New York TV and Movie Sites
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Our Classic Movie Sites Tour has Returned!
Featuring sites from timeless films such as Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Godfather & The Seven Year Itch
Come see the New York that once was...
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Want to give the gift of the Silver Screen to the movie buff or couch potato in your life? Give a TV & Movie Tour Gift Certificate!
For under $50 you can give an experience to remember! On Location Tours gift certificates make great gifts. Perfect for any movie lover or TV trivia master! Tour NYC or DC!
Tour Highlights:
- Follow the timeline of filming in NYC from classics to today's blockbusters
- See the manhole cover from Enchanted
- Feel like part of the family at The Cosby Show brownstone
- Visit the apartment building from Friends
- Grab a slice at the pizza place from Men in Black II
- Who you gonna call when we visit the Ghostbusters firehouse?
- Come ready to sing TV theme songs!
Details:
When: Daily at 11 am
Where: Near Broadway and 51st Street
Cost: $38 + $2 ticket fee
Duration: Approximately 3.5 hours
What You’ll See On Tour
More than just your standard New York Tour, this fantastic film tour is guided by some of New York’s best actors and actresses. These certified tour guides give you tips on how to get tickets to TV shows like Regis and Kelly, The CBS Early Show, Good Morning America, The Today Show, The Late Show with David Letterman, and The Daily Show with John Stewart. They’ll test your knowledge of every TV theme song you can remember and share lots of TV and movie trivia with you.
When you tour New York City with On Location Tours’ New York TV and Movie Sites tour, you will see for yourself where your favorite actors, personalities and characters from NBC, ABC, CBS, CW and HBO TV shows like Friends, Seinfeld, Ugly Betty, Gossip Girl, Will & Grace, The Apprentice, Law & Order, Mad About You, Sex and the City, The Cosby Show, Saturday Night Live (SNL), and many more, live, work, and play! You will also see 40+ filming locations from some of your favorite movies on these NYC Tours!
The Exclusive Central Park South
The Ritz Carlton set the scene for Regarding Henry, and The Plaza Hotel on the south side of the Park is the location in such films as The Way We Were, The Out of Towners, Crocodile Dundee, Almost Famous, Brewster’s Millions, Home Alone 2, and It Could Happen to You. Arthur, North by Northwest and Scent of a Woman were shot in the Plaza’s Oak Room Bar. The Plaza Hotel is the most filmed building in New York City. The Pulitzer Fountain in front of the Plaza was a site in Serendipity, Gossip Girl, Sex and the City, and The Apprentice. You'll also recognize the fountain as the model for the "Friends fountain."
Fabulous Fifth Avenue
While going down NYC’s famous Fifth Avenue, this New York Tour of TV & Movie Sites passes some of the most well known stores in the world like FAO Schwarz, featured in Big, Big Business, Mighty Aphrodite, and Baby Boom; Tiffany & Co., seen in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Sweet Home Alabama, and Borat; Bergdorf Goodman, a filming location from That Touch of Mink and The Apprentice; and Henri Bendel from Gossip Girl. You will tour your way down popular sites like the St. Regis Hotel from The Devil Wears Prada, The First Wives Club, Taxi Driver, Woody Allen’s Hannah and her Sisters, and Miss Congeniality; St. Patrick’s Cathedral from Spider-Man and I Am Legend; the Altman’s Building from One Fine Day; Rockefeller Center from Home Alone 2 and Elf; the GE Building from Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock; the New York Public Library was a filming location for Ghostbusters, Seinfeld, Spider-Man, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and 13 Going 30; and the Empire State Building from King Kong, Sleepless in Seattle, An Affair to Remember, Love Affair, and many TV shows, including How I Met Your Mother.
Nearby locations:
- McGraw-Hill Office Building, used for the exteriors and lobby of Elias-Clark's headquarters from The Devil Wears Prada
- Bryant Park from Head Over Heels, Howard Stern’s Private Parts, Project Runway, and Manhattan Murder Mystery
- The Belasco Theater from Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Bullets Over Broadway
- Radio City Music Hall, featured in Annie and The Godfather
- Al’s Soup Kitchen from Seinfeld
Flatiron District and Chelsea
We continue this Big Apple tour of TV and movie sites, passing the Flatiron Building, which you’ll see in the newer version of Godzilla, Armageddon, Spider-Man and Hitch. You will also see Madison Square Park, one of the major movie locations for I Am Legend. The Chelsea Hotel was featured in many films including 9 ½ Weeks, Chelsea Girls, Sid and Nancy, Chelsea Walls, and The Interpreter. The Empire Diner was seen in Men In Black II, Igby Goes Down, and many Woody Allen movies, like Manhattan.
Greenwich Village , SoHo, and the Meatpacking District
These fantastic New York sightseeing tours are full of fun celebrity spotting! Greenwich Village is chock full of celebrity residents like Sarah Jessica Parker, Liv Tyler, Julianne Moore, Uma Thurman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen.
You’ll get a chance to take your photos in front of the Huxtables’ house from The Cosby Show! And you’ll visit the apartment building that was home Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Rachel from Friends. You’ll also see parks like Washington Square Park from I am Legend, Enchanted, When Harry Met Sally and August Rush and Tompkins Square Park from Die Hard with a Vengeance. Stop in for a slice at Ben’s Pizza, one of the most famous pizza places in New York City, and filming location for Men In Black II.
Tribeca
See the firehouse FDNY Ladder 8 from Ghostbusters and Hitch; restaurants including Café Noir from Unfaithful, and Felix Restaurant from Big Daddy; and shops such as Yohji Yamamoto from The Devil’s Advocate, Pottery Barn from Friends, Barnes and Noble from Conspiracy Theory and Macy’s from Miracle on 34th Street and Elf. Other locations on these New York City tours include The TriBeCa Grand Hotel from Two Weeks Notice, The Puck Building from Will & Grace and When Harry Met Sally, The Avalon from Party Monster, Billy’s Bar from Rounder, the Hogs and Heifers bar which was the scene for Coyote Ugly and Someone Like You, and Tortilla Flats, a party spot in Sex and the City and She’s the One. The movie locations don’t end there! We’ll also show you sites from Midnight Cowboy, Rosemary’s Baby, Three Men and a Baby, Vanilla Sky, and many new and upcoming releases!
Lower East Side
Few places in America can boast such a rich tapestry of history, culture and architecture as New York's Lower East Side. However, this legendary neighborhood—the first home for waves of immigrants since the 18th century—is now undergoing rapid development. The Lower East Side was placed on the National State and Historic Registers in 2000.
On the New York Tour of TV and Movie Sites, you will see this fascinating and historic piece of New York City and catch a glimpse of Katz’s Deli, the location for the famous sandwich scene between Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally. Katz’s was also used as a location for Enchanted, We Own the Night, and Across the Universe. You’ll definitely want to “have what she’s having.”
The New York TV and Movie Sites tour ends at the world-famous Palace Hotel, a major location for Gossip Girl.
* In an effort to stay current, we are constantly updating our tours with new locations and cannot guarantee the presence of locations mentioned on our site. If you have a particular interest in locations from a specific TV show or movie, please let your tour guide know and we will do our best to accomodate your request.
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New York TV & Movie Sites Tour
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