The Cunard Building at twenty-five Broadway is defined by five enormous round-arched limestone openings along its base. Completed in nineteen twenty-one, this twenty-two-story structure was designed by Benjamin Wistar Morris to serve as…
John Wick's New York
We trace the high-stakes footsteps of the legendary assassin through the real-world New York landmarks that bring the films' clandestine underworld to life.
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1. Cunard Building
2. Cocoa Exchange
The Cocoa Exchange, located at one Wall Street Court, is a fifteen-story, triangular-shaped structure that draws immediate attention with its narrow, flatiron-style point at the intersection of Beaver, Pearl, and Wall Streets. Built in…
3. Brooklyn Bridge Park - Pier 1
Pier One is the largest of the park piers at nine and a half acres and stands out as the only one in Brooklyn Bridge Park constructed entirely on landfill rather than on a pile-supported structure. This solid foundation allows for the…
4. Madison Square Park
Madison Square Park is marked by its winding, curved walkways that deliberately avoid any direct route across the grounds. This meandering design, laid out in eighteen seventy by Ignatz Pilat and William Grant, creates a sense of seclusion…
5. New York Public Library - Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building is defined by its massive white marble facade and the two famous marble lions, Patience and Fortitude, that flank its Fifth Avenue entrance. This Beaux-Arts landmark occupies the former site of the Croton…
6. Grand Central Terminal
Grand Central Terminal is defined by its vast main concourse and the famous four-faced clock perched above the central information booth. In the third film, John Wick: Chapter Three—Parabellum, the terminal serves as a stage for an…
7. 620 Loft & Garden
Six hundred twenty Loft and Garden sits seven floors above Fifth Avenue, identifiable by a manicured rooftop garden that features a long reflecting pool and formal plantings. This space occupies the roof of the British Empire Building, one…
8. Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park
The Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park is a four-acre memorial that occupies the entire southern tip of Roosevelt Island. You can identify the site by the granite pavilion at its southern edge, a roofless, open-air structure…
9. Bethesda Terrace
Bethesda Terrace is defined by its two-level structure of New Brunswick sandstone, which connects the southern promenade of the Mall to the water’s edge of the Lake. Conceived in the eighteen fifty-eight Greensward Plan by Frederick Law…