Towns & cities

Queens

borough in New York City, New York, United States

United States · 40.7136, -73.8281

Queens is recorded as a filming location for 2 productions. Wikidata records these shoots at town level: somewhere in Queens, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 59 more. 2 video games are also set here.

74 productions were filmed at 41 places inside Queens rather than at Queens itself: listed below, each with the place it was shot.

“The film was shot on location in Queens, Upstate New York, New Jersey and parts of Long Island during spring and summer 1989, with a budget of $25 million.”
Goodfellas (1990) · Wikipedia

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Movies and TV series filmed in Queens

Filmed here, per Wikipedia

Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Queens 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.

And 62 more, per Wikipedia:

Movies and TV series filmed elsewhere in Queens

74 productions shot at 41 places inside Queens, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Queens itself.

The 60 most widely covered are above. The other 14, each with the place inside Queens it was shot at:

Set here

Video games that take place here. A game is filmed nowhere, so this is where the story is set rather than where a camera stood: a different claim from everything above, and kept under its own heading for that reason.

Set here, per Wikipedia

Games whose English Wikipedia article says they are set in Queens, where Wikidata’s narrative-location statement stops at the country. Still a setting and not a shoot, and still a sentence rather than a statement: two steps from the strongest evidence on this atlas, and labelled at both.

Filming locations nearby

Frequently asked questions

What was filmed in Queens?

197 productions are recorded as filmed in Queens, 74 of them at places inside it, including 25th Hour (2002), Unforgettable (2011–2016) and The Godfather (1972). 121 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.

Which is the best known production filmed in Queens?

25th Hour (2002), covered by 35 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.

Where is Queens?

Queens is in the United States. Its coordinates are 40.7136, -73.8281.

What other filming locations are near Queens?

Kew Gardens (under 1 km), West Side Tennis Club (2 km west), Forest Hills (2 km west), Queens College (3 km north) and 2 more, all within 40 km and listed on this page with photographs.

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 Epicgenius, CC BY-SA 4.0.