Sutton Place Park
Free to visitMidtown
A small public park on the East River with the Queensboro Bridge right overhead.
- Time there
- 20 minutes
- Best time
- Dawn or sunset
- Cost
- Free
- Good to know
- Riverview Terrace, where the camera stood, is a private street; the north end of the park gives nearly the same view. The Roosevelt Island tram from Spider-Man’s finale runs past the bridge.
Filmed here
Manhattan (1979)
The poster shot: Isaac and Mary on a bench at dawn below the Queensboro Bridge, filmed around 5am at the end of East 58th Street, a block north. The bench is long gone.
Elf (2003)
Buddy stands on the bridge’s footpath and sees Santa’s sleigh coming down into Manhattan.
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