the 7 train from being extended westward...
    until they got the idea to extend it anyway, to the line's new terminus at 34th street Hudson Yards. The 42nd street platform, most famous for it's appearance in "Ghost", was punched through in the middle, allowing the 7 train to pass by.

  • @FCT8306onTwoWheels
    @FCT8306onTwoWheels 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    4:44 i think it was also used in Croccodile Dundee, that subway platform. Towards the end scenes where his woman was trying to find him

  • @AnvilMAn603
    @AnvilMAn603 2 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    fun fact about the joker stairs: the local residents avoid them due to all the crime that happens in that area

    • @mitchelllewis8864
      @mitchelllewis8864 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Where even is it though. I know there's tons of stairs like that around Riverdale.

    • @AnvilMAn603
      @AnvilMAn603 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ok that appears to have worked, gotta fix that yourself unfortunately but its a google maps link to the stairs

    • @Alexa-tn5st
      @Alexa-tn5st 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@mitchelllewis8864 highbridge, Bronx I believe

    • @AnvilMAn603
      @AnvilMAn603 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      lets see how long that link stays up lol *edit* seconds apparently

    • @AnvilMAn603
      @AnvilMAn603 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      yc38ystr lets see if this works, thats for tinyurl

  • @larry7898
    @larry7898 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Can you talk about next on why Toronto is often used to showcase as NYC in film! Or Vancouver as SF? Thanks!!

    • @FrothingFanboy
      @FrothingFanboy ปีที่แล้ว

      Exchange rate and government tax credits are typical reasons.

  • @JonathanMartinez-dc4xm
    @JonathanMartinez-dc4xm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The way she pronounced "Schermerhorn" and "Sutphin" is killing me

  • @mountainous_port
    @mountainous_port 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hey, in LA they have this bridge
    Sixth Street Viaduct.
    And it appeared in countless movies and music videos!

  • @RobandSijay
    @RobandSijay 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    IT"S PRONOUNCED "SUTT-FIN"

  • @anafangayen1368
    @anafangayen1368 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hoy Schemerhorn is my fave subway station!!!

  • @budjitresvalles6397
    @budjitresvalles6397 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Pls do other places… like LA, LV, etc…. HK, Paris, Dublin, London.. etc.

  • @themikelee
    @themikelee 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Fun video. They actually missed so many famous spots, like Bethesda Terrace (John Wick and many others), the overpass north of Grand Central (I Am Legend, Avengers), Sheep's Meadow, etc...

  • @nickbenke3306
    @nickbenke3306 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There's a street in Manchester, UK called Dale Street! Captain America and many other Marvel films used it! There always seems to be film crews around. It kind of resembles New York in the 50.s so that could be the reason. It's another feather in the world renowned cities' cap!

  • @ll7868
    @ll7868 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Vancouver has the same type of under-the-bridge viaduct below the Granville Street Bridge, it passes as New York or LA, the first FF movie used it. The Lion's Gate Bridge passes for a few NY bridges but is used mainly as the Golden Gate stand-in.

  • @lakerfaker
    @lakerfaker 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Irish Haven! Spent many late nights there.

  • @geoffreythomas1452
    @geoffreythomas1452 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Irish Haven was my local bar for awhile. So weird to see it transformed like that.

  • @cha5
    @cha5 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When I was first staying up in NYC my hotel was just opposite the building they used for Oscorp in the first Spider-Man movie.

  • @jonasbernal6642
    @jonasbernal6642 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow I live right by the underpass in Harlem I’ve noticed the areas been in a lot of movies but I never knew Spider-Man was filmed here that’s so cool

  • @maddygilbert4328
    @maddygilbert4328 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A lot of the times Toronto stands in for NYC. Our old T1 subway trains have stood in for NYC subway trains

  • @SuccessforLifester
    @SuccessforLifester 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I think the Joker's dancing stairs was also used in the film A Walk Among the Tombstones

  • @celtgod3
    @celtgod3 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Definitely want to see another done in LA!

    • @rks5457
      @rks5457 ปีที่แล้ว

      There would be too many examples

  • @MsSaraKirkpatrick
    @MsSaraKirkpatrick 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Do this with Los Angeles

    • @jb22885
      @jb22885 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No...L.A sucks

    • @LadyJay114
      @LadyJay114 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They always film at the LA River (which kinda isn't a river)

  • @priyac7054
    @priyac7054 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Daredevil though 💥⚡⚡

  • @anantahandley
    @anantahandley 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Pretty sure I recognise cortlandt alley from Casey Neistat’s videos too! Behind his office

  • @Sainizfynest
    @Sainizfynest ปีที่แล้ว

    I work in the bk navy yard. The amount of movies that are filmed there and the amount of celerities ive seen is pretty cool

  • @gregory596
    @gregory596 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Would like to see a similar video about San Francisco locations

  • @AZ4ZEL666
    @AZ4ZEL666 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I came here after i saw that Thumbnail
    The Warriors 1979 .
    god i miss this movie

  • @jsphat81
    @jsphat81 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I’m from Washington Heights so I will mention a location from my neighborhood. United Palace on 175th and Broadway. Used in In The Heights, John Wick 3, Luke Cage S1 and countless music videos.

  • @GeneralZodFDNY77
    @GeneralZodFDNY77 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Only one I had no clue about was the Brooklyn Public Library office. Now that I know, I have to see it in person. Off to Grand Army Plaza I go!

  • @wildheart192
    @wildheart192 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I live in North Kent, UK, which is highly unremarkable except Chatham dockyard is just down the road and it's various bits are in SO MANY films and TV shows. Children of men, sherlock Holmes, the golden compass, call the midwife, just off the top of my head.

  • @Canleaf08
    @Canleaf08 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    4:13 I used to think that they are also using the lower Bay station in Toronto for subway scenes.

  • @Tsicloh
    @Tsicloh 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Reminds me of when I lived in Cape Town.

  • @ender7278
    @ender7278 ปีที่แล้ว

    Could you make more videos on commonly used locations? Los Angeles and Vancouver come to mind.

  • @ms36000
    @ms36000 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hoyt "SKIMMER"-horn!

  • @nemesiorodriguez3808
    @nemesiorodriguez3808 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love the warriors

  • @rohithkumarsp
    @rohithkumarsp 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I've seen that bar in person or interest the last few eps of carter on season 3 when the rookie takes her to a bar,

  • @chris59499
    @chris59499 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ha! when I was a kid, I used to work in a clothing factory own by my uncle inside Cortlandt Alley

  • @wowo29
    @wowo29 ปีที่แล้ว

    That subway station was also used in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) as "City Hall" Station when April got attacked by the foot clan.

  • @DavidL-ii7yn
    @DavidL-ii7yn ปีที่แล้ว

    Being from Toronto, the city is in everything. I'm so tired of seeing Roy Thomson Hall again and again. I would randomly ride in the Rouge area and come across film shoots every summer.

  • @badmariamedia
    @badmariamedia ปีที่แล้ว

    You could do a companion piece on the streets of downtown Los Angeles that double for other US cities.