🏙 Towns & cities
Upper East Side
neighborhood in Manhattan
🇺🇸 United States · 40.7692, -73.9656
Upper East Side is recorded as a filming location for 1 production. Wikidata records these shoots at town level — somewhere in Upper East Side, rather than at one identified spot. Wikipedia names it for 5 more.
1 production was filmed at 1 place inside Upper East Side rather than at Upper East Side itself — listed below, each with the place it was shot.
“Some exteriors were in fact shot on the Upper East Side of Manhattan as a result of the difficulties of using real Harlem locations.”
Movies filmed in Upper East Side
Filmed here, per Wikipedia
Productions whose English Wikipedia article names Upper East Side 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.
- Live and Let Die 1973
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Manhattan Murder Mystery
1993
“The film was shot in the fall of 1992 on the streets of Greenwich Village, the Upper East Side and the Upper West Side.” Wikipedia
- The Nanny 1993–
- Finding Forrester 2000
- An Unmarried Woman 1978
Movies and TV series filmed elsewhere in Upper East Side
1 production shot at 1 place inside Upper East Side, each named beside it. Separate from the list above, which is what Wikidata records against Upper East Side itself.
- Gossip Girl Museum of the City of New York per Wikipedia 2007–2012
Filming locations nearby
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🏙 Towns & cities
New York City
🇺🇸 United States
most populous city in the United States
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🏙 Towns & cities
Manhattan
🇺🇸 United States
borough of New York City, New York, United States
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Staten Island
🇺🇸 United States
borough of New York City, New York, United States of America
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🏙 Towns & cities
East Harlem
🇺🇸 United States
neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
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🛣 Streets & squares
Foley Square
🇺🇸 United States
street intersection in Manhattan, New York
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🏛 Landmarks & buildings
Hempstead House
🇺🇸 United States
Estate in Sands Point, New York, United States
Frequently asked questions
What was filmed in Upper East Side?
7 productions are recorded as filmed in Upper East Side, 1 of them at places inside it, including Léon: The Professional (1994), Live and Let Die (1973) and Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993). 5 of the credits come from Wikipedia articles rather than Wikidata statements and are labelled per Wikipedia.
Which is the best known production filmed in Upper East Side?
Léon: The Professional (1994), covered by 73 Wikipedia language editions, which is how this atlas ranks fame.
Where is Upper East Side?
Upper East Side is in the United States, at 40.7692, -73.9656.
What other filming locations are near Upper East Side?
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 Daniel Case; cropped by Beyond My Ken 03:13, 21 June 2015 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0.