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Those don’t look anything like The Bronx to me. Except maybe the 4th one, which is my favorite btw.
But The Bronx is more mid rise tenement buildings instead of low rise rowhomes. Also The Bronx is very big on greenspace so you will often times see lots of trees and green mixed in with these streets lined with tenement buildings, which is noticeably absent from all those photos and is very characteristic of The Bronx.
I know North Philly has an el, but those areas under the el in Philly remind me more of Bushwick underneath the M train, or Broadway in Brooklyn under the J/Z trains than anywhere in The Bronx due to all the hipsters, streetart (beautiful streetart though), and building style. All of those things share way more in common with Brooklyn than The Bronx. Though as I said earlier, the average viewer will not know any better.
But someone else mentioned that there was a movie set in The Bronx but shot in Vancouver. I’ve never seen the movie but I feel like that’s one situation where any average viewer should probably be able to tell something is up. I’m just picturing glass towers and mountains, lol.
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^That movie was "Rumble in the Bronx" with Jackie Chan, and it was very noticeable. There were definitely shots of mountains in the background of several scenes, as well as a helicopter with a Canadian registration plate. Probably the worst representation of New York in recent film history. If you haven't seen it, I definitely recommend it though. It's very goofy and often cringe-worthy, but the fights and stunts hold up. It's the film that helped launch Jackie Chan's career in the States, and allowed for "Rush Hour" the next year to be a huge success and make him a star.
"Tenement" does not mean ramshackle old buildings from a post-apocalyptic nightmare. Well, maybe as a colloquialism, but properly, a tenement is just a narrow, high density, low-to-mid rise (5-6 storey) residential building.
Many tenements apartments in NYC are well appointed and pricy. Like in the millions.
Most of the buildings in your samples look more like Mid Atlantic neighborhoods like Camden or Baltimore. That last one is a very interesting structure, though!
These are NYC tenements:
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Toronto is/was used a lot instead of NYC for filming movie and TV.
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Originally Posted by Kar54
I was just going to say Toronto. I think Canadian locations play US locales more than cities here in the states.
Filming locations
This article includes the Suits filming locations. Although the series is set in New York City, it has been mostly filmed in Toronto, Ontario. After filming the pilot in New York City, producers shifted the series shoot to Toronto due to tax credits in Canada.
The last Fast and Furious movie used Cleveland as New York, and I believe the Avengers and Spiderman 3 did as well. Nobody batted an eye.
Nobody batted an eye outside of NYC that is. Hollywood is only trying to fool continental US/international audience. I haven't seen a single movie that had me or anyone else fooled in a movie theater in New York... They usually have a flyover shot of New York skyline and then cut scene to street level that looks nothing like New York. I am sure someone watching a movie from Chicago[insert any other city here] with LA or Atlanta being used for New York would completely believe that is how NYC looks like. I am sure the goal of Hollywood is not to build sets that fool New Yorkers though. If the set fools people in Nashville or Guangzhou, its good enough.
Its a three-way battle between Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago. Strong cases can also be made for Washington, Baltimore, and maybe San Francisco.
The Dark Knight was filmed in Chicago. Gotham City is essentially a fictional gritty representation of NYC, yet they were able to film it in Chicago, and it was one of the biggest gross movies in the last 10 years. Much of it was filmed downtown and I think also Lincoln Park(very dense residential neighborhood directly north of downtown). Believe it or not, Chicago even has a whole neighborhood almost consisting of row houses.
CHICAGO.... Was Thee... PERFECT City., to film The Dark Knight... It TOTALLY worked...I was So glad to see IT... Over New York in This Case.... Loved it...They made it totally fit the bill as Gotham...without it Having " to be a version of New York....filmed in New York., but with another name.
NYC's street lights/traffic lights are very unique, so that's part of why it's easy for me to tell if the scene was really shot in NYC
Yup those small things are very NOTICEABLE and are the "MAKE IT OR BREAK IT"
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