It was a real blast from the past. I was at Connie’s wedding at the house on Staten Island and I actually appear for a few brief seconds in the film. The revolving doors, I’d guess, are also at the St Regis. Two items I’d like to add. Good times man. Aldo Trapani gained this position in … Hence the ST. R on the window outside the shop. Other than a few hints about the neighborhood, I couldn’t find any information anywhere on the address, and I almost gave up looking. genre. Then, Kay notices a headline on the newsstand announcing the Corleone shooting: …to a telephone booth, where Michael calls home. I guess you can blame OSHA, the ADA, unreal costs, loss of fabrication choices, loss of interest in quality, and decades upon decades of lawsuits for the views we see every day. Our point of view here is toward toward the house…. You could still see the art deco etched glass even then that is visible in the scene in the film. The New York City stomping grounds of the notorious Corleone family have entered film and pop-culture immortality, becoming a classic travel destination for millions across the world. The 120 Longfellow Ave. residence, which served as the home of Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) in the 1972 film “The Godfather,” is now for sale. 3 Stunning Filming Locations of The Godfather Movie in Sicily 1. Hotel St. George became a homeless shelter for a while, I believe. The empty diner made me think of the cover for Hall & Oates album “Abandoned Luncheonette”. As a huge fan of “The Godfather,” I really appreciate the time you took and the effort you made to put this together. The Godfather was released into theaters on March 14th, 1972. Hopefully the front gate, or something is recognizable. My grandfather hired day laborers for the New York Central Railroad out of a Little Italy location just around the time young Vito Corleone was establishng himself in the neighborhood. Thank you very much. The scene where Michael meets Kay in Front of her school was filmed outside of the Ross Elementary School in Ross, CA (Marin County). Cheers! So thanks for the detail Mr. Coppola.. Ideal for not bothering any residents. Nobody who has ever used the GW Bridge would mistake that scene to imply that Sollozzo’s car was already on the bridge. Back in Little Italy, Don Corleone steps out of the Genco offices and crosses the street toward 135-137 Mott Street. The Corleone House Scenes. Thanks….again! The elevated walkway in the background was part of the old wire factory that ran parallel to the FDR. The Godfather: Part II (1974) The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York and follows Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) in the 1950s as he attempts to … It can be found at the intersection of Clark and Henry streets off the A stop at High Street; or the 2,3 stop at Clark Street. So, I Google map searched that stretch. After his shave, Willie Cicci then goes up the stairs and locks the “hit” in the revolving door and shoots him. There’s a Yahoo group dedicated to the St. George Hotel that has a whole section about the Godfather scene. I saw a piece a few years ago about the guy who sold the house. Carrying on, Tom Hagen is then abducted by Sollozzo as he exits Polk’s Hobby Shop at 314 Fifth Avenue. It does make it real for me. Supposedly, the truck’s placement was deliberate, to block the view of something (not specified AFAIK) in the background that wouldn’t have fit the time frame. Can’t be sure, but it sure looks like it.they even sold Christmas trees jyst like that at xmas. So, I started searching in Catania. boy does this back memories,firsr of all I lived on staten island while there filmed there,carlo was a friend of family.also I was driving a bus on ave b while they filmed there.when they had the shooting with the guy running out on ave b I had to wait with my bus on ave b and 4th till they finished.yes they really changed the looks of everything there.there will never be any pictures like that again.back in the 50s we use to go to the st George hotel on a certain night when was strickly men only[no bathing suits].I believe there are plenty of people that remember that.i miss there ave b bus line that when under around 1980,i had to retire due to sickness and moved to st pete fl. 2) The silver diner looks like the one (not in use?) Most impressive was Vito’s study, which had been fabricated in the studio, rather than being in the actual house. I have no proof that this is the location. I’m from queens, and in the 70’s some big films were shot around the middle village area. No clue where this building is – anyone recognize it? That is, the hospital bed scene in the hospital room. Loved your website. btw a close friend was a child living on E116th and Pleasant ave when the scenes were shot up there. New York film locations from the movie The Godfather: Part II starring Ashton Kutcher. When you enter the hotel and go down the stairs (it’s below street level) to the barber shop. GRACE: In the 1840s, Irish immigrants began arriving in New York by the thousands. I never dreamed it was the location of one of my favorite scenes in the movie! Perhaps they filmed in two different locations, but I’ll go to the St Regis tomorrow to investigate! I found the actual gravestone used in the film many years ago at Fasolino monuments nearby the Cemetery. An NYU film student, Mark Kitchell ,was granted full access to the shooting on E. 6th Street by Coppola, who even sat for a brief interview. Built in 1892, the sprawling Mietz & Weiss Oil Engine Building has a wonderful ever-so-slight curve that follows the path of Mott Street: While the Renaissance Revival building is overall in good shape, some changes have been made over the years, including the removal of fire escapes…. Of course the really puzzling thing about that scene is the magically self-healing windshield on Sonny’s car. I’m certain its that side door to the Wellington, The Godfather house on Staten Island is on sale. Anyway. They had their wedding reception down the block at the Towers Hotel (BTW, they are both buried in Calvary Cemetery 1 near the “Corleone family” – I know the space well). I’ve never spotted the logo myself, but enough people have reported it that I presume it’s not just an urban legend. It was a ‘gay bar’ for a time, but I can’t recall when. Regarding Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx, I used to work right across the street from the new hospital location while it was being built. Project, How to Visit NYC’s Abandoned Old City Hall Subway Station, Audrey Hepburn Graffiti in Little Italy, New York City, Spread LOVE It’s the Brooklyn Way Graffiti, Godfather Cemetery Scene Location & video, Church from the Godfather baptism Scene video, Explore New York’s Amazing Beauty from Above, A Taste of New York | A video by Peter Jablonowski, HUF choose New York streets for filming their Latest Video, New York Rising | Helicopter Flights Above Manhattan Video, 7 Tips For Visiting The Statue of Liberty. 127 Comments. i LOVE when you do these!!! I remember very well the location and the fake walls made of plywood covered in stone veneer. The Godfather is a 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo, based on Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel of the same name.The film stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard Conte, and Diane Keaton.It is the first installment in The Godfather … Funny, this is the 3rd reference to the Godfather I’ve heard in 2 days, and second one related to locations. In two of the deleted scenes on the Blu-Ray it’s also made pretty clear that Woltz is a pedophile. By the way, it was a strip club as well as a bar. The information contained in this website is for general information purposes only. Apparently they used to call the room where they filmed that scene the Luca Brasi Room. I know where the barber shop is… I worked right across the street. This is why it’s so refreshing to visit foreign countries where people still have choices. Tom Haden’s Diner is a tough one but physically it matches up perfectly inside and out with what is now called Diner in Williamsburg, back then there was an empty lot next to it that did indeed sell Christmas trees. The interior of Genco Oil was reportedly built on the fourth floor of a warehouse nearby to 128 Mott Street (but not actually in the Mietz building). …and most egregiously, the complete gutting of the ground floor facade. It was quite spectacular. I am curious if any NY’ers could look closer and see what you think. Yes, I heard from a friend who works there that a number of the baptism hit scenes were filmed in the St. Regis, including Moe Greene’s—which is supposed to be in Vegas! The Godfather Part 3 location: Vincent and Mary Corleone drink at Mulberry Street Bar, Mulberry Street, Little Italy, New York ‘Palazzo Azzurro’, site of the ’copter attack on the mob convention was Trump Castle Casino Resort, now the Golden Nugget Atlantic City , 1 Castle Boulevard , Atlantic City , New Jersey (though the … This is the best review of Godfather locations that I’ve ever seen. The toll booth was supposed to be the old tolls at the Loop Parkway that used to exist to enter the Meadowbrook. Are the chained doors across from the turnstiles/mta booth? I have a couple of contacts, that I got from my Hollywood producer contacts, who are in Rome, and apparently were location scouts for the film. The exterior scenes were filmed at the Church of St. Joachim and St. Anne in the Pleasant Plains section of Staten Island. By the time The Godfather was filmed, all US churches would have made the change in the orientation of the altar, so the way it is set for the film was probably a special staging to reflect the way it would have looked in the 1940s. The building was torn down to make way for the 51-story Olympic Tower currently at the site at mids 70’s. When i was in 10th grade at evander hs on gun hill rd in the bronx in 1971 i went over after school and saw filming of god father Click below to go to the next page! I sat with the owner and remember him bragging to me about the bar used in the Godfather. Two nearby villages stood in for it. The one on 14th Street only opened about 10 years ago. The first Godfather film is a Francis Ford Coppola classic, beloved by millions, and although the majority of the story takes place in New York there is an important Sicilian component. The barbershop was in the St. Regis Hotel downstairs from the lobby. In the movie he’s a stubborn executive but not otherwise a bad person, while in the novel it’s made very clear that he’s a pedophile. I’ve done a NYC: Then & Now series for the past 5 years: http://www.dezsantana.com/then_now, A little off the original godfather topic, Michael's reply of "New York City" at the Senate hearing is deleted. The Corleone Family house. It’s an area with a lot of cemetery’s. That afternoon I was taken to the Manhattan studio where interiors were shot. I stayed at the Wellington in January and have just watched the Godfather again. Note St. Patrick’s and Saks a block further in both pictures. More recent changes have included making baptism part of a regular Sunday service, rather than having it be a private ceremony in a separate chapel. I couldn’t get an answer.” Dad replies, “Have you tried chicken?”. The Godfather opens at the wedding of Don Corleone’s only daughter Connie. I watched the Godfather marathon on AE this weekend. The scenes for Vito Corleone´s funeral were all filmed on the Calvary Cemetery. The baptismal font was probably still separate in the 1970s, but that tradition is no longer prevalent. . The Best & Co. store in the Michael and Kay shopping scene had closed around a year prior to the filming, though the building was (obviously) still standing. The films, through a series of flashbacks, span 1901-1979 and travel all over the world from New York to Las Vegas, Miami and Cuba to Rome and Sicily. See my comment below. But if they’re still there today, look directly to your left as you enter through the subway station turnstiles — you may still glimpse the doors. I think the diner is this liberty travel The place was pretty run down post-filming and by 1978 had become a truly seedy strip club. THANK YOU! Photographers who got something less than cooperation from the movie-makers. Bar Vitelli was the filming location of several scenes from the first Godfather movie by Francis Ford Coppola. New York City is the most populous city in the United States and located in the state of New York. Follow the footsteps of The Godfather with our guide New York of 1000 cult movies, series, musics, comics and novels locations! As soon as I saw the assassination in the revolving door I was certain it was the Wellington. In addition a couple of other scenes where shot there. Just called my friend who was doing his medical residency at New York Eye & Ear Infirmary on 14th St back in the early 1970s. The Edison Hotel did indeed have those exact fish etched on the thick glass door connecting the elevator bay area of the lobby to the bar. Brings back memories I will always cherish. Brasi is then murdered by Sollozzo in an upscale restaurant…but where was this shot? The interior hospital scenes were shot at the Eye and Ear Hospital on 13th Street and 2nd Ave. That location is also comparable in appearance as it was in March, 1971 when they shot the scene. The closest you can get now is if you go to the entrance of the 2/3 train and turn around, you’ll see a set of doors that was the entrance, now chained shut. What’s behind them … I’ve always wondered. That old aluminum diner looks like one that was on woodhaven Blvd, right before metropolitan ave. Outstanding work for your Godfather photos and historical research. More sightings are reported. The billboard was strategically placed to hide the modern high rise (evidently the one we see in your photo). The British were civil servants and military, the Americans were small retailers. That looks like Jersey city where Sysco foods is currently. ABBIE: In reality, the underbelly of organized crime in New York City began not with Italian mafias, but with Irish mobs. In fact, this pivotal scene was actually filmed in the Hotel St. George in Brooklyn. Please keep in touch, I do this for my guided tours on NY as well and it’s great to meet a fellow “SCOUT”!!! This day they were shooting additional scenes of family and friends at a long guest table in the yard. The storefront is for Lenny’s (can’t make out the surname), offering Printers Motor Repair & Maintenance.” This building is on Thompson Street betwwen Bleecker Street and Wst 3rd Street in Greenwich Village. I also figure, from looking closely at the second scene with the house, that it must face southward. From stores to actually putting a fake feast,some of the The results on both sides the operands are single virile Years back when I was a scout in troop 236 we would grab the Schenck bus on Hillside Ave. in to 179th St, and take the subway to the Brooklyn Borough Hall stop, walk a few blocks and go swimming at the hotel pool. Thanks for all of your fantastic work putting this together. that is the logo on the glass door. I lived there in 2005. It was later turned into condos, and the building absolutely still stands. Outside the church of Saint Anthony of Padua located at 155 Sullivan Street you can see a young Vito (Godfather II) conspiring against mobster Don Fanucci. The Don of New York is a position that can only be achieved when one family becomes powerful enough to unite all of the Five Families under one banner. John Brandt is right on-point; I remember passing the hotel often as a child when my father, sister, and I were out and about in the neighborhood. He said they definitely filmed Brando’s hospital scene there and also the Genco deathbed scene which can only be seen in the trilogy film version. When they kill Paulie, looks like they are in the middle of a country field, but you can see the Statue of Liberty in the background. Apparently they used to call the room where they filmed that scene the Luca Brasi Room. and Bronx, Brooklyn, Garden City, New York City, Pleasant Plains, Queens and Staten Island, NY. Calvary Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery located in Woodside in the New York City borough of Queens. Ideal for not bothering any residents. The exterior scenes were filmed at the Church of St. Joachim and St. Anne in the Pleasant Plains section of Staten Island. As part of this visit, I was taken to the Godfather house site on Staten Island. San Francisco from May, gaffer of faculty to this application will not be But I can’t help it, everytime I see those sequences from Godfather II, Robert DInero walikng the steets, deiivering groceries from his job, during San Genero.. That somewhere, during that time there really was a young Frank Speno walikng those same streets. The Britons were puzzled by the Americans golfing down the chopped liver, talking loudly in Yiddish, being obsessed with keeping their struggling businesses afloat, and greatly annoyed that the Yankees had done badly in the World Series and that the Giants and Dodgers were leaving town…whoever they were. The Godfather (1972) Movies, TV, Celebs, and more... Oscars Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Golden Globes Emmys Black History Month STARmeter Awards San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Int'l Film Festival Awards Central Festival Central All Events What still remains? A part of it burned down in 1995 in what was the biggest fire ever in NYC until 9/11. 7th & 8th. Here’s the website: http://www.studenthousing.org/live/st-george-clark, the diner is in queens at rust st and maspeth ave. We then join Michael Corleone and his girlfriend Kay Adams as they Christmas shop at the Best & Co. Department Store on Fifth Avenue at 51st Street. Wonderful! It was finishing up when I quit in early ’72. The bar was closed in the early ’90s after a cop shot someone in there. The logo on the glass door is the that of the St Regis. New York County Courthouse, probably best known from Law and Order, was the location for one of the most famous montages in The Godfather. Especially loved your detective work finding the toll booth location. That old aluminum diner looks like one that was on woodhaven Blvd, right before metropolitan ave. (Church from the Godfather baptism Scene video). She also said she didn’t know who the owner was, but that it wasn’t accessible to the public. What happened to all the stone walls and the entrance gate? Some maintain that these professional paranormal eliminators…. The closest you can get now is if you go to the entrance of the 2/3 train and turn around, you’ll see a set of doors that was the entrance, now chained shut. They either sold or donated it to a school in Long Island City. I really enjoy all the posts on this site, but since I live in LA, I’d also like the link to Scouting LA. The stone wall at the NY Godfather house was a prop made of stucco and cardboard. The Sicily scenes couldn’t be filmed in the town of Corleone, as it was too modern-looking. This was filmed in what was once the heart of Little Italy at 128 Mott Street, known as The Mietz Building. The entire experience now seems like a dream, thanks for the memories! The new cut completely deletes Michael being honored with a papal order in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York and instead goes right to the party celebration, mimicking the openings of Godfather I and II. Scriptwise that is….From time to time young Frank,in realtime and records may indicate or at least the Puzzo family lore leads me to believe, he actually would hire Mario Puzzo’s father to go out on the line and work with hundreds of others breaking the ballast along the rail line to prevent flooding on or aliong it. How cool would it be if you could get some interior shots. Then watching the movie again later this year convinced myself that was why it was familiar. Where else could anybody get that kind of information in such a perfect way of writing? My wife and I saw it in a lobby near some elevators there, but I haven’t visited there in years. Identical. It is world renowned for its landmarks such as the Imperial State Building, Wall Street, the Ambrosini Tower, the Statue of Liberty and the Brooklyn Bridge.. New York is made up of five boroughs; Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, The … “ichael takes off for Sicily (locations soon to be covered by sister site Scouting Italy) as a gang war breaks out in New York. 7. In 1977, a special version for television titled The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977) was prepared by director Francis Ford Coppola and editor Barry Malkin by re-editing The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather: Part II (1974) in chronological order and adding deleted scenes. the diner looks like the Moondance Diner which was located at 80 sixth ave between grand st and canal. Research (ATC), claimed in a paper published in Nature that it had created ESCs without destroying the embryos, Even the original railings of the Supreme Court Building – which were themselves added after initial construction finished – have been replaced with standard round pipe railings. Yes, the diner is on Rust St in Maspeth, Queens. required to workplace, but the actual world. You can, of course, take the East River Drive or the Hudson River Drive to the Bridge instead of the Triboro Bridge, but that doesn’t fit the way things look in the movie. I grew up in Nassau County and as young teenagers, we walked through that field area in the 80’s to get to Nassau Coliseum for concert ticket sales– we called it the Frozen Tundra in the winter. Just another reminder of what America has become. Can’t be sure, but it sure looks like it. Perhaps the Part 2 NYC locations as a follow up? Now it’s a dorm for the nearby St. Francis College. on Northern Blvd in Long Island City, Queens right by Best Buy, around 50th St. Never forget that the radio playing at the tollbooth is Russ Hodges’ calling Bobby Thomson’s “Shot Heard ‘Round the World.” Listen closely to it…Clint Hartung is down at third when the toll booth clerk closes the window. He stops to buy fruit from the vendor at 137 Mott Street (note the Jake “Raging Bull” La Motta poster in the window): Just then, two assassins spring out and begin shooting, gunning down Corleone in front of the entrance to Genco at 128 Mott: Later that night, we find Michael and Kay coming out of a show at Radio City Music Hall: They exit the side entrance on West 50th Street…. And is that is right, then the scenes of Clemenza climbing the stairs and shooting Stracci look like they were also filmed in the St Regis. Note the big yellow Rheingold Beer truck in the background of the scene where Sonny attacks Carlo. Not to press a point, but about the George Washington Bridge scene…. I ate there many times as a kid. Because of the complexity, we will cover two of the scenes separately: Connie´s wedding and Vito … as this would seem to remove the principal objection to stem-cell research. I remember seeing it in the movie when it first came out. https://www.google.com/maps/preview/place/81+New+Jersey+4,+River+Edge,+NJ+07661/@40.9114951,-74.0398276,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x89c2fa7a99676107:0xe6910cd8404dbd8a. Wonderful work though, found this fascinating. Nearby was a wooden tollbooth that, unknown to me, would be where Sonny later meets his death. I noticed so many little things. Uneasy with the possible introduction of drugs into his business world, Don Corleone sends Luca Brasi to meet with Sollozzo and pledge his loyalty in order to spy on him. A bunch of different schools have students living there, including Pratt and the Fashion Institute of Technology. The barber shop scene, Michael’s dinner with Kay, Clemenza shooting into the elevator, Willy Cici shooting the boss through the revolving door were all filmed at the St. Regis Hotel on E55th St. and 5th Ave. being from New York presently living out of state they make me soooo homesick but also are so inspiring! Wikipedia had this to say. Thanks for the pictures of what it looks like today. Regarding the changes in the “backdrop” to the altar in the baptism scene: The Second Vatican Council in the early 1960s made many changes in the way Catholic churches are arranged, and in particular in having the priest face the congregation during the mass, rather than facing the altar with his back to them as was done previously. “They head over the GW Bridge, spooking Michael who wasn’t expecting a trip to New Jersey. I use the Godfather trilogy extensively. I believe it is now a mall of some kind. the bar in the Saint George Hotel was a strip club in the early 1980’s. Back in America, while leaving from a tryst with his goomah, Sonny is given the news that his brother-in-law Carlo is still beating his sister Connie. I really love your Scoutingny site, Thanks so much for all the work you’ve put into this. on the look for such information. These guys wedged a wooden box it seems to make it spray; in the late 60s/early 70s an adult from the neighborhood would go down to the fire station and get a special sprinkler cap for the “Johnny pump,” resulting in exactly what is seen in the movie. Contact me asap! Never realized that the Sopranos was basically David Chase’s view of New Jersey and the modern, upper middle class family meets the Godfather. The 20 Best Scenes in The Godfather Trilogy. Your untiring efforts made to investigate the facts behind each scene are certainly appreciated, especially those associated with Sonny’s demise at the tolls booths. Hope the donation makes a difference and you hit $30k soon! Even the stoop where Carlo is hanging out seems recognizably New York, but after the modern remodeling it could be anywhere. I can’t believe how much the Sopranos copied from the Godfather. That set the tone for a marriage that lasted 37 years…Dad summed it up best with a cartoon he drew (he was a brilliant cartoonist) in which he comes home, and Mom says, “As I was cooking the hamburgers, I pondered the meaning of life. The time and effort you put into this is amazing. The house today is pretty much the same as it appears in the film, except for one detail….
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