Men in Black II (2002)
- Documented locations
- 17
- Year
- 2002
- Directed by
- Barry SONNENFELD
- Cities
- New York, Culver City, New York City, Fire Island, Pasadena
New York, United States
Stainless steel dining car located at the corner of Tenth Avenue and 22nd Street in Chelsea. Long operated under the name Empire Diner, it has also served as a set for Manhattan by Woody Allen and Igby Goes Down; the sign has since changed.
The scene : 8 minEight minutes after the credits, Agent J brings the teammates he deems unsuitable to the counter of this diner to have them neutralized; he returns later with Laura Vasquez.
Famous Ben's Pizza
New York, United States
The scene : 9 minAt the ninth minute, the film enters this pizzeria in SoHo, at the corner of Spring Street and Thompson Street, where Laura Vasquez (Rosario Dawson) works as an employee.
New York, United States
The scene : The film opens with the historic building of the museum, which borders Central Park West at 79th Street.
New York, United States
The scene : The shooting report mentions this glass wing of the museum without specifying the scene.
New York, United States
The scene : A photographic survey from 2024 identifies this room as a filming location; the scene is not described there.
New York, United States
The scene : The planetarium appears in a photographic report dedicated to the film's locations, with no mention of the scene filmed.
New York, United States
Monumental Beaux-Arts style train station inaugurated in 1913, one of the largest in the world by the number of platforms, located on 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan. It was designed by the architectural firms Reed and Stem and Warren and Wetmore and is a dead-end underground railway station.
The scene : Five independent reports place a shot in the terminal; none specifies which one.
New York, United States
A vast 6-hectare lawn located to the southwest of Central Park, formerly a sheep grazing area until 1934.
The scene : The large lawn of Central Park, between 66th and 69th Street, hosted a sequence of the film; the report does not specify which one.
Hugh L. Carey Tunnel Ventilation Building (Battery Place)
New York, United States
Hugh L. Carey Tunnel ventilation building — the former Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel — at the southern tip of Manhattan, on the Battery Place side. The same tunnel has a second ventilation building on Governors Island. Its construction in the 1940s removed part of the area known as Little Syria.
The scene : Behind the tunnel's ventilation shaft are, as in the other two installments of the series, the exteriors of the headquarters where agents receive and process extraterrestrials.
90 Orchard Street
New York, United States
Corner building of the Lower East Side, at the intersection of Broome Street; Scorsese later installed Umberto's Clam House from The Irishman there.
The scene : The corner building of the Lower East Side becomes the pawn shop at the intersection of Broome Street.
Culver City, United States
Large film studios of Culver City, located on the former MGM lot, home to Sony Pictures.
The scene : The film's interiors were shot on the Culver City lot; no source names the soundstages used.
New York City, United States
Iconic crossroads of Manhattan at the intersection of Broadway and 7th Avenue, famous for its giant advertising screens and constant crowds.
The scene : The shot is set in Times Square, between 42nd and 47th Street.
New York, United States
The scene : A shop on St Marks Place, between 2nd and 3rd Avenue, serves as a backdrop; the source does not name either the sign or the scene.
Fire Island Lighthouse
Fire Island, United States
Lighthouse located at the western tip of Fire Island National Seashore, near Robert Moses State Park. Owned by the US Coast Guard, it is maintained by the Fire Island Lighthouse Preservation Society in cooperation with the National Park Service.
The scene : The Fire Island lighthouse serves as the post office where Agent K works; the film is set in Massachusetts.
New York, United States
Midtown office skyscraper on Sixth Avenue, long known as the McGraw-Hill Building after the publisher that occupied it.
The scene : It is in front of this skyscraper on Sixth Avenue that the alien Jeff appears for the first time: he slips a flower through the subway grate.
New York, United States
The scene : The entrance to the subway, at the corner of 81st Street and Central Park West, is listed in the shooting locations.
Pasadena, United States
The scene : Three reports cite Pasadena among the Californian filming locations, without specifying an address.