Five- and six-storey apartment blocks line the side streets, with the green wall of Fenway Park and the marshland paths of the Back Bay Fens close by.
What Fenway looks like
Brick walk-ups and brownstone townhouses line many of the side streets. Five- and six-storey apartment buildings stand among them, and small independent shops are scattered through the blocks. Major commercial frontage runs along Beacon Street and Boylston Street.
sits on Lansdowne Street and Jersey Street in . The buildings around it are of similar height and architecture. The Green Monster is the left field wall. It has been painted green since 1947, and light towers stand above it. The Citgo sign is seen beyond the wall when a ball clears it.
The is a marshland park with paths and reeds, and the parkway runs along its southern and eastern edges. The parkway is mostly one-way, with one to three lanes. The Muddy River runs through the Fens, with two footbridges on opposite sides of the . Non-native Phragmites reeds grow in the Fens, and the formal sits within it.
stands where Park Drive meets Brookline Avenue, at the point where the Riverway meets the Back Bay Fens. It is a limestone and brick Art Deco building. Its 200-foot tower is one of the tallest in the vicinity.
, the commuter rail stop, is near the ballpark. Green Line trains stop at Kenmore and at Fenway.
Shot in Fenway
The Town shot its ballpark heist at Fenway Park, including the shoot-out at Gate D in the concourse beneath the seats. Fever Pitch filmed on the field at home plate straight after a live game, and Ted used the park's corridors and passageways for its climactic chase.
Fever Pitch, 2005
The playing field at Fenway Park
A run across the field to home plate was filmed straight after a live game, and the fans stayed to take part. Filming also covered ten live games and overnight shoots, which the club's vice president of marketing called the most logistically difficult filming he had done. Street View
Park Slope's east-west side streets are lined with brownstones and apartment buildings, and numerous rowhouses went up in its eastern section in the 1880s. Fenway's brownstone side streets carry the same townhouses and brick walk-ups, built between 1880 and 1930. Frame a tight brownstone block and keep the ballpark out of the picture, since a wide shot gives Boston away through the Green Monster and the Citgo sign. Try searching brownstone side streets now.
University Circle is a museum and college district, with the Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance Hall and Case Western Reserve University around one circle. Fenway's Museum of Fine Arts and its colleges give it a similar mix. Its museum and concert hall date from the 1910s and 1930s. The HealthLine bus rapid transit on Euclid Avenue gives Cleveland away in a wide shot, so frame tight on the institutional fronts. Try searching museum and college district now.
