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New York Locations

posted 18 years ago by behollins
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I would like to visit the New York locations featured in this movie. But it's hard to know if the exterior locations were actual New York sites or if the interior locations were shot on a soundstage. The locations in question are:

1. Central Park. Was it really filmed there or somewhere else. (The IMdB site says so but with respect it isn't always accurate.) If so, which park entrance was used by Elsa's carriage?
2. The garage where O'Hara takes Elsa to pick up her 1946 Lincoln Continental Cabriolet. (It seems to me unlikely they took the car to New York from San Francisco (where it is seen later) just for this scene.)
3. Seaman's hiring hall (IMdB says this is the Maritime Union in New York but there's no address.) This could easily have been a soundstage.
4. The bar were Bannister gets drunk.
5. The marina where the drunken Bannister is dropped off on his yacht.

Does anyone know for sure about these locations?

[–] mikeoak840 18 years ago

Even if any or all of the above scenes were filmed in NY, after 60 years, they've probably been torn down. None of them, with the exception of Central Park, had any historic or other significance. If it had actually been filmed on location in New York, that would've been disclosed in the filming locations section. Since it's not listed there, it leads me to believe they didn't shoot on location in New York.

[–] D515 18 years ago

Evidence that it is not Central Park... the original, existing stone wall that surrounds Central Park's perimeter is noticeably absent when the carriage exits.

[–] Felonious-Punk 15 years ago

Might it have been filmed in San Francisco?
I wasn't paying much attention to the setting my first time watching this, but the 2 cities do have their similarities: a big park in Golden Gate Park, big bridges, Chinatowns.

[–] NewtonFigg 11 years ago

I've lived in NY all my life. Nothing jumps out at me and says "real location". On the contrary, all the scenes say "sound stage".