I cannot remember what the address is, and I wanted to check if it is a real building in New York City. I wonder if it has survived if it is. I also wonder what other streets in New York City it was shot on.
shareExterior scenes for this film were shot in New York's Lower East Side. The name of the street the tenement was in was Oak Street, which really existed and ran between the Brooklyn Bridge and Catherine Street on the future site of the Smith Houses (which were completed in 1953, six years after the film was shot in late 1947). I found this out on a New York film locations forum. By coincidence, the derelict tenement where Bobby Driscoll was found dead in March, 1968, was just around the corner from the tenement that was used in "The Window".
shareActually the building where he was found dead in real life was 371 East 10th Street, between Avenue B and C in the East Village, then called Alphabet City. You can see the article here:
http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/a-former-child-star-dies-in-the-east-village/
I know in the movie the address he lives at is mentioned multiple times, I think it was 225 or 228. I don't think it was Oak Street, but I could be wrong.
I've just run the DVD of the film again to check and when he goes into the police station, he gives his address to both the desk sergeant and the detective as 225, Holt Street, but that could also be Oak Street, because he's talking fast with his being excited.
shareYes, I am pretty sure that was it. I had Hoyt in my head, but that's in Brooklyn. The killer also says it to the cab driver when they are driving back with the kid later in the movie. Thanks!
Could you post the address of the New York film locations forum you mention? Very interested. Thanks.
shareIt was shot actually on the upper East Side.
shareAny clue what address?
sharewell, around 106th Street, that is the El station in the film.
shareThanks for the info, though surely somebody out there must know the real address . . . all these web sites that deal with movie locations, especially in New York City . . .
shareA lot of urban renewal along 3rd Ave and adjacent side streets once the El was demolished, it may no longer exist. I'll have to check it out sometime.
shareYes, I know what you mean, the same thing here in Chicago---there's a scene in Call Northside 777 showing James Stewart (playing a reporter), coming around a corner, with a church in the background, and continuing down the street---the church still stands, though the street and all the houses are gone---and from the same thing, urban renewal . . . some other sites in Northside no longer exist either . . .
Also, the older the movie, the worse the survival rate---I'm assuming that almost all the locations utilizsed in Three Days of the Condor are probably available to see (except, of course, the World Trade Center), however, Window was released in '48---time does take a toll . . .
Window---one of the best movies RKO ever did . . . and those interior shots are exciting to watch . . .
East 67th Street (where Bobby Driscoll runs to the police station) is another location used. The 19th Precinct Station with the Fire Station next door still stands.
shareGreat! . . . wondderful, do you know how much else remains? Could some one do a tour of the movie sights? That's if enough remains . . . do you know if any ineriors were shot in New York? Ndew York Times had good things to say about The Window . . .
shareIt was all supposedly shot in NY, interiors where shot at the RKO-Pathe Studios in Harlem.
shareOkay, so the whole thing was a New York affair . . . it does feel it, I must say, I do believe it adds to the story . . .
shareyes it does
shareAt the start of the film, when Tommy runs across the top of the building, the roof layout and city skyline instantly reminded me of On the Waterfront and the roof space where Terry feeds his pigeons. Not saying it's the same building, but I'd bet they weren't far apart.
shareThat scene at the beginning where he traverses the rooftops gave me info upon further noticing of background objects.
I would put that area on the upper east side, like another poster noted. In the background we see a long passenger train being pulled by a box-cab electric locomotive. That was on what was then the New York Central RR's Park avenue viaduct, and the train is running under a signal bridge, many of which span on that viaduct. The RR comes out of the Park ave tunnel at 98th-99th street and runs elevated on a stonework viaduct till it crosses over the Harlem river at 138th street. Trains of a commuter RR still run on that viaduct today.
Later, when we see the boy make his way toward the police station you see him passing around/under that RR viaduct. I would guess, based on the demographics back then, that the neighborhood was in the low 100's street. As another poster noted, the 106th street subway station was seen.
Definitely Manhattan's upper east side, at least in some scenes.
The real address of the building is 225 East 105th St. The building still stands, albeit with a redesigned staircase, as does the building that housed the bakery and laundry next door at 227 E. 105.
The opening shot in which the kids are heading to the abandoned tenement is filmed on East 103rd St., just west of Lexington Ave. Some of the buildings in that shot are still there.
These locations are verified. Enjoy!