Walking tour of film and TV locations in NYC
Author Name: NYC GovFile Size: 16.59 MBRating Value: 5(1)
Publish Time: 2011-05-10Version: Tribeca to City HallOperating System: WindowsAvailable Languages: English
About Made in New York for Windows Tribeca to City Hall: The Mayor’s Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting has decided to release this audio guide that will lead you through New York in a new and interesting way. You'll be able to walk through the city and know the places where the most famous movies and TV shows where filmed.This first audio guide will guide you from Tribeca to City Hall. passing by the Odeon, Faley Square and more.It begins from Tribeca at the permanent home of the Tribeca Film Festival, then it passes by the Engine Ladder Company 8, headquarters for the Ghostbusters crew. Go ahead and you'll be at the corner that was home to the diner where Bridget Fonda worked as a waitress in It Could Happen to You, the same site of a billboard in Enchanted, and of an open casting call line in City Island, with Andy Garcia as an aspiring actor.If you continue, you'll see the old Western Union building, whose exteriors were used for Leonardo DiCaprio’s office building in Revolutionary Road. You can enter the Odeon, Bright Lights, Big City was set here, and Martin Scorsese staged a fight scene at the bar in his contribution to New York Stories.The fifth point of the guide sets you in the place where Brothers Gédéon and Jules Naudet captured footage of the first airliner hitting the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 while they were filming a documentary about life at the fire company in that street.Continue the guide and you'll know places where lots of movies took place: Kramer Vs. Kramer, Crocodile Dundee, The devil wears Prada, 12 angry men... to finish the tour nearby Brooklyn Bridge, one of the City’s biggest movie stars.Copy this audio tour on your mp3 player, wear your shoes and know New York City in a cinematographic way.
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