Two story brick storefronts carry carved Polish folk trim along Fleet Avenue, and Judas and the Black Messiah used a Broadway Avenue building as Chicago.
What Slavic Village looks like
Two story brick buildings with shops below and flats or offices above line , the commercial strip that runs past East 71st Street. Many storefronts keep their original ground floor openings behind newer awnings and painted signs.
Several blocks of Fleet Avenue's fronts carry painted wood trim and carved gable boards in a Polish highlander folk style, laid over red brick Queen Anne walls underneath. The trim dates from a 1977 remodel. A street mural covers part of a storefront wall beside Vie's Floral, farther toward Karlin.
Off Fleet Avenue, the side streets hold small brick and frame two flats behind chain link fences and low iron gates. rises at East 65th Street and Forman Avenue, its twin brick spires rising 122 feet over the surrounding rooflines.
Broadway Avenue, near East 55th Street, runs another stretch of brick storefronts west of Fleet. Two and three story buildings there carry carved stone cornices, corner turrets and arched window heads, several still fronted with ground floor storefronts and hanging signs. A lit Slavic Village sign stands over the Fleet Avenue approach near the I-77 exit, and young street trees now line several blocks under an expanding tree canopy.
Shot in Slavic Village
For Judas and the Black Messiah, the production turned the into the Black Panther Party's Chicago headquarters. Cleveland crews filmed near Broadway Avenue and East 55th Street in 2021, in the same stretch of storefronts shown on this page.
Judas and the Black Messiah, 2021
Zverina Building
Played Black Panther Party headquarters, Chicago, Illinois, 1968 to 1969
The Zverina Building on Broadway Avenue served as the Black Panther Party's Chicago headquarters. The production filmed near Broadway Avenue and East 55th Street for months in 2021, hiring hundreds of local extras. Street View
Brady Street's two story cream and red brick buildings carry storefronts below flats above, with Italianate hood moulds over the windows on blocks built from the 1870s through the 1910s. St. Hedwig's steeple rises over the strip, the same role St. Stanislaus plays over Fleet Avenue. Brady Street mixes in German Renaissance Revival fronts and taller buildings near the church, so tighter frames on the plainer two story blocks hold the match best. Try searching brick storefronts with flats above now.
Joseph Campau Street in Hamtramck, Michigan
Joseph Campau Street's two story brick buildings carry a ground floor storefront under apartments above, most of them opened in the 1920s. The block scale and the storefront proportions read close to Fleet Avenue's own run of shops. Hamtramck's storefronts keep a more uniform cornice line and newer brick than Fleet Avenue's older stock, which shows in a wide establishing shot. Try searching two story brick storefronts now.
32nd Place and Bridgeport's other side streets hold frame and brick two flats with small backyards, built for the same wave of Polish and Lithuanian millworkers as Slavic Village. Two Polish Cathedral style churches rise over the neighborhood, the same role St. Stanislaus plays over Fleet Avenue. Bridgeport leans more on frame construction than Slavic Village's brick, so a frame close on the two flats along 32nd Place holds the match better than a wide block shot. Try searching frame and brick two flats now.
