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Fulton Street Folly

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Fulton Street Folly	comment	Even though there are 4.85 other boroughs in New York City (if you count Staten Island), Lower Manhattan is used disproportionately often in many films and shows because it's easier to film in; the Financial District empties out like a Ghost City on the weekends. Many of the streets are already blocked off, and there are few residents to complain if an entire neighborhood is overrun by camera crews and catering trucks. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })As a result, anything which is nominally set (or could be set) in other parts of the city will still have scenes filmed downtown even if there's no compelling reason for the characters or action to be there. A story about stock brokers makes sense, but for everything else, it's because it's an easy shooting location. The corner of Wall and Broad Streets is a popular spot because, being the location of the New York Stock Exchange, it's been closed to traffic for years. It's also the location of Federal Hall, which easily doubles for any other columned government building. Hardly a weekend goes by without something being filmed there. The trope name comes from Robert Fulton, whose 1807 steamboat, the North River Steamboat,note colloquially known as the Clermont, a name that never used while she was in service; see The Other Wiki for more details was contemporaneously ridiculed as "Fulton's folly"note Previous steamboats had been woefully underpowered, leading the Unwashed Masses™ to believe the technology was completely infeasible, and who has a prominent local street named for him and is buried at nearby Trinity Church. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })A subtrope of Big Applesauce, where things happen in New York even though they could be reasonably set in any other city, state or country, as well as New York Is Only Manhattan, where in works focusing on New York (State or City) only Manhattan gets prominence. Not to be confused with Fulton Street Foley, the sound of urban combat and mobilized emergency vehicles as Lower Manhattan falls under lockdown.
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Fulton Street Folly / int_28fe1376	type	Fulton Street Folly
Fulton Street Folly / int_28fe1376	comment	The filming of the Fringe episode where skin grows over every orifice of the victim's bodies had this: the first guy getting attacked at the magazine stand was filmed on Fulton Street.
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Fulton Street Folly / int_296b64f6	comment	In & Out includes a Federal Hall scene in the award-winning movie-within-a-movie.
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Fulton Street Folly / int_2a8d8e6f	type	Fulton Street Folly
Fulton Street Folly / int_2a8d8e6f	comment	Surprisingly averted in Gotham, a TV series set in DC Comics' Gotham City and showing the rise of a young Bruce Wayne into Batman. It films in the Bronx, not lower Manhattan. The production team explained that they did this on purpose, citing this trope (not by name) - they explained that so many TV shows and movies are filmed in lower Manhattan that they're visually too familiar to viewers. They wanted Gotham to look like an alternate fictional city, sort of "New York Gothic" in tone but not quite recognizable, as part of the Anachronism Stew they were also shooting for (cars and furniture mostly from 1940's Noir, but everyone has cell phones, etc.) Thus they scouted out relatively unused locations in the Bronx, like an old courthouse which actually was part of "New York City" architecture in the 1930's, but which no one really thinks of that way anymore because TV audiences are so used to seeing the updated looks of lower Manhattan.
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Fulton Street Folly / int_3e374b30	comment	The Dark Knight Rises was mostly filmed in Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, and New York City. The Stock Exchange that Bane and his men attack 40 minutes into the movie is represented by the J.P. Morgan Building at 23 Wall Street (on the exterior, at the least; a facility in Los Angeles was used for the interior).
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Fulton Street Folly / int_5957104c	comment	Justified in Deep Impact when the tidal wave visibly destroys Lower Manhattan, as that's the portion of the island facing the bay.
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Fulton Street Folly / int_884b3eb6	comment	Sonny in Big Daddy lives near the South Street Seaport for no apparent reason yet spends a considerable amount of time hanging out in Central Park.
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Fulton Street Folly / int_8dfbdff2	comment	Averted in the Law & Order franchise, which roams up and down Manhattan. Although the Federal building does feature in most episodes, that's because it's the courthouse. Ironically, the "courthouse" used on Law & Order is the civil courthouse. The criminal courthouse is a block away, but doesn't look as cool.
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Fulton Street Folly / int_9f1284a8	type	Fulton Street Folly
Fulton Street Folly / int_9f1284a8	comment	I Am Legend (2007) is set mostly downtown and uses South Street Seaport as the broadcast rendezvous spot.
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Fulton Street Folly / int_c487221e	comment	The headquarters of Men in Black are located under Battery Park.
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Fulton Street Folly / int_c6245086	comment	Almost all of Crysis 2 takes place on Manhattan. Subverted when the final mission takes place in Central Park which the aliens have suspended half a mile off the ground.
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Fulton Street Folly / int_c9cd78c2	comment	Die Hard with a Vengeance features a Wall Street subway bombing. (And subverts it by using the explosion to break into the Federal Reserve (which is actually a couple blocks away).)
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Fulton Street Folly / int_de8f6b17	comment	Godzilla in the 1998 movie makes its first appearance stomping up Broad Street and stepping over Federal Hall.
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Fulton Street Folly / int_ec6b71cf	comment	Rage Against the Machine played "Sleep Now in the Fire" on the steps of Federal Hall (across from the NYSE) on a weekday, without a permit, for their video.
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Fulton Street Folly / int_eca201fb	comment	National Treasure features scenes at Trinity Church. Justified in that the treasure was hidden there around the time of the Revolutionary War, when a majority of Manhattan Island was undeveloped.
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Fulton Street Folly / int_eec5a4b2	comment	The Bone Collector is largely set downtown. The manhole-cover bomb scene takes place at Wall and Broad Streets, between Federal Hall and the New York Stock Exchange.
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Fulton Street Folly / int_f5c936a3	comment	Much of the first act of Cloverfield takes place near City Hall.
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Fulton Street Folly / int_fa3e8179	comment	Lower Manhattan doubles for Metropolis in many of the street scenes in Superman.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Deep Impact / int_bc54e772	type	Fulton Street Folly
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_bc54e772	type	Fulton Street Folly
Men in Black / int_bc54e772	type	Fulton Street Folly
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The Dark Knight Rises / int_bc54e772	type	Fulton Street Folly
12 Angry Men / int_bc54e772	type	Fulton Street Folly
You Don't Mess with the Zohan / int_bc54e772	type	Fulton Street Folly
In the Heights (Theatre) / int_bc54e772	type	Fulton Street Folly
Crysis (Video Game) / int_bc54e772	type	Fulton Street Folly
Jet Set Radio (Video Game) / int_bc54e772	type	Fulton Street Folly

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