About New York in the Movies

The purpose of this site is to provide a guide to filming locations in New York City. While its title and its main focus are about movies shot here, it also provides a few locations from television shows that were also set here in the city.

There are four ways to browse the various locations described on this site. You can browse by neighborhoods to see all of the locations shot within a specific area. You can browse by movie to see all of the locations from a specific movie, irregardless of where in the city it was shot. You can also browse by actor to view all of the locations where a specific actor shot scenes irregardless of movie or neighborhood. Or, you can search the entire site by keyword.

Since it is rare, but not unknown, for a scene’s interior and exterior shots to be filmed in the same location, where the two differ, this site tries to favor the exterior shot. In the Thomas Crown Affair (2000), for example, the curators of the Metropolitan Museum of Art refused to allowed filmmakers to shoot a movie about an art heist on its premises, so the foyer of the New York Public Library was used instead. Since in the movie, the action took place inside the Met that is the location this site would reference.

About the Webmaster

As a movie critic and a New Yorker, this site combines two of my great loves.

I have loved movies my entire life and can not remember a time without them. Some of my earliest memories are watching movies in a drive-in with my family, back in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where I grew up. I can remember seeing B-movies there when I was quite young, such as SSSSSS and The Boy who Cried Werewolf, as well as more well known movies like Diamonds are Forever. It's a love affair that has never ended. And it's a love that found an outlet when in 2000, I began writing movie reviews with two of my brothers for ThreeMovieBuffs.com.

My relationship with New York City is a little more recent, having moved here in August, 2001. I came here only to be near my girlfriend, Cheryl, who was attending school in Manhattan at the time. Having since been married, we are now living quite happily together as New Yorkers, and can't imagine living anywhere else.

One of the first things I noticed upon arriving in the city, was just how many places I recognized because of their appearance in movies and on television. I saw the Washington Square Arch and instead of thinking of our first president, I immediately recognized it as the place where Harry and Sally first said good-bye. Upon entering Grand Central Station, it was Robin Williams and Amanda Plummer, surrounded by waltzing commuters, who came to mind. And, of course, who can look at the Empire State Building without immediately imagining a giant ape climbing the side of it.

Although I immediately saw the potential in creating a website dedicated to showing the various filming locations that I recognized around the city, I somehow never got around to working on it. It was when I saw that Google had made their map interface available for public use, that I again considered creating a site with this purpose. And this time I didn't procrastinate, but finally got around to creating it.

This site and all of its content, apart from the photos taken from the movies themselves, is the copyright of Scott Nash, NewYorkintheMovies.com, and may not be reproduced in any means without written permission.