Metro-General Hospital, New York | MCU: Location Scout

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Metro-General Hospital is a location that spans all the shows in the Netflix universe. It first appeared in Daredevil, but also showed up in Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist. It is visited predominantly as the local Hell’s Kitchen hospital, and also where Claire Temple works. With the exception of the exteriors shown throughout the episodes, the interiors all share (mostly) the same location.

Unless otherwise specified, the interior of the hospital in episodes of Daredevil and the other Netflix shows was filmed at St. Barnabas Hospital in Belmont, the Bronx. This location has been used by many films and shows taping in the New York area. It is notable for its use of blue walls and signage. Exterior locations have been noted separately below. Daredevil Season 2 also made use of the Coler-Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island for Metro-General in several episodes that required stunt work.

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In-Universe

While other locations play the part of Metro-General, the In-Universe address for this hospital is 479 W 58th St, New York, NY, at the north end of Hell’s Kitchen. This location is also a hospital – Mt. Sinai West (which appears in a Jessica Jones episode, but is portrayed by stock footage of a Los Angeles hospital instead).

The address for Metro-General Hospital was visible in Jessica Jones S01E03, on a list of hospitals Jessica found on the internet.

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DAREDEVIL SEASON 1

Exterior (Episode 3)

Ben visits his sick wife, Doris, in the hospital and speaks to the administrator, Shirley, about getting a form signed for the insurance company.

The first establishing shot of the hospital (above and below) is of the NYC Health + Hospitals / Metropolitan Emergency Room as seen from East 97th Street. So far, this is the only exterior of the hospital shown that is actually in New York City.

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Nurse’s Station and Patient Room (Episode 3)

Ben speaks with Shirley at a nurse’s station, walks through a dark hallway, and visits Doris in a patient room.

Emergency Room, Hallway, and Stairwell (Episode 6)

In this episode, Foggy and Karen bring Mrs. Cardenas into the Emergency Room, where she gets seen for injuries from the Hell’s Kitchen bombings. Foggy is also admitted for an injury. Claire returns to the ER to help out, talks briefly to Shirley, and then takes a call from Matt in the stairwell. This was filmed on the 4th Floor of St. Barnabas, as evidenced by the Stair and Elevator signs, and the sign for Nuclear Medicine.

M. Tuths Memorial Wing and Patient Room (Episode 8)

Detective Hoffman comes to visit his partner, Detective Blake, in the “M. Tuths Memorial Wing” of the hospital. Michael Tuths is credited as the Clearance Coordinator on this episode.

Doris Urich’s Room (Episodes 10 & 12)

In episode 10 (and later 12), Ben visits Doris in her hospital room again. This time it’s a different room than was seen in Episode 3, since Ben had been pushing Shirley for upgraded treatment.

Emergency Room, Intensive Care Unit, and Patient Room (Episodes 11 & 12)

Wilson Fisk rushes Vanessa to the closest Emergency Room after a poisoning incident at the end of the previous episode. He spends most of the episode in the hospital ER and in the ICU looking after her.

Parking Lot (Episode 12)

Ben walks through the parking lot at the hospital after visiting Doris. This is presumed to have been filmed at St. Barnabas as well, but could easily be another parking lot in the city.

JESSICA JONES SEASON 1

Emergency Room (Episodes 2 & 3)

Jessica scopes out the nurse’s station before stealing a pair of scrubs and logging into the computer system to find information about the bus accident she caused while under the influence of Kilgrave.

In the following episode, Jessica returns to the ER hoping to be able to steal some medicine, but changes her mind when she sees the large number of employees on duty.

Exterior (Episode 3)

In episode 3 of Jessica Jones, a quick exterior of Metro-General is shown before Jessica enters the ER looking to steal some medicine.

This is a piece of stock footage showing a generic emergency room. However, here at MCU: Location Scout, we aim to locate everything. This emergency room appears to be connected to Detroit Receiving Hospital at 4201 St Antoine, in Detroit.

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Emergency Walk-In (Episode 9)

Will is rushed into the ER after being damaged in an explosion set off by Kilgrave. Trish follows, having raced through town to get him medical attention.

Emergency Room, Halls, and Stairs (Episode 13)

Jessica brings an unconscious Luke Cage into the emergency room, where they are helped by Claire Temple (against her better judgment).

DAREDEVIL SEASON 2

Patient Room, Hallway, and Stairs (Episodes 1 & 2)

Karen takes a wounded Kitchen Irish member, Grotto, to Metro-General and poses as his husband to have him admitted under a false name. This doesn’t stop The Punisher from finding him and shooting up the place. Karen and Grotto flee into the stairwell.

Rooftop (Episodes 1, 10 & 11)

The season opens with Daredevil surveilling the city from a rooftop. This is revealed to be the hospital rooftop. At the end of the episode, the Punisher takes aim at Grotto and Karen as they escape from the Hospital before getting into a fight with Daredevil. Even later in the season, Matt and Claire have a heartfelt discussion on the roof, before The Hand re-kidnaps the prisoners that Matt freed.

The assumption for this location is that the building Matt surveils the city from at the opening of Season 2 (when he hears the sounds of the jewelry theft) is supposed to be the same location where he fights Frank Castle at the end of the episode. The distinctiveness of the rooftop is too unique to be anything else. The production filmed atop a rooftop at the corner of 5th Avenue and W. 17th Street, which looks a little different in recent satellite imagery. An image from circa 2015 is presented below to show how it looked at the time.

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Emergency Exit (Episodes 1 & 2)

Fleeing Frank Castle, Karen, with a wounded Grotto in tow, races out of Metro-General hospital into Karen’s car–driving off to apparent safety.

In the continuing saga of various locations playing part of the giant hospital complex in Hell’s Kitchen, add 34 W 16th Street. The northwest corner of this building, just next to The Church of St. Francis Xavier, was where the characters made their escape, and where the news reporters broadcast from in the following episode.

At the beginning of Episode 2, Foggy walks past an awning for the Greenwich House and comes upon the shooting crime scene outside Metro-General Hospital. He immediately begins searching the area for Matt after overhearing some police chatter.

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Emergency Walk-In and Waiting Room (Episodes 3 & 6)

As tensions rise between local gang members in the wake of The Punisher’s rampage, Foggy and Karen visit the Emergency Room looking for Matt. Foggy defuses a volatile gang confrontation. In Episode 6, Matt, Foggy, and Karen return looking for Frank Castle.

Frank Castle’s Room – Fifth Floor (Episode 6)

After being captured by the police, Frank is admitted to a private area on the 5th Floor of Metro-General. Matt, Foggy, and Karen get admittance in order to represent him, and later the DA has a judge brought in to get his initial plea for his trial.

Refurbished Wing (Episodes 10 & 11)

Matt has Detective Mahoney shunt the infected youth from The Farm to Metro-General in hopes that the Hand won’t follow. They are kept in a recently renovated wing, which is why this area of the hospital doesn’t look the same as in other scenes (and in the story–there is no one else around). As episode 10 ends, Ninja from The Hand begins climbing the walls of the Hospital to remove any ties to the former blood donors.

While most of the hospital interiors in these Netflix shows are shot at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, the production needed more from this particular sequence, most certainly due to the stunt work. Instead, they shot at the Coler Goldwater Hospital at the north end of Roosevelt Island. It is the merging of two separate facilities, Goldwater Memorial Hospital, which was located on the south end of the island until 2013, and Bird S. Coler Hospital, which existed at the current site.

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Supply Room and Hallway (Episode 11)

After the ninja attack at the hospital, Claire and Matt catch their breath in a supply room where she bandages herself after being thrown out a window. Claire warns Matt that he’s in over his head. At the end of the episode, Claire meets Foggy and the two walk out together.

Morgue and Administrative Offices (Episode 11)

After the attack by The Hand, one of the Ninja is taken to the Metro-Hospital morgue, where it’s discovered that the body has been autopsied once before. The Administrator tells Claire to keep her mouth shut. She and Shirley discuss the weirdness outside the Administrative Offices, when Claire decides she’s had enough and quits.

These two hospital locations were also filmed at the Coler Goldwater Hospital at the north end of Roosevelt Island, as noted by the yellow tile. This “morgue” and hallway represented the Riverbank Medical Center morgue and hallway in Season 1 of Jessica Jones.