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Cafe Wha? (Amy Winehouse)
Let's be honest up front, hunter: Amy Winehouse never headlined Café Wha?. Her American debut happened a few blocks east, at Joe's Pub, on January 16, 2007, with the Dap-Kings behind her and Jay-Z in the room. But the Winehouse connection to this basement on MacDougal Street is real in the way that matters for…
How I Met Your Mother (McGee’s Pub on West 55th)
Everybody has a "MacLaren's." That one bar where the whole gang just… ends up. The booth that somehow knows your order. The corner where a thousand bad decisions turned into the best stories of your twenties. For Ted, Marshall, Lily, Robin, and Barney, it was MacLaren's Pub, three steps below their apartment and dead center…
Madison Square Park (Broad City)
Before Abbi and Ilana were Comedy Central stars, they were broke girls with buckets. In the pilot of Broad City — "What a Wonderful World," which aired January 22, 2014 — the two need cash for Lil Wayne concert tickets, so they do what any resourceful New Yorkers would do: they set up in Madison…
Carrie Bradshaw’s Stoop (Sex and the City)
It is the most famous set of steps in the West Village — maybe the most photographed doorstep in Manhattan. This is where Carrie Bradshaw clicked down in her Manolos, coffee in hand, narrating the city into her column; where she fought with Big, made up with Aidan, and carried home enough shopping bags to…
The Cyclone Roller Coaster (The Warriors)
Every gang story needs a finish line — and for The Warriors, it's a century-old wooden roller coaster rising out of the Coney Island dawn. The Scene The Warriors (1979), directed by Walter Hill, sends a Brooklyn gang on an all-night odyssey from the Bronx back to Coney Island after they're framed for the murder…
Joe’s Pizza (Spider-Man 2)
Every superhero needs a day job. In Spider-Man 2 (2004), Peter Parker’s pays in tips and trouble: he’s a delivery boy for a tiny Greenwich Village slice shop, forever late and forever apologizing — because stopping a bank robbery does terrible things to your delivery times. That slice shop is real. It’s Joe’s Pizza on…
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…
Dumbo Manhattan Bridge View (Once Upon a Time in America)
Let’s be honest up front, hunter: Lauryn Hill never filmed here. Her “Everything Is Everything” video — the one that made half the world want to stand on a New York street corner — was shot at Method Studios in Los Angeles, and its New York is a stylized city spinning on a vinyl record:…
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…
