Men In Black, 1997
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visit the film locations
New York: Flights: JFK Airport
The Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue at East 89th Street (tel: 212.423.3500)
Trivia
The Guggenheim Museum is featured in Woody Allen’s Manhattan
Men In Black location: The alien landing site: Flushing Meadow, Queens
The forbidding entrance to the Men In Black HQ is nothing more sinister than the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel Ventilator Building on Battery Place, north of Battery Park (or so they’d like us to believe).
Men In Black location: The entrance to the Men In Black HQ: Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel Ventilator Building, Battery Park, New York
The ‘spaceship towers’ and giant globe used as the alien landing site are the remnants of the 1964-65 New York Worlds Fair in Flushing Meadow, Union Turnpike-44th Avenue, in Queens (you’ll see them if you take the cab to Manhattan from JFK Airport). The Unisphere, the giant hollow globe trashed by the flying saucer was reconstructed in the studio in Hollywood.
Men In Black location: chasing the alien: Guggenheim Museum, Fifth Avenue, New York
Agent J (Will Smith) encounters his first alien by Grand Central Station. A short chase later and they’re climbing up Frank Lloyd Wright’s white spiral Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue at East 89th Street.
Men In Black location: The jeweller's store: 54 MacDougal Street, Greenwich Village, New York
The ‘Rosenberg Jewellery store’, which gets blown up, is at 54 MacDougal Street, Greenwich Village, while the ‘squid birth’ is at Liberty Park, Jersey City, the tip of New Jersey opposite the Statue of Liberty.
