🗽 Films on the Map · City guide
From the wedding on Staten Island to the courthouse steps on Foley Square, The Godfather was shot in almost every borough. Here are all 24 filming locations in and around the city, grouped by neighbourhood in an order that is easy to walk, with ready itineraries for half a day, a day and two days.
The map
The numbers are a suggested walking order. Pick an area to zoom in, and tap a pin to see what was filmed there.
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Locations, distances and times are estimates only. Check opening hours, prices, access and safety before you go.
The places
For each place: what was filmed there, what’s there today, an estimate of the visit time, and links to Google Maps and the scene page.
📍 East Village, Manhattan · ≈ 30 min there
A veteran neighbourhood bar at Avenue B and 7th Street, facing Tompkins Square Park. Google Maps lists it as still open, with the horseshoe-shaped bar that gave it its name. It has also appeared in Crocodile Dundee and the Sex and the City movie. You can walk in and order a drink right where they tried to strangle Pentangeli.
📍 East Village, Manhattan · ≈ 30 min there
An ordinary East Village residential block: brick walk-ups with fire escapes and a row of trees, with a big community garden on the corner of Avenue B. For the film the shopfronts were covered, carts and horses brought in, and the whole block went back to 1917. Today it is a quiet, pleasant street to stroll, a few minutes’ walk from Little Italy.
📍 Little Italy and Nolita, Manhattan · ≈ 30 min there
A narrow, lively Nolita street parallel to Mott and Mulberry, with boutiques, cafés and old brick buildings. The sources don’t say which block was used, so the link points to the corner of Prince Street. The real thing, the Feast of San Gennaro, takes over neighbouring Mulberry Street every September, with a procession and food stalls.
📍 Little Italy and Nolita, Manhattan · ≈ 40 min there
New York’s first Catholic cathedral, from 1815, enclosed by a brick wall and a small cemetery. It became a basilica in 2010. It is open for visits and services, with paid guided tours that include the catacombs. Both the baptism in the first film and the ceremony in Part III were filmed here, 18 years apart.
📍 Little Italy, Manhattan · ≈ 30 min there
A veteran Mulberry Street bar, said to have opened in 1908 as Mare Chiaro and, the story goes, Frank Sinatra’s favourite. It has also appeared in Donnie Brasco and The Sopranos. Google Maps lists it as still open, so you can sit at the bar just like Vincent and Mary.
📍 Little Italy and Chinatown, Manhattan · ≈ 30 min there
The Mietz Building at 128 Mott Street played the “Genco” offices; its Art Deco entrance was built for the film. The ground floor has been completely remodelled, but the name “Mietz” is still on the façade. The block is part of Chinatown today, and at number 137, across the street, where the Don was shot, there is still a shop.
📍 Foley Square, Manhattan · ≈ 30 min there
The New York County Supreme Court, a hexagonal building with a Corinthian-columned front facing Foley Square. Its broad steps have appeared in dozens of films and series. It is a working courthouse; you can sit on the steps and take pictures. Chinatown and Little Italy are a few minutes’ walk away.
📍 Financial District, Manhattan · ≈ 1 h there
A Florentine-style stone palazzo at 33 Liberty Street, with one of the world’s largest gold vaults in its basement. According to Scouting NY, this is the building the family heads walk into; the room itself was the Penn Central railroad boardroom above Grand Central, since gutted. Tours of the bank are booked in advance and are usually free.
📍 Brooklyn Heights, New York · ≈ 30 min there
In the 1930s this was New York’s largest hotel, with more than 2,600 rooms. Today the building holds apartments and student housing, with an entrance to the Clark Street subway station at street level. Brooklyn Heights is a lovely neighbourhood, and its Promenade looks straight across at Manhattan.
📍 New York Harbor · ≈ 2 h 30 min there
The immigration station operated from 1892 to 1954, and some 12 million immigrants passed through it. Its main building is now the National Museum of Immigration, reached by ferry from Battery Park in Manhattan or from Liberty State Park, with a stop at the Statue of Liberty. At the museum you can search the arrival records, perhaps for your own family.
📍 Jersey City, New Jersey · ≈ 45 min there
According to New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection, the scene was shot in 1971 on an unmarked road that later became part of Liberty State Park, at a bend closer to Phillip Street than to Freedom Way. The spot lies inside a fenced 210-acre interior, closed to the public since the early 1980s because of contamination and now being restored. The rest of the park is open, with a waterfront walk facing the Statue of Liberty and Manhattan, and ferries to the statue and Ellis Island.
📍 Chelsea, Manhattan · ≈ 30 min there
The West 23rd Street building housed the McBurney YMCA from 1904 to 2002. The Y then moved to 14th Street, and the building became private lofts, seen from outside only. A few steps along the same street is the famous Chelsea Hotel.
📍 Midtown, Manhattan · ≈ 30 min there
Rockefeller Center’s famous hall, opened in 1932 and home of the Rockettes. The scene was shot at the side entrance on West 50th Street. Paid guided tours run all year, and in winter there’s the traditional Christmas show.
📍 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan · ≈ 30 min there
Best & Co. had already closed when the crew arrived and was briefly revived for the scene. In the mid-1970s the building was demolished; Olympic Tower, 51 storeys of dark glass, stands there now, with St Patrick’s Cathedral just across 51st Street.
📍 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan · ≈ 40 min there
New York’s great neo-Gothic cathedral, opened in 1879 on Fifth Avenue opposite Rockefeller Center. Entry is free, with Masses throughout the day. Across 51st Street stands Olympic Tower, where Michael and Kay go Christmas shopping in the first film.
📍 Park Avenue, Manhattan · ≈ 30 min there
Park Avenue’s famous Art Deco hotel, from 1931. It closed in 2017 for a huge renovation, with part of the building turned into apartments, and reopened in 2025 with fewer than 400 rooms instead of more than 1,400. The restored lobby, with its famous gilded clock, is worth a look.
📍 Midtown, Manhattan · ≈ 30 min there
A 1904 luxury hotel at Fifth Avenue and 55th Street, built by John Jacob Astor IV, who died on the Titanic eight years later. According to movie-locations, Michael and Kay also stay here in the first film. Its King Cole Bar claims to be the birthplace of the Bloody Mary, and you don’t need a room to have a drink there.
📍 East Harlem, Manhattan · ≈ 30 min there
A quiet corner of “Italian Harlem”, once one of New York’s largest Italian communities. According to Scouting NY, the stoop Carlo sat on is still there, and so are the street’s cobblestones. A few blocks south, by the church on 115th Street, the Italian Giglio feast is still held every summer.
📍 The Bronx, New York · ≈ 30 min there
3531 White Plains Road, under the elevated tracks in the Bronx. The restaurant is long gone: according to Scouting NY and movie-locations, a fabric shop later took over the space, and the pressed-tin ceiling survived. Sources disagree on whether it was the old “Luna” restaurant. It is a private business, so photograph from outside.
📍 Staten Island, New York · ≈ 30 min there
A private home in Todt Hill, at 110 Longfellow Avenue. The tall stone wall and gate seen in the film were a styrofoam set, removed long ago; the house itself looks much as it did on screen. A family lives here: photograph quietly from the street and don’t go in.
📍 Staten Island, New York · ≈ 30 min there
The church of Saints Joachim and Anne, on Staten Island’s southern tip. According to movie-locations, it burned shortly after filming; the façade survived, and a smaller church was built behind it. Around it lies a nature preserve with bluffs, a beach on the bay and a path to a lighthouse.
📍 Queens, New York · ≈ 40 min there
A vast Catholic cemetery in Queens facing the Manhattan skyline, the view behind the funeral. According to Scouting NY, the large cross-topped Daly monument seen in the scene is still there, and the grass beside it is where the Corleone monument stood. It is a working cemetery: visit quietly and respectfully.
📍 Sands Point, Long Island · ≈ 1 h 30 min there
A 1920s Normandy-style manor built for Harry Guggenheim on a bluff above Long Island Sound. Today it is part of Sands Point Preserve, with woodland trails, a beach and more Guggenheim mansions. Falaise itself offers seasonal guided tours, usually for a fee; check ahead.
📍 Garden City, Long Island · ≈ 1 h there
Mitchel Air Force Base closed in 1961; its land now holds college campuses, an arena and “Museum Row”, home of the Cradle of Aviation Museum. According to Scouting NY, a small remnant of the runway where the tollbooths were built, runway 5/23, survives by one of Nassau Community College’s parking lots.
Itineraries
All times here are estimates (a rough visit time plus travel by distance). Check opening hours and tickets before you go.
Estimate: ≈ 5 h 40 min
Start at 7B facing Tompkins Square, walk young Vito’s East 6th Street, continue to the Old Cathedral, Elizabeth and Mulberry, and down Mott Street. From there it’s ten minutes to the courthouse steps and ten more to the Federal Reserve. About 4 km.
Estimate: ≈ 9 h 15 min
Start at 7B facing Tompkins Square, walk young Vito’s East 6th Street, continue to the Old Cathedral, Elizabeth and Mulberry, and down Mott Street. From there it’s ten minutes to the courthouse steps and ten more to the Federal Reserve. About 4 km.
All five are a few blocks apart: from the Waldorf on Park Avenue to St Patrick’s Cathedral and Olympic Tower opposite, on to the St. Regis on 55th Street, finishing under the Radio City sign. About 2 km. The former McBurney YMCA in Chelsea is a quarter of an hour away by subway.
Day 1 · ≈ 9 h 15 min
Start at 7B facing Tompkins Square, walk young Vito’s East 6th Street, continue to the Old Cathedral, Elizabeth and Mulberry, and down Mott Street. From there it’s ten minutes to the courthouse steps and ten more to the Federal Reserve. About 4 km.
All five are a few blocks apart: from the Waldorf on Park Avenue to St Patrick’s Cathedral and Olympic Tower opposite, on to the St. Regis on 55th Street, finishing under the Radio City sign. About 2 km. The former McBurney YMCA in Chelsea is a quarter of an hour away by subway.
Day 2 · ≈ 6 h 45 min
Take the Staten Island Ferry from Lower Manhattan: free, about 25 minutes, with the Statue of Liberty on the way. From the terminal, a cab or car to the house on Longfellow Avenue (photograph from the street), then on to the south shore, the old Mount Loretto church and the nature preserve around it.
From the corner where Sonny beats Carlo in East Harlem, head north to White Plains Road in the Bronx, site of Louis’ Restaurant. You can also take the 2 or 5 subway lines, which run along the street on elevated tracks.
Estimate: ≈ 6 h 5 min
Start with the Manhattan view from Calvary Cemetery in Queens, drive east to Sands Point Preserve and Falaise, and finish at Museum Row on the old Mitchel Field. Check Falaise’s tour hours before you go.
Tips
Most places are in Manhattan and easy on foot and by subway; each of the two walking routes takes about half a day. For Staten Island, Queens and Long Island a car or cab is easier.
The Staten Island Ferry is free and runs all day from Lower Manhattan. Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty are reached by paid ferry from Battery Park or Liberty State Park.
The Staten Island house, the Miami house, the Beverly Estate and Fleur du Lac are private. Photograph from the street or the water; don’t enter the grounds or disturb the residents.
Cover shoulders and knees in churches and keep quiet during services. St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral offers paid tours, including the catacombs.
Opening hours and prices change, and businesses close. Check the place’s Google Maps card, linked here, before you set out.
FAQ
This guide has 24 filming locations in New York, from the “The Godfather beyond Sicily” collection, where 27 scenes were filmed. Each place has what was filmed there, what’s there today and a Google Maps link.
In almost every borough. The wedding was filmed at a house on Staten Island, the shooting of the Don on Mott Street in Little Italy, the restaurant scene in the Bronx, the funeral at Calvary Cemetery in Queens and the baptism at St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral on Mulberry Street. According to Wikipedia, about 90% of the first film was shot in and around New York. This guide covers 43 scenes at 38 places, each linked to Google Maps.
At 110 Longfellow Avenue on Staten Island. It is a private home, so you can only see it from the street. The stone wall and gate in the film were a styrofoam set, removed long ago. Take the free Staten Island Ferry, then a cab or car.
In the story, at a tollbooth on the Jones Beach causeway. According to Wikipedia, three tollbooths were actually built on a runway at Mitchel Field on Long Island; it took three days and cost over $100,000. Movie-locations names Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn instead.
No. Part II’s 1917 Little Italy was filmed on East 6th Street between Avenues A and B, in the East Village. The shopfronts were covered, carts and horses brought in, and the block went back to the early 20th century. Interiors such as Vito’s apartment were built at the Paramount studios.
The guide has ready itineraries for half a day, one day, two days and one more day. As a rough estimate, all the places together take about 30 h 25 min of visiting and travel at a normal pace. The planner splits them into one to five days, at the pace you choose.
Yes. In the trip planner you pick the number of days, a pace and how you’ll get around, and get a day-by-day plan with time estimates, a map for each day and Google Maps directions. The plan is saved in your browser, and you can send it as a link.
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