The tourism folks in Winslow are on the job:
Cortlandt Alley has become famous for being the one alley that stands in for all fictional NYC alleys. If you are filming an alley scene in NYC that’s where they are filmed. It’s existence in many movies and TV shows makes people think there are lots of alleys in New York so more of those scenes are written. In reality there are almost no alleys in Manhattan which makes it necessary for one to stand in for all.
The strip club Satin Dolls was make famous when it was used as the Bada Bing in The Sopranos.
I’ve never been in it (no really) but I’ve driven passed it many times. It’s on a major highway.
Here’s Vampire Weekend using Cortland Alley
https://youtu.be/1e0u11rgd9Q
It really is what an alley should look like.
Some of you have very different ideas than I do about what makes a “normal” place. The most normal place I can think of is a parking garage, but the Red Ball Garage is famous as the starting point of the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining Sea Memorial Dash, both of which became more famous when the race and the garage were featured in the film called The Cannonball Run.
I mostly piped in to say that Mrs. Charming and Rested had our first kiss after visiting one of the sites on this list.
The Hawthorne Grill had a few years of fame after it was used as the diner in Pulp Fiction (opening scene and last act). I visited a couple of times when I lived out there in the 90s, once on my own, then I took my dad and his co-workers when they were in L.A. for a conference later that year. There was a (kind of shoddy, if memory serves) mural of Pulp Fiction movie characters on one wall by then. Sadly, it was closed wheh I tried to take a GF there a year later, and the internet says it’s been demolished for an auto pats store.
Patrick McGoohan was quite taken by its quirky architecture when he filmed a couple of episodes of Danger Man (aka Secret Agent) there. I’ve looked them up and watched them… it might be as close to The Village as I get*.
(Cued up to the village, but it’s not quite the same in black and white)
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*Unless I drive my Lotus 7 into an underground office, resign, and never tell them why…