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Midtown NYC Movie & TV Walking Tour With or Without Smart Glasses
New York City, New York, USA
$40
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
Overview
You know these scenes. You've just never stood inside them.
Iron Man flies into his tower behind Grand Central, and Cary Grant slips through the same concourse in North by Northwest. The Chrysler Building appears in Men in Black 3. The city freezes around the Public Library in The Day After Tomorrow, and The Devil Wears Prada plays out in the park behind it. In Home Alone 2, Kevin finds his mother in the Rockefeller plaza. The Beatles walk onto The Ed Sullivan Show. Taxi Driver shows you the Broadway that no longer exists — and King Kong is still hanging over the skyline.
I'm Eloi Gerard. I guided in Hollywood and Downtown Los Angeles for years, and before that I worked as a filmmaker. I built the smart-glass platform this tour runs on, because a photo of a filming location never convinced anybody — you have to see the film where it happened. That idea is the whole tour.
Iron Man flies into his tower behind Grand Central, and Cary Grant slips through the same concourse in North by Northwest. The Chrysler Building appears in Men in Black 3. The city freezes around the Public Library in The Day After Tomorrow, and The Devil Wears Prada plays out in the park behind it. In Home Alone 2, Kevin finds his mother in the Rockefeller plaza. The Beatles walk onto The Ed Sullivan Show. Taxi Driver shows you the Broadway that no longer exists — and King Kong is still hanging over the skyline.
I'm Eloi Gerard. I guided in Hollywood and Downtown Los Angeles for years, and before that I worked as a filmmaker. I built the smart-glass platform this tour runs on, because a photo of a filming location never convinced anybody — you have to see the film where it happened. That idea is the whole tour.
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The experience offers several options. This price includes:
Watch on Guide's iPad
Watch on Guide's iPad: You watch the clip standing where it was filmed, with the guide pointing at the exact spot.
Watch on Guide's iPad: You watch the clip standing where it was filmed, with the guide pointing at the exact spot.
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
The experience offers several options, check yours above
- Booking fees and all taxes included · free cancellation up to 24 hours before departure
- 30 film and TV excerpts from the tour library, played at the places where they were shot
- English Speaking Local Guide
- Smart glasses, supplied for the walk on the Smart Glasses option
- Gratuities
Meeting point
The entrance is on 19 West 50th Street between Le Rock restaurant and Banana Republic.
Return details
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Rockefeller CenterKevin McCallister's New York starts here. Home Alone 2 (1992): he crosses the Queensboro Bridge, photographs the Radio City façade and finds his mother under the Rockefeller tree — your glasses lay those frames over the real plaza. Stand at the 30 Rock forecourt, broadcast headquarters since 1933, then pass Radio City Music Hall, the 6,000-seat home of the Rockettes since 1932.
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Ed Sullivan TheaterThree nights on one marquee. 9 February 1964: 73 million Americans watched the Beatles here — crime stopped, water use dropped, the country sat still for 2:16. Your glasses cut back to Elvis in 1956, filmed from the waist up, then forward to 2009, when Paul McCartney played the same awning for the Late Show. The 1927 theatre has been Letterman's since 1993 and is Colbert's today: one building, three eras of television.
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Times SquareSix films, one intersection. Vanilla Sky (2001) emptied the square for real: a crew closed it for three hours, no CGI — your glasses replay the silence. Taxi Driver (1976) runs the other way, Travis's cab down Broadway past neon that no longer exists. Midnight Cowboy (1969) supplies the most quoted line in New York cinema, born when a real taxi nearly hit Dustin Hoffman. Then The French Connection, Deep Impact, and Captain America waking up 70 years late, exactly where you stand.
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New York Public Library - Stephen A. Schwarzman BuildingThe steps that end the world, twice. The Day After Tomorrow (2004) floods Fifth Avenue and drowns the Rose Main Reading Room; Ghostbusters (1984) opened its franchise with a ghost in the stacks. Between them and Carrie Bradshaw's wedding steps in Sex and the City (2008). Look up at Patience and Fortitude, the 1911 lions, then at the 90-metre reading room behind them.
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Bryant ParkNew York's living room. From the park's 42nd Street edge, look west: the McGraw-Hill Building (1931), Raymond Hood's blue-green slab, is the tower that frames The Devil Wears Prada (2006). Behind you, the library terrace; around you, the lawn that hosts Fashion Week twice a year and turns into a free ice rink in winter.
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Chrysler BuildingThe most destroyed tower in New York. Chrysler's 1930 crown, the tallest structure in the world for eleven months, has been sliced by an asteroid in Armageddon (1998), used as a nest by a winged serpent in Q (1982), and rebuilt as 1969 Midtown in Men in Black 3 (2012), where Agent J jumps between towers that no longer exist. Your glasses take the spire down; then you look up at the real stainless-steel gargoyles, still standing.
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Grand Central TerminalThree films fight over one concourse. The Avengers (2012) put Stark Tower on the MetLife site and staged the Battle of New York at 42nd and Park. I Am Legend (2007) emptied the hall and let the weeds in. North by Northwest (1959) made it a place to disappear — and your glasses add the crop-duster scene Hitchcock shot a continent away. Carlito's Way (1993) ends on this balcony and this escalator; Superman (1978) used the 1913 hall as Metropolis.
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Midtown NYC Movie & TV Walking Tour With or Without Smart Glasses
New York City, New York, USA
$40
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
01
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
02
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We deliver the eVoucher or the Physical box to the recipient
03
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Recipient books the experience and creates unforgettable memories!