Lights, Camera, Action: Top NYC Television and Movie Sites

que type of student travel is available In New YorkThe two-hour Central Park Movie Sites Tour walks
City, where groups can learn about the world ofstudent through some of the famous park's movie
television and movies with visits to sites made famoussites, including the Boathouse Café used in
on both the big and small screens.When Harry Met Sally and the park's Bandshell from
In the 1990s, Georgette Blau moved into an apartmentBreakfast at Tiffany's and Kramer vs. Kramer. Groups
on the East Side of Manhattan, only to discover thatalso take a water break at Bethesda Fountain, used in
she lived near what had been the JeffersonRansom and One Fine Day. There are great
apartment in the long-running situational comedy, Thephoto-ops at the famous Tavern on the Green, used in
Jeffersons. This gave Blau an idea to create tours thatGhostbusters and Wollman Rink, featured in movies
allow people to straddle fiction and reality by passinglike Love Story and Serendipity. In all, the tour covers
the doorsteps of television and movie characters andmore than 40 movie and television locations.
real-life celebrities. As a result of Blau's imaginativeSopranoland has never been more alive than it is now
idea, student tours can shop, eat, drink, and dance atwith a four-hour bus tour of sites made famous in the
the New York sites that have been featured in moviessmash-hit The Sopranos. More than 40 location sites
and on television, including visits to some of theon the tour include Father Phil's Parrish and the high
hotspots featured in such shows as The Sopranos,school where A.J. dumped pizza boxes into the pond.
Spider-Man, Friends, and Cosby.Tours also see Pizzland, the Muffler Man, and other
The New York TV and Movie Sites tour is asites from the opening credits. Memorable photo-ops
three-hour motorcoach tour that covers more than 40are taken at the restaurant booth where Tony sat in
sites featured in over 60 television shows and movies.the final scene of the series and on the steps of the
Tourists head to locations from The Devil Wearsdiner where Chris met his untimely end.
Prada, The Interpreter, and The Apprentice. From theFor those student tours visiting Washington, D.C., tours
bus, students also catch a glimpse of the restaurantare also available of the Capitol city's television and
used in Spider-Man. After so many years seeing it onmovie sites. The three-hour bus tour features more
the television screen, students visit the familiarthan 30 locations from 50 movies and television shows
apartment building where Monica, Chandler, and theon this guided tour.
other Friends live. Great photo ops are available on theStudent tours enjoy shopping at the mall where No
steps of the Cosby townhouse, the GhostbustersWay Out and True Lies was filmed, followed by a
firehouse, and to the diner used in Men in Black andchance to stand on the steps of the house used in
Woody Allen's Manhattan.The Exorcist. The tour also visits locations from
Tours can also be combined with a visit to the historicWedding Crashers, West Wing, X-Files, Independence
NBC Studio. An NBC Page serves as a guide forDay, and Forrest Gump. Along the way, student tours
student tours as they visit the television operatingalso take in some of the Capitol's most important and
center and NBC/Sharp History Theater. The tour alsofamous government sites. From classic films of the
includes a visit to a couple of NBC's most famous1970s such as The Godfather II to the recent Mission
studios, including Saturday Night Live, Today Show, andImpossible III, the tour of Washington, D.C., movie and
others. In the make-up room, students see prosthetictelevision sites takes student tours on a journey of the
pieces built for Saturday Night Live and Late Night withtimeline of filming in D.C. Tours are led by local
Conan O'Brien.Washington, D.C., actors.