# Where is the Planet Express Building located? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 19, 2004, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-planet-express-building-located/270016 "2004-10-19T12:55:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2004, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-planet-express-building-located/270016/1 "2004-10-19T12:55:16Z")
In all of the establishing shots we can clearly see that The Planet Express Building in Futurama is situated near water. It looks to me to be the East River, but can’t even be sure whether it’s in Manhattan or Queens (I suppose it could even be on Roosevelt Island). Anyone have any closer guesses? Are there any points where we get a more specific establishing shot? ---
**Author:** ![Catalyst](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@Catalyst](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catalyst)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2004, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-planet-express-building-located/270016/2 "2004-10-19T13:46:31Z")
It’s also possible that the local geography has changed in the last thousand years; it might be some new body of water, probably named after a 20th century politician or rapper. ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2004, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-planet-express-building-located/270016/3 "2004-10-19T13:54:25Z")
> [@Catalyst](#): > > It’s also possible that the local geography has changed in the last thousand years; it might be some new body of water, probably named after a 20th century politician or rapper. Word. As we saw a few times throughout the series, everything from Old New York is underground. Remarkable how the supports down there can not only hold up a pretty substantial city, but large bodies of water as well. Now that’s 30th century engineering! ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2004, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-planet-express-building-located/270016/4 "2004-10-19T14:01:44Z")
It’s also amazing how Fry’s childhood house has managed to still stand after a thousand years. ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2004, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-planet-express-building-located/270016/5 "2004-10-19T14:05:38Z")
> [@Agrippina](#): > > It’s also amazing how Fry’s childhood house has managed to still stand after a thousand years. lol that was a great scene. We see the house that looks like it has had a long 1,000 years, then go back in time to see it looked that bad to begin with. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2004, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-planet-express-building-located/270016/6 "2004-10-19T17:10:36Z")
> [@Agrippina](#): > > It’s also amazing how Fry’s childhood house has managed to still stand after a thousand years. Of course, New New York shelters it from the weather. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-planet-express-building-located/270016/7 "2004-10-20T01:23:53Z")
It was probably a river or lake carved out by the lasers of the fleets of flying saucers that demolished Earth civilization a couple of times during that thousand years. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-planet-express-building-located/270016/8 "2004-10-20T06:12:51Z")
Mildly interesting factoid about NNY geography: In the first episode, a man stepping into the transport tube gives his destination as “JFK junior Airport”, which was worth a mild chuckle until the real JFK junior died in a plane crash. Subsequent broadcasts have the destination changed to “Radio City Mutant Hall”. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2004, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-planet-express-building-located/270016/9 "2004-10-20T06:32:25Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Mildly interesting factoid about NNY geography: In the first episode, a man stepping into the transport tube gives his destination as “JFK junior Airport”, which was worth a mild chuckle until the real JFK junior died in a plane crash. Too bad they didn’t realize that actually makes it funnier. 😉