The Müuse Atlas / United States

New York

84 areas on the atlas. Buffalo, Cohoes, Greenport, New York City, Rochester and Syracuse.

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Cities

Buffalo4 areas

Cohoes1 area

GreenportFilming in Greenport, New York. Clapboard storefronts line Main Street down to a harbor with docks, a ferry slip and a brick railroad depot.

New York City75 areas

Rochester1 area

Syracuse2 areas

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AllentownFilming in Allentown, Buffalo. Wood frame and brick Victorian houses on narrow lots, and the colonnaded corner Nightmare Alley used as a 1940s bus station.

Armory SquareFilming in Armory Square, Syracuse. Red brick warehouse and commercial blocks from the 1870s to the 1940s, arched windows and brick sidewalks around a former armory turned science museum.

Battery Park CityFilming in Battery Park City, New York City. Brick apartment towers face a paved esplanade on landfill along the Hudson, with lawns, a marina and open harbor water.

Bay RidgeFilming in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The numbered streets run downhill to the Narrows. The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge crosses the water at the south end of the neighborhood.

BaysideFilming in Bayside, New York City. Detached houses with driveways and hedged lawns run down to Little Neck Bay, a marina and the Throgs Neck 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.

BelmontFilming in Belmont, the Bronx. The Italian food trade on Arthur Avenue is still open for business, with an enclosed retail market in the middle of the strip.

BensonhurstFilming in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Low brick shopfronts sit beneath the elevated West End line on 86th Street, with rows of attached houses close by.

Brighton BeachFilming in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. An elevated railway runs above Brighton Beach Avenue and the shops are underneath. The boardwalk is one block south.

BronxvilleFilming in Bronxville, Westchester County. Stone and half-timbered fronts line the business blocks around a commuter rail station, with a civic square of brick and stone buildings.

Brooklyn HeightsFilming in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn. Federal and Greek Revival rowhouses from the early 1800s line the bluff above the harbor, and Moonstruck used the corner at Cranberry and Willow Streets.

Brooklyn Navy YardFilming in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York City. A walled shipyard on the East River holds brick machine shops and stone dry docks with old cranes.

BushwickFilming in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Low brick warehouses with roll down shutters and truck bays sit under two elevated train lines, with the Manhattan skyline visible down some blocks.

Carroll GardensFilming in Carroll Gardens, New York City. Brownstone rows sit behind unusually deep front gardens, with storefronts along Court and Smith Streets.

ChelseaFilming in Chelsea, Manhattan. Wide brick warehouse blocks run under the High Line toward the river, with Cushman Row's Greek Revival houses a few streets east.

ChinatownFilming in Chinatown, Manhattan. Most of the buildings stop at five or six storeys and the streets between them are narrow.

City IslandFilming on City Island in the Bronx. One main street runs the length of a small island of boat yards and seafood restaurants, reached by a single bridge.

College PointFilming in College Point, New York City. Flat industrial streets of car lots and warehouses meet the shoreline, and the Poppenhusen Institute's ballroom stood in for a Women's Temperance League hall in Boardwalk Empire.

ConcourseFilming in Concourse, New York City. The Grand Concourse runs wide past Art Deco apartment houses to the limestone courthouse at 161st Street.

Coney IslandFilming in Coney Island, Brooklyn. A boardwalk of amusement rides, arcades and food stands, with the beach emptying out by October.

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 1880s and 1890s.

Downtown BrooklynFilming in Downtown Brooklyn, New York City. Borough Hall's colonnade and a pedestrian shopping mall sit under new glass residential towers.

Downtown BuffaloFilming in Downtown Buffalo, Buffalo. Neoclassical and Art Deco office towers of the 1920s rise around Lafayette Square, with light rail on Main Street.

DUMBOFilming in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Red brick warehouses line Belgian block streets that run straight to the Manhattan Bridge.

Dyker HeightsFilming in Dyker Heights, New York City. Large houses with columns, iron balconies and driveways climb a hillside above the Belt Parkway, with the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge towers on the skyline.

East HarlemFilming in East Harlem, New York City. Brick tenements and NYCHA towers stand over Third Avenue, with a market building still working under the Park Avenue tracks.

East VillageFilming in the East Village, Manhattan. Numbered streets of brick tenements surround Tompkins Square Park, and The Godfather Part II dressed one block as 1917 Little Italy.

ElmhurstFilming in Elmhurst, New York City. Queens Boulevard runs wide and multi-lane past an enclosed mall and a repurposed 1920s lodge building.

Far RockawayFilming in Far Rockaway, New York City. One and two storey bungalows from the 1920s stand in the shadow of brick public housing towers, a few blocks from the boardwalk.

Financial DistrictFilming in the Financial District, Manhattan. Narrow one lane streets in shadow between some of the tallest buildings in the city. Wall Street and Broad Street have not taken cars since 2001.

FlatbushFilming in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Flatbush Avenue runs for miles past small shops and striped awnings, with freestanding Victorian houses on the side streets.

FlushingFilming in Flushing, Queens. Main Street at Roosevelt Avenue is the third busiest crossing in New York. The signs above the shops are in Chinese and Korean.

Forest HillsFilming in Forest Hills, Queens. Tudor houses on curving lanes surround a brick paved station square, with a tennis stadium, a mile of storefronts and apartment towers close by.

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.

Garden CityFilming in Garden City, New York. Wide avenues carry Victorian houses and Gothic institutional buildings around a brick Main Street and a 1907 rail stop.

GowanusFilming in Gowanus, Brooklyn. The canal is 1.8 miles long and the subway crosses it 87 feet up.

Gramercy ParkFilming in Gramercy Park, New York City. A locked private square behind a cast iron fence, ringed by brick and brownstone houses from the 1840s onward.

Great KillsFilming in Great Kills, New York City. A sheltered harbor behind a sand spit holds a marina next to quiet blocks of postwar ranch houses.

Hamilton HeightsFilming in Hamilton Heights, New York City. Limestone and brownstone rowhouse blocks climb the hill to City College's Gothic campus.

HarlemFilming in Harlem, Manhattan. Brick and brownstone rowhouses line Strivers' Row and Astor Row, and the Apollo Theater's marquee marks 125th Street.

Harmony MillsFilming in Harmony Mills, Cohoes. Mansard roofed brick mill towers rise over a canal and waterfall, and HBO's The Gilded Age filmed the complex as a Pittsburgh steel mill.

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.

High FallsFilming in High Falls, Rochester. A 96 foot waterfall drops through a stone gorge lined with nineteenth century mill buildings and a green iron footbridge.

Hunts PointFilming in Hunts Point, the Bronx. Wholesale produce, meat and fish markets run through the night on a peninsula between two rivers.

InwoodFilming in Inwood, Manhattan. The last natural forest and salt marsh on the island are in Inwood Hill Park. The 1 train runs on steel above Tenth Avenue.

Jackson HeightsFilming in Jackson Heights, Queens. The 7 train runs above Roosevelt Avenue and the garden apartment blocks begin behind the shops.

JamaicaFilming in Jamaica, Queens. A discount store strip runs along Jamaica Avenue, with an AirTrain guideway over the transit hub and a colonnaded 1930s courthouse a few blocks off it.

Lincoln CenterFilming in Lincoln Center, New York City. A white travertine opera house and glass-fronted halls face a wide paved plaza with a round fountain at its center.

Long BeachFilming in Long Beach, New York. A paved ocean boardwalk runs past high rise towers, with low Mediterranean stucco blocks in the West End.

Long Island CityFilming in Long Island City, Queens. The Pepsi-Cola sign stands in Gantry Plaza State Park. The Silvercup sign is still on the roof of the old bakery.

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.

MaspethFilming in Maspeth, New York City. A freight line crosses at street level past graffiti covered warehouses, near small frame houses and a working creek.

Meatpacking DistrictFilming in the Meatpacking District, New York City. Belgian block streets and low brick market buildings run under metal loading canopies, one block from the Hudson River and the High Line.

Morningside HeightsFilming in Morningside Heights, New York City. Limestone university quadrangles and prewar apartment blocks sit on a ridge, with an unfinished Gothic cathedral and Riverside Church a few blocks apart.

Mott HavenFilming in Mott Haven, the Bronx. Brownstone rows from the 1880s and 1890s stand a few streets from truck yards along the Harlem River.

Niagara Falls State ParkFilming in Niagara Falls State Park, Niagara Falls. Paved walks run along a wooded gorge rim above white river water, past a 1961 observation tower.

Old First WardFilming in Old First Ward, Buffalo. Concrete grain elevators tower over small worker cottages along the Buffalo River.

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.

Port MorrisFilming in Port Morris, New York City. Brick warehouses and rail sidings run down to the Bronx Kill, with Randalls Island and the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge across the water.

Port RichmondFilming in Port Richmond, New York City. A worn shopping avenue of brick storefronts runs to the Kill van Kull, past the pizzeria The King of Staten Island used for a fight scene.

23 more, listed on the pages above.