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Lights, Camera, Action: Top NYC Television and Movie Sites

A unique type of student travel is available In New York City, where groups can learn about the world of television and movies with visits to sites made famous on both the big and small screens.

In the 1990s, Georgette Blau moved into an apartment on the East Side of Manhattan, only to discover that she lived near what had been the Jefferson apartment in the long-running situational comedy, The Jeffersons. This gave Blau an idea to create tours that allow people to straddle fiction and reality by passing the doorsteps of television and movie characters and real-life celebrities. As a result of Blau’s imaginative idea, student tours can shop, eat, drink, and dance at the New York sites that have been featured in movies and on television, including visits to some of the hotspots featured in such shows as The Sopranos, Spider-Man, Friends, and Cosby.

The New York TV and Movie Sites tour is a three-hour motorcoach tour that covers more than 40 sites featured in over 60 television shows and movies. Tourists head to locations from The Devil Wears Prada, The Interpreter, and The Apprentice. From the bus, students also catch a glimpse of the restaurant used in Spider-Man. After so many years seeing it on the television screen, students visit the familiar apartment building where Monica, Chandler, and the other Friends live. Great photo ops are available on the steps of the Cosby townhouse, the Ghostbusters firehouse, and to the diner used in Men in Black and Woody Allen’s Manhattan.

Tours can also be combined with a visit to the historic NBC Studio. An NBC Page serves as a guide for student tours as they visit the television operating center and NBC/Sharp History Theater. The tour also includes a visit to a couple of NBC’s most famous studios, including Saturday Night Live, Today Show, and others. In the make-up room, students see prosthetic pieces built for Saturday Night Live and Late Night with Conan O’Brien.

The two-hour Central Park Movie Sites Tour walks student through some of the famous park’s movie sites, including the Boathouse Caf

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