Brick and brownstone rowhouses around a landscaped Victorian square, redressed as Millennium Park for AMC's Walking Dead spinoff, The Ones Who Live.
What Hamilton Park looks like
A landscaped square sits at the center of the neighborhood, with a bandstand and a fountain among the trees. Brick and brownstone rowhouses line the streets around it on a flat grid, part of a 42-acre district on the National and New Jersey Registers of Historic Places. runs along the park's west side and along the east, both fronted by matching facades. The main crossing at the square is West Hamilton Place and 8th Street.
The rowhouses date from 1865 through the turn of the century, brick rows standing beside Victorian vernacular townhouses of the same period. At , one block from the park, a brick row house from 1865 rises four storeys. Brownstone steps climb to a full width porch, with ironwork along the stairs and rail. and Jersey Avenue keep this run unbroken for blocks, one design repeating past the next doorway. Toward the edges of the district the rows give way to wood-frame houses and smaller turn-of-the-century apartment buildings.
The park itself was landscaped in 1851 and renovated again in 2010. Basketball and tennis courts sit along one side of the square today, screened by the same trees that ring the rest of it.
Shot in Hamilton Park
AMC's Walking Dead spinoff The Ones Who Live redressed the park itself as the fictional Millennium Park for several days in March 2023. Temporary signage went up around the square while Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira, reprising Rick and Michonne, filmed inside it.
The Walking Dead spinoff, The Ones Who Live, 2024
Played Hamilton Park, the fictional Millennium Park, present day
Crews redressed the park with signage renaming it Millennium Park and worked inside the square over several days. Andrew Lincoln and Danai Gurira filmed scenes there as Rick and Michonne.
Union Park and Rutland Square are bowfront rowhouses ringing an iron-fenced garden square, laid out in the 1850s and 1860s, the same civic idea as Hamilton Park on a larger scale. The brick and brownstone fronts and the iron stair railings match closely enough for a light dressing pass. Boston's bowfronts curve out from the facade where Hamilton Park's fronts are flat. The wider elliptical park looks different from above, so tighter street level frames hold the match best. Try searching iron-fenced garden square now.
Cobble Hill in Brooklyn, New York
The brick and brownstone rowhouses here date from the 1840s to the 1880s, the same stoop and ironwork vocabulary as the blocks around Hamilton Park. Streets like Warren and Kane keep the scale unbroken for a full block. Cobble Hill's stoops run taller and its blocks are narrower, so a wide shot needs care to avoid modern storefronts at the corners. Try searching brick and brownstone rowhouses now.
The brownstone rows here mostly went up between the 1880s and 1900s, a little later than Hamilton Park but at a similar four and five storey scale. Blocks like Carroll Street and Garfield Place hold long unbroken runs of stoops. Park Slope's stoops and cornices are heavier and the blocks look like a bigger, wealthier street unless the frame stays tight. Try searching brownstone rows now.
