Specific Locations
Well, I have to admit, I am a Seven-Ups junkie. Cannot get enough of this movie, have been a fan of this movie for a very long time, especially the great location footage. I have assembled what I believe is a pretty accurate description of some of the great locations in the film.
Chock Full of Nuts was located at 532 Madison Ave at the intersection of East 54th Street. Vito and Buddy meet four times, the first and last time they meet at the intersection of East 125th Street and FDR Drive North, directly underneath the Triborough Harlem River Lift Bridge on a walkway along the Harlem River. To the north can clearly be seen the Willis Avenue Bridge and to the south can be seen the Randall's Island water tower as well as the Triborough Bridge span extending from Randalls island into Queens. Another meeting between the two takes place near the Jerome Park Reservoir and close to Paul Avenue near the current baseball field adjacent to the Bronx High School of Science, with Dewitt Clinton High School a little further away. The grandstand and small field house are still visible to this day. The exact location of their meeting is down the left field line just past third base. The Jayne Mansfield car crash takes place on the Taconic Parkway near the town of Millwood just east of Echo Lake Park at the exit for Routes 100 and 133. The exit leads to Campfire Road. At the crash scene one can clearly see the rock outcropping that lay just ahead of the 18-wheeler as well as the rock outcropping on the Pontiac Ventura's passenger door side. The scene where Vito meets Moon on the waterfront to discuss stopping the kidnappings was tough to find but I believe it was filmed in Weehawken, NJ, on Port Imperial Boulevard just north of the Lincoln Tunnel and south of Regency Place. The final location and my personal favorite is garage man Toredano's house. Located on Erskine Place in the Baychester section of the Bronx just south of Co-Op City and two blocks from the Bay Plaza Shopping Center. Toredano's house was located on Erskine Place between Hunter and Boller Avenues. The final shootout took place near where Erskine Place meets De Reimer Avenue but across the train tracks in what can be classified as Pelham Bay Park (just a bit north of the highway cloverleaf). This area has been cleaned up considerably and contains none of the former ice cube coolers and small brown wooden shacks seen in the movie. Highway 95 can also be seen in the background. I believe these are accurate locations and any further help would be welcomed. The Seven-Ups - love this movie
No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn ..... JM