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blaringly obviously filmed in LA


it's like they didn't even made the smallest effort to make it seem NYish. For chrissakes she's chased by CHP on the way to JFK!!

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Actually.... not really LA. I know this is an old post but its very much NYC.. i recognize many of the street scenes very well as being NY. Could be green screens from inside the car... and of course some of the indoor scenes though very well could be in LA.. however even some of the JFK chase scenes looked like NY. And for what its worth, NYPD has bike cops too..

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In the chase scenes, they seemed to alternate between on location in NYC and downtown LA. I lived in both cities for many years, so I can usually tell. They (like many other TV and movie producers) used Spring St in downtown L. A., because it has a lot of older buildings that could easily pass for NY. What inevitably happens is that an LACMTA bus gets seen in the background, and they definitely don't look like (NY) MTA buses! 

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