🏙 Towns & cities
Chinatown
neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City, United States
🇺🇸 United States · 40.7147, -73.9972
Chinatown is recorded as a filming location for 1 production. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Chinatown, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 4 more.
“Another scene was shot in Nom Wah Tea Parlor in Manhattan's Chinatown.”
Movies filmed in Chinatown
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Chinatown as somewhere it was shot, with no matching statement on Wikidata. Weaker evidence than the statements above, so it gets its own list — each production’s own page links the exact section the claim comes from.
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2 2014
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
2011
“On May 16, 2011, scenes were shot on the streets of the Lower East Side and Chinatown.” Wikipedia
- Madame Web 2024
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Year of the Dragon
1985
“As shooting on-location in Manhattan Chinatown, the film's primary location, would've been prohibitively expensive, a full-scale recreation of the location was constructed on the De Laurentiis Studios (now EUE/Screen Gems Studios) backlot in Wilmington, North Carolina.” Wikipedia
Named here by Chinatown’s own Wikipedia article
Productions this page’s own Wikipedia article says were shot at Chinatown, where neither Wikidata nor the production’s own article records it. That is the weakest evidence on this atlas, so these get no pin on the map and stay out of the downloads — the sentence is quoted in full below each one so you can judge it.
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Gangs of New York 2002
“During the 19th century, this was the most dangerous ghetto area of immigrant New York, as portrayed in the book and film Gangs of New York.” Wikipedia
Filming locations nearby
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Frequently asked questions
What was filmed in Chinatown?
5 productions are recorded as filmed in Chinatown, including Léon: The Professional (1994), The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011). 4 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed in Chinatown?
Léon: The Professional (1994), covered by 73 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Chinatown?
Chinatown is in the United States, at 40.7147, -73.9972.
What other filming locations are near Chinatown?
New York City, Manhattan, Staten Island, East Harlem and 2 more, all within about 40 km and listed on this page.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, joined to the place's coordinates and Wikipedia article, plus places named in Wikipedia articles, which are labelled per Wikipedia wherever they appear. The photograph is from Wikimedia Commons, by Chensiyuan, CC BY-SA 3.0.