You'll recognise the slightly redecorated corridor with its circular mirrors, as the lobby of mobster Nick Valenti's penthouse in Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway. Close to the bustle of Times Square, the Edison itself is a standard hotel, but it's entrance and lobby are Manhattan art deco at its finest. The bar, where Sollozzo ( Al Lettieri) meets up with Luca Brasi, is the Edison Hotel, 228 West 47th Street. The Godfather film location: Luca Brasi goes to meet Sollozzo: Edison Hotel, West 47th Street, New York It’s since been replaced by a pizza joint. This is where Tom Hagen stocks up on presents when Sollozzo’s men invite him for a car ride. Sadly, the model-train heaven, Polk’s Hobby Shop, which stood at 314 Fifth Avenue near 31st Street, is also gone. Although already closed, the store was briefly brought back to life for filming, before being demolished. Nearby on Fifth Avenue between 51st and 52nd Streets in the fashionable stretch of ‘Ladies’ Mile’, stood Best & Co, the New York department store where the pair do their Christmas shopping. If you're popping in for a drink, you might recognise the hotel's King Cole bar, with its famous Maxfield Parrish mural, from films such as Woody Allen’s Radio Days, Hannah And Her Sisters, The Devil Wears Prada and The First Wives Club. Built in 1904 as a companion to the Waldorf-Astoria, the hotel's exterior is briefly seen toward the end of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver. Michael Corleone ( Al Pacino) and Kay ( Diane Keaton) are staying in five-star luxury at the St Regis Hotel, now the St Regis New York, 2 East 55th Street on the corner of Fifth Avenue. The Godfather film location: Michael and Kay stay in Manhattan: St Regis New York, East 55th Street, New York When Don Corleone sends his consigliore, Tom Hagen ( Robert Duvall), to Hollywood, to make the studio head the infamous 'offer he can't refuse', there's a great newsreel shot of the old Hollywood, with Hollywood United Methodist Church on Highland Avenue (featured in movies as far back as George Cukor's 1932 What Price Hollywood?) and Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, 6925 Hollywood Boulevard, still recognisable from the days before the area became swamped by tacky tourist shops and tattoo parlours. As always, please remember these are private homes and respect the residents' privacy. Numbers 110 and 120 are the last houses at the end of the road. Either way, it's about a half hour's walk north to Longfellow Avenue, a leafy cul-de-sac running east from Ocean Terrace. From St George Station, the Staten Island Rapid Transit Railway will take you four stops to Grasmere, or there's a bus service. George Ferry Terminal on Staten Island (for free). The Staten Island Ferry will take you the five mile, 25 minute trip from the Staten Island Ferry Whitehall Terminal at South Ferry to St. A false wall with entrance gate was built across Longfellow Avenue to give the appearance of the house being in a private compound. The Corleone Mansion itself is 110 Longfellow Avenue, in the affluent neighbourhood of Emerson Hill, standing toward the end of a long cul-de-sac. The Godfather film location: site of the 'entrance gate' to the Corleone compound: Longfellow Avenue, Emerson Hill, Staten Island
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