The Müuse Atlas / Looks

Rowhouse and terrace streets

Continuous runs of attached houses, brick or stucco, most of them built before the Second World War. Long matching facades, front steps, and almost no space between one house and the next.

24 areas

AstoriaFilming in Astoria, Queens. Kaufman Astoria has a working studio lot on 36th Street. Most of the surrounding blocks are two family houses in brick and vinyl siding.Kaufman Astoria Studios, Steinway Street, Hell Gate Bridge
Bedford-StuyvesantFilming in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. About 8,800 buildings here went up before 1900. Do the Right Thing and Crooklyn were each shot on a single block.Stuyvesant Heights, Decatur Street, MacDonough Street
Brooklyn HeightsFilming in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn. The rowhouses go back to the 1820s and the neighborhood was the first historic district the city designated. The Promenade sits on a platform over the expressway.Promenade, Montague Street, Cranberry Street
BushwickFilming in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Two elevated train lines run through the neighborhood. Manhattan is visible from the end of several streets.Saint Barbara's Roman Catholic Church, Knickerbocker Avenue, Central Avenue
ClerkenwellFilming in Clerkenwell, London. The printing and watchmaking trades left brick workshop buildings on the streets north west of the City.Clerkenwell Green, Marx Memorial Library, St John's Gate
Crown HeightsFilming in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Eastern Parkway runs through the middle of it, 210 feet wide with a service road on each side. The blocks north of the parkway are brownstone and limestone rows from the 1890s.Eastern Parkway, Dean Street, Bergen Street
East VillageFilming in the East Village, Manhattan. The numbered streets are lined with walk up tenements, and Tompkins Square Park sits in the middle of them.the Bowery, East 6th Street, Tompkins Square Park
Fort GreeneFilming in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The park on the hill is Brooklyn's first and the streets around it are Italianate rowhouses from the 1850s. Spike Lee has been shooting here since 1985.Fort Greene Park, Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument, Washington Park
GeorgetownFilming in Georgetown, Washington DC. The stairs from The Exorcist are at Prospect and 36th. The rowhouses are Federal period and the sidewalks are brick.The Exorcist steps, M Street NW, Prospect Street NW
HarlemFilming in Harlem, Manhattan. The Apollo Theater is on 125th Street. Strivers' Row is two blocks of brownstones and Astor Row has wooden porches.Apollo Theater, Strivers' Row, Mount Morris Park West
Hell's KitchenFilming in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. The side streets are six story walk-ups with fire escapes on the front. Midtown starts one avenue east.Ninth Avenue, Tenth Avenue, Eighth Avenue
Lower East SideFilming in the Lower East Side, Manhattan. The blocks are tenements of five and six storeys, and Delancey Street ends at the Williamsburg Bridge.Eldridge Street Synagogue, Delancey Street, Essex Crossing
MénilmontantFilming in Ménilmontant, the 20th arrondissement of Paris. The old village is on a hill and its main street climbs 50 metres between the boulevard and rue des Pyrénées. Père Lachaise is on the lower slope.Rue de Ménilmontant, Place Jean-Ferrat, Église Notre-Dame-de-la-Croix
MontmartreFilming in Montmartre, the 18th arrondissement of Paris. The butte is the highest ground in the city and some of the ways up it are stairs rather than streets. Amélie was shot here in 2000.Basilique du Sacré-Cœur, Rue Foyatier, Rue Lepic
Notting HillFilming in Notting Hill, London. The blue door from the film is at 280 Westbourne Park Road. The terraces around it are painted stucco, four and five storeys.Portobello Road, 280 Westbourne Park Road, Lansdowne Crescent
Park SlopeFilming in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The ground falls away from Prospect Park to Fourth Avenue, and the side streets are rowhouses most of the way. The largest landmarked neighborhood in New York covers about forty blocks of it.Prospect Park West, Seventh Avenue, Fifth Avenue
PatersholFilming in the Patershol, Ghent. The medieval street plan behind the Gravensteen is intact and the lanes are cobbled. The Leie is along the south side.Gravensteen, Corduwaniersstraat, Plotersgracht
PigalleFilming in Pigalle, Paris. Boulevard de Clichy and boulevard de Rochechouart meet at Place Pigalle. The streets behind them climb toward Montmartre and are much quieter.Place Pigalle, Boulevard de Clichy, Le Trianon
RidgewoodFilming in Ridgewood, Queens. Yellow-brick rowhouses, wood-frame houses, porches, and blocks that have changed less than much of the surrounding city.Mathews Company, Myrtle Avenue, Fresh Pond Road
SohoFilming in Soho, London. The buildings sit on narrow plots four and five storeys high, with bars and restaurants at street level. Edgar Wright shot Last Night in Soho on these streets.Old Compton Street, Berwick Street, Wardour Street
Upper East SideFilming on the Upper East Side, Manhattan. The cross streets between Fifth and Lexington are rows of limestone and brownstone townhouses. The avenues are lined with apartment houses instead.Park Avenue, Madison Avenue, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Upper West SideFilming on the Upper West Side, Manhattan. Central Park West is mostly apartment houses from around 1930, and several of them have two towers on top.The San Remo, The Dakota, Verdi Square
Washington HeightsFilming in Washington Heights, Manhattan. The highest ground on the island is here and several streets turn into flights of stairs. The subway platform at 191st Street is 173 feet down.Bennett Park, Fort Washington Avenue, Overlook Terrace
West VillageFilming in the West Village, Manhattan. The streets were laid out before the 1811 grid and do not line up with it. The buildings on them are brick houses of three and four floors.Bedford Street, Grove Street, Commerce Street