# Film Hunt NYC

> Iconic New York film locations, hunted down.


## Posts

- [SPOTTED FILMING: The Rock Goes Full Lizard — Dwayne Johnson's 'Lizard Music' on NYC Streets](https://filmhuntnyc.com/spotted-lizard-music-dwayne-johnson-nyc/): Dwayne Johnson was spotted filming 'Lizard Music' on a New York street this week — curly gray hair, bucket hat, pizza in hand, and completely unrecognizable. Details on the Benny Safdie fantasy.
- [SPOTTED FILMING: The Families Stone — Brooklyn, This Week](https://filmhuntnyc.com/spotted-the-families-stone-brooklyn/): The Stone family is back — Sarah Jessica Parker, Rachel McAdams, Claire Danes and more were spotted filming The Families Stone in Brooklyn this week, 21 years after the 2005 holiday classic.
- [The Arconia (Only Murders in the Building)](https://filmhuntnyc.com/the-arconia-only-murders-in-the-building/): In Hulu's Only Murders in the Building, three true-crime obsessives — a washed-up TV actor, a broke Broadway director, and a mysterious young artist — turn their Upper West Side apartment building into a murder scene and a hit podcast studio.
- [The Dakota – Rosemary's Baby](https://filmhuntnyc.com/the-dakota-rosemarys-baby/): On the corner of 72nd Street and Central Park West stands a building that looks like it was designed to keep secrets.
- [Where Wiseguys Talk Shop: The Goodfellas Airline Diner](https://filmhuntnyc.com/goodfellas-airline-diner-queens/): Some film locations make you squint and guess. Not this one.
- [Lenox Lounge (American Gangster)](https://filmhuntnyc.com/lenox-lounge-american-gangster-frank-lucass-headquarters/): For 73 years, the corner of Lenox Avenue and 124th Street glowed with neon.
- [Everybody Loves Raymond House](https://filmhuntnyc.com/everybody-loves-raymond-house/): If you ever thought Marie Barone's "dropping by" was a sitcom exaggeration, a trip to Margaret Boulevard will set you straight.
- [The Hotel Chelsea (Léon: The Professional)](https://filmhuntnyc.com/the-hotel-chelsea-leons-apartment-the-professional-interiors/): Here's a plot twist worthy of Luc Besson himself: the building you think is Léon's apartment… isn't.
- [The Apollo Theater (The “Juice” DJ Battle)](https://filmhuntnyc.com/the-apollo-theater-the-juice-dj-battle/): Some hunts take you to a quiet stoop or a corner deli. This one takes you to the loudest room in Harlem.
- [The Carter (New Jack City)](https://filmhuntnyc.com/the-carter-new-jack-city/): Every empire needs a fortress, and Nino Brown built his out of one of Harlem's grandest apartment houses.
- [Rucker Park (Above the Rim)](https://filmhuntnyc.com/rucker-park-above-the-rim/): Some courts are courts. Rucker Park is a cathedral.
- [The Huxtable Home (The Cosby show)](https://filmhuntnyc.com/the-huxtable-home-the-cosby-show/): Brooklyn's most famous brownstone isn't in Brooklyn.
- [Cafe Wha? (Amy Winehouse)](https://filmhuntnyc.com/cafe-wha-amy-winehouse/): Let's be honest up front, hunter: Amy Winehouse never headlined Café Wha?.
- [How I Met Your Mother (McGee’s Pub on West 55th)](https://filmhuntnyc.com/how-i-met-your-mother-mcgees-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.
- [Madison Square Park (Broad City)](https://filmhuntnyc.com/madison-square-park-broad-city/): Before Abbi and Ilana were Comedy Central stars, they were broke girls with buckets.
- [Carrie Bradshaw’s Stoop (Sex and the City)](https://filmhuntnyc.com/carrie-bradshaws-stoop-sex-and-the-city/): It is the most famous set of steps in the West Village — maybe the most photographed doorstep in Manhattan.
- [The Cyclone Roller Coaster (The Warriors)](https://filmhuntnyc.com/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.
- [Joe's Pizza (Spider-Man 2)](https://filmhuntnyc.com/joes-pizza-spider-man-2/): Every superhero needs a day job.
- [Katz Deli-When Harry met Sally](https://filmhuntnyc.com/katz-deli-when-harry-met-sally/): There are movie scenes, and then there are scenes.
- [5 Pointz (Now You See Me)](https://filmhuntnyc.com/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.
- [Dumbo Manhattan Bridge View (Once Upon a Time in America)](https://filmhuntnyc.com/dumbo-manhattan-bridge-view-lauryn-hill-everything-is-everything/): Let's be honest up front, hunter: Lauryn Hill never filmed here.
- [Bethesda Terrace (The Avengers / John Wick 2)](https://filmhuntnyc.com/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.
- [High Line (Succession / I Am Legend)](https://filmhuntnyc.com/high-line-succession-i-am-legend/): You're standing on a railroad that refused to die — thirty feet above the street, walking tracks that once fed the Meatpacking District and, before the park existed, starred in a zombie apocalypse.
- [Museum of the Moving Image](https://filmhuntnyc.com/museum-of-the-moving-image/): The best film location in Queens is a building that shows you how film locations are made.
- [30 Rock](https://filmhuntnyc.com/30-rock/): Here's the best joke 30 Rock ever told: the show named after 30 Rockefeller Plaza wasn't filmed there.
- [Steiner Studios](https://filmhuntnyc.com/steiner-studios/): Full disclosure, hunter: the old version of this post was describing a completely different studio.
- [Kaufman Astoria Studios](https://filmhuntnyc.com/kaufman-astoria-studios/): If Steiner Studios is New York's modern studio city, Kaufman Astoria is its founding myth.
- [NBC Studios](https://filmhuntnyc.com/nbc-studios/): Some studios you visit. This one you ride — on cables.
- [Tom's Restaurant (Seinfeld)](https://filmhuntnyc.com/toms-restaurant-seinfeld/): Every TV fan on Earth knows this corner, even if they've never been to New York.
- ["BAD" Michael Jackson](https://filmhuntnyc.com/bad-michael-jackson/): One of the most famous dance sequences in history happened underground — and you can still ride the train to the exact spot.
- [The Friends Apartment building](https://filmhuntnyc.com/the-friends-apartment-building/): You know this building even if you've never seen Friends.
- [Spook Central (55 Central Park West)](https://filmhuntnyc.com/spook-central-55-central-park-west/): Forget everything you know about apartment hunting.
- [Ghostbusters Firehouse (Hook & Ladder 8)](https://filmhuntnyc.com/ghostbusters-firehouse-hook-ladder-8/): Some film locations are just addresses. This one is a pilgrimage.
- [Joker Stairs](https://filmhuntnyc.com/joker-stairs/): In the Bronx, there's a staircase with 132 steps — and every single one of them is famous.

## Pages

- [My Badges](https://filmhuntnyc.com/my-badges/)
- [Home](https://filmhuntnyc.com/): New York has starred in thousands of movies and TV shows — and we track down exactly where.
- [Contact Film Hunt NYC](https://filmhuntnyc.com/contact-us/): Have a verified filming-location tip, correction, collaboration idea, or general question? Email filmhuntnyc@gmail.com.
- [About Film Hunt NYC](https://filmhuntnyc.com/about-us/): Film Hunt NYC is an independent editorial project created by lifelong New Yorker Kenneth Edwards, also known as Phil M. Hunt.
- [NYC Film Locations Map](https://filmhuntnyc.com/map/): Use this map to explore Film Hunt NYC’s collection of real-world filming locations across the five boroughs.
- [NYC Filming Locations](https://filmhuntnyc.com/nyc-filming-locations/): Film Hunt NYC follows the stories behind the city’s on-screen settings—from neighborhood diners and stoops to historic studios and public plazas.
- [Silvercup Studios](https://filmhuntnyc.com/silvercup-studios/): Silvercup Studios is one of the largest film and television production facilities in New York City.
- [Film Locations](https://filmhuntnyc.com/film-locations/): ​One of the most famous dance sequences in history happened underground.
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