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.
What Port Richmond looks like
Port Richmond Avenue runs south from the water lined with two storey storefronts, some behind aluminum awnings and others with older painted signs still hanging over newer businesses. The Reformed Church, a brick Greek Revival building from the 1840s with a portico of paired Doric columns, stands partway down the avenue. A block over on Bennett Street, the branch library sits behind a columned portico in red brick and white stucco, built as a Carnegie library in 1905. The near Anderson Avenue was built in 1924 as a vaudeville house and is now a tile and home improvement showroom.
Heberton Avenue holds 121 Heberton, a two and a half storey wood frame house built around 1860 and one of the few Rustic style villas left on Staten Island. Large wood frame Victorian houses from the 1840s and 1850s continue along Richmond Terrace toward the water.
sits at the far end of Richmond Terrace, with a skate park and a stone fieldhouse above the Kill van Kull. The Bayonne Bridge rises over the water just beyond it, a steel arch built in 1931 that carries traffic between Staten Island and New Jersey. East of the avenue, a disused stands at Church Street, its brick walls and round arched windows covered in graffiti.
Shot in Port Richmond
The King of Staten Island used Denino's Pizzeria & Tavern on Port Richmond Avenue for the scene where Scott fights a coworker over tips. The pizzeria has stood on the same corner since 1937.
The King of Staten Island, 2020
Scott and a coworker fight over the tip jar after their shift at the pizzeria. The scene was shot at the real Denino's, a working class tavern that has served pizza from the same corner since 1937. Street View
What Port Richmond can double for
Broadway in Bayonne, New Jersey
Broadway in Bayonne sits directly across the Kill van Kull with the same worn two storey brick storefronts under old signage, built up around the same working waterfront. Some blocks of Broadway have taller postwar buildings and newer signage, so a tighter frame on the older storefront strip holds the period better. Try searching worn brick storefronts now.
Elizabethport in Elizabeth, New Jersey
Elizabethport's old commercial streets carry the same low brick storefronts and wood frame houses built up around a working port, with small taverns and repair shops. Wider frames pick up newer warehouses and tank farms nearby, so a street level shot on the older blocks works best. Try searching brick storefronts wood frame houses now.
Port Morris has a similar edge of brick industrial buildings and an elevated rail relic beside the water, though its blocks run more to warehouses than to a shopping street. The warehouse scale is larger than Port Richmond's storefront strip, so tighter street level framing keeps the comparison honest. Try searching elevated rail relic beside water now.
