Establishing Shots, New York City | MCU Location Scout

Establishing shot of New York City.

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THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER

Episode 1

This first establishing shot shows the Brooklyn Bridge in the foreground and the financial district of Manhattan in the background.

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Episode 5

This nighttime shot of Manhattan sets the stage for the final sequence in Episode 5 and the upcoming conflict in Episode 6.

Stock footage of the city at night is taken at the southern tip of Manhattan, looking at the financial district.

  • Establishing shot of New York at night. text: New York City.

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HAWKEYE

To establish the location and time of this series, multiple establishing shots reveal different snowy, cold, & Christmasy areas of New York City.

Most shots of Manhattan are taken from Brooklyn looking West or from Governors Island looking North, but Hawkeye uses a more unique shot starting above the Hoboken, New Jersey, Transit Terminal and panning up to view the West side of the city.

  • Aerial view of snowy New York train station.
  • Nighttime aerial view of New York City.

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Additional shots of the city from this episode include Grand Central Terminal, Rockefeller Center (specifically the ice rink), a street-corner busker (in front of Buchmann Tower at 5th Ave and W 54th St), and the Empire State Building, (plus two other aerial shots of east end of Rockefeller Center at 5th Ave, and the ice rink), all decked out for the holidays.

  • Nighttime aerial view of New York City Grand Central Terminal.
  • View of Ice Rink at Rockefeller Center in New York City.
  • Nighttime view of trumpeter on cold snowy New York sidewalk.
  • Nighttime aerial view of Rockefeller Center in New York City.
  • Nighttime aerial view of Empire State Building in New York City.
  • Nighttime aerial view of Rockefeller Center in New York City.

ECHO

Episode 1

Maya and William move to New York City, where he begins to work for the Kingpin of crime, Wilson Fisk.

Several establishing shots of New York City are used in the Echo series to establish the time frame between 2007 and Christmas of 2024–as shown in the Hawkeye mini-series. The above image is an aerial view of the financial district of Manhattan looking west, centered at the skyscraper located at 28 Liberty Street, New York.

  • Aerial view of Manhattan at sunset. Text: New York.

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A quick backward-facing street view starts at E 21st Street and heads south on 5th Avenue. The Empire State Building can be seen in the top center of the shot.

  • Street in downtown New York.

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Episode 2

Just before the sequence at the Fisk Warehouse in Brooklyn, an aerial view of Manhattan is shown, focusing on the Financial District, with Governor’s Island and Brooklyn in the Background.

  • Establishing shot of New York city.

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Episode 4

An introductory shot, labeled 2008, sets up a scene with young Maya coming out of school to meet her “Uncle” Wilson. This is a shot looking uptown centered around E38th Street and Lexington Avenue.

  • Aerial view of New York City. Text: 2008.

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(The Falcon and The Winter Soldier S01E01 & E05, 2021; Hawkeye S01E01, 2021; Echo S01E01-E02 & E04, 2024)