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Katz Deli-When Harry met Sally
There are movie scenes, and then there are scenes. In 1989, Meg Ryan sat down at a crowded deli table, calmly explained to Billy Crystal that men can’t tell when women are faking it — and then proved her point, loudly, in the middle of lunch. A woman at a nearby table deadpanned the punchline.…
5 Pointz (Now You See Me)
The greatest trick the Four Horsemen ever pulled was making themselves vanish off a real building — and then the building vanished for real. In the climax of Now You See Me (2013), Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, and Dave Franco announce their final show at 5 Pointz, the graffiti-covered warehouse in Long Island…
Bethesda Terrace (The Avengers / John Wick 2)
Central Park has one spot where the god of thunder caught his ride home and the world’s deadliest hitman got fired over the phone — and it’s sitting right out in the open at 72nd Street. Bethesda Terrace is the park’s grand architectural centerpiece: charge your phone and head for the Lake. This hunt is…
Spook Central (55 Central Park West)
Forget everything you know about apartment hunting. When the Ghostbusters location scouts needed a building that could plausibly serve as a lightning rod for the apocalypse, they picked this handsome Art Deco co-op on Central Park West — and more than forty years later, fans still gather on its sidewalk, tilting their heads back at…
Ghostbusters Firehouse (Hook & Ladder 8)
Some film locations are just addresses. This one is a pilgrimage. At 14 North Moore Street in TriBeCa, behind a big red door and a bright no-ghost logo, sits the most famous firehouse on the planet. It’s where the Ghostbusters hung their proton packs in 1984 — and it’s still a working FDNY station answering…
Joker Stairs
In the Bronx, there’s a staircase with 132 steps — and every single one of them is famous. This is the West 167th Street step street, where Joaquin Phoenix danced his way into film history as Arthur Fleck in Joker (2019). Before the movie, it was just a local shortcut between two avenues. After the…
