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The Prodigal Son - Revillas Balcony Locat
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    Posted: 18 November 2006 at 7:19am
This is the balcony where the head Revilla (Miguel Pinero), upon being told that his drug depot has gone up in smoke, gazes coldly into the distance and says quietly, "I wanna meet with them." The camera angle then gradually pulls back, until the building is lost in the concrete jungle of Manhattan. A damn cool scene, especially with the ominous Jan Hammer chords and pan-flute motif.
 
The apartment is on the east side of Madison Avenue, between 37th and 38th St. The Pan-Am building is to the north and the Chrysler Building is to the north-east.
 
Lat & long (for the "fly-to" Google Earth function) are:
40.7498241155,-73.9810751645
 
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Another view of the Revillas apartment building itself can be seen in this link - it's the red-brick apartment tucked behind the the French Gothic Polish Consulate building. The balcony is at the top-center of the picture.
 
 
 
 
 
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First of all, welcome to MV.org. It's great to have another person interested in MV shooting locations!

I absolutely LOVED this scene and the Hammer music. It killed me when TNN/SpikeTV trimmed it (they cut some of the part where the camera pans out).

How did you find this? Was it from a script, or did you determine it yourself from context clues?


    
    
    
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Thanks for the welcome, airtommy! I actually used to post here occasionally under the name "Phoenix Daytona", but it's been a few years.

Re Casa Revilla, I figured it out purely from context (Pan Am & Chrysler bldgs.). It also helped that the building next door has very distinctive red roof with turrents each corner!

I got the idea from these screencaps, originally posted by Ell.A:

http://miamivice.info/engine/images/site_images/prod45.jpg
http://miamivice.info/engine/images/site_images/prod46.jpg

Now I'm trying to figure out the location of the windy roof-top meeting later in the episode ("You are out! You are over and out!"), but not much luck yet. You can see the Pan-Am & Empire State buildings in these shots on Acampuller's site:

http://www.rbravo.com/prodigal_son_1.htm

Any ideas?
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welcome Elvis!    I figure the rooftop scene was filmed around the 3rd Ave/Lexington Ave highrises around E41st
I would say , if I was to guess, second highrise  directly South of Chrysler building .
 
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Ok, after much freeze-framing and rewinding of my timeworn VHS copy of TPS, I submit that it's the off-angle, diagonal-looking skyscraper at the north-east corner of Park and 40th St.:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=19&ll=40.751607,-73.977583&spn=0.000973,0.002516&t=k&om=1

Lat/long for Google Earth:
40.7516136968,-73.9775679401

In the first portion of the rooftop scene (when pint-sized Commander Rene is yelling and fingerpointing at C&T), the background pans from the Lincoln Building, to the Pan-Am-Bldg, to the Chrysler Bldg - I think the diagonal-looking building is only one that fits (it's the right height as well, using the Google Earth 3d buildings feature). If you look closely, you can even make out the triangular ventilator grill right where the meeting took place (on the north-west "corner" of the roof).
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cool - next to the one I thought - I will check it out -
Im now over and out !!Wink
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GE is awesome I was able to locate these positions and others from the NY stint just a couple of months ago by using the dvds and ge.  You can figure out almost all of the NY locations with GE. It is amazing.
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GE really helps with the NY locations - they are relatively unchanged since 1985. Big smile

would love to find the exterior shot of Sonnys hotel when he hails the cab in the classic "Take Me Home" Montage at the end of "Prodigal Son" - the building opposite is a brownstone design ( very common in NYC) which doesnt narrow down the possibilities. Unhappy

I remember reading they stayed at The Mayflower in Manhattan during filming Prodigal Son - fronting onto Central Park .
The Mayflower is 15 Central Park West @ the entrance to Central Park.
 
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Originally posted by Elvis Pot Pie

Ok, after much freeze-framing and rewinding of my timeworn VHS copy of TPS, I submit that it's the off-angle, diagonal-looking skyscraper at the north-east corner of Park and 40th St.:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=19&ll=40.751607,-73.977583&spn=0.000973,0.002516&t=k&om=1

Lat/long for Google Earth:
40.7516136968,-73.9775679401


The Federal Home Loan Bank of NY Building.

If you check it out from overhead on Google Maps you can see the distinctive diagonal roof-line that is almost directly opposite the face of the MetLife Building. From street view, looking up, you can see the distinctive green-roofed skyscraper with the white arch from the scene where Commander Rene tries to put the smack down on Crockett and Tubbs just to the left - right where it was in the scene from Prodigal Son.
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