It’s the second season of The Blacklist and Reddington is already up to no good. We’ve been documenting the film locations so far, just like we did with Season 1 and decided to share them with you early in the season as you guys have been asking for them. We’ll be continuously updating this article with new content each week. As you know, The Blacklist is filmed in New York City, which stands in as Washington D.C., its suburbs, and all the international locations Red and the team go to. Last season, they didn’t do much to conceal the New York locations (Meatpacking as Belarus?) but this year you have to know New York City pretty well to recognize some of the locations. Without further ado:
1. Berlin’s Hideout: 244 Main Street, Staten Island (Episode 1)
Berlin, whom we discover is a one-armed man with a Peter Pan hook, takes Reddington’s ex-wife Naomi to a hideout apartment where he gets up close and personal and takes her Polaroid photo before taking her to another location. The exterior shot of the apartment is located at 244 Main Street, Staten Island above S. Thomas Heating Inc. at the intersection of Amboy Road.
2. Warsaw, Poland aka Forest Hills, NY (Episode 2)
When the CIA safe house in Warsaw where Agent Keene and Ressler are interrogating Kaja, the Monarch Douglas bank employee known as “The Formula,” is compromised, the trio flees into the streets of Warsaw where they get stuck in a police roadblock. By Warsaw, we mean Station Square in Forest Hills, Queens. The kiosks in the center of the square, which have served over the years as a police booth and a taxi stand, were placed with Policja signs. In a another shot, you can see the Tudor Revival style architecture that distinguishes the planned neighborhood of Forest Hills:
In a later scene after they successfully flee from the police roadblock, the agents are directed by Director Cooper at the CIA to a pay phone in the city. Film location wise, this is also right in Station Square, using a telephone booth that has been added. The staircase on the right is the stair to get to the LIRR station platform in Forest Hills:
In a reverse angle, you can see the kiosks again:
Station Square was also the scene of a grisly murder by the Son of Sam killer in 1971. Read on for 4 other beautiful murder scenes in NYC.
3. Coney Island, Brooklyn (Episode 2)
When Reddington gets back to New York City to meet with Berlin, they rendezvous at the Coney Island Boardwalk with the Wonder Wheel in the background. And the meeting point for the handover of Reddington’s wife, in exchange for the bank codes, takes place also in Coney Island behind the parachute jump and the new Thunderbolt roller coaster:
4. Riverside Park
Director Cooper’s meeting with the Mossad agent takes place in supposedly Washington DC, but is shot in Riverside Park with a view looking out towards New Jersey.
5. Phillips Manor Historical Site and Van der Donck Park, Yonkers
In the 3rd episode, where Reddington meets with Keene who asks about the whereabouts of Red’s wife, Naomi, is filmed in Yonkers next to the Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site, not far from the Yonkers train station. They sit in Van der Donck Park, which has a nice rocky creek and pedestrian footbridge. Much of the episode is also filmed in Yonkers, including the car chase from the medical examiner’s office that supposedly takes place in the Maryland. In the scene, we pass industrial buildings in various states of repair and disrepair, including the converted industrial live-work loft Metro 92.
Van der Donck park with
Yonkers Train Station, designed by the same architects as Grand Central Terminal, also appeared in the first season of The Blacklist. We hoped that they’d also swing by the once-abandoned Yonkers/Glenwood powerplant, but didn’t catch a glimpse of it.
Stay tuned for next week!