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JESSICA JONES SEASON 1

EXTERIOR

The filming style for this series and the lack of a prominent sign outside the building might make it difficult to realize that this particular structure is the building that houses Alias Investigations.

The production chose a building on W 101st Street at the corner of Broadway as Jessica’s apartment and office building for the exteriors of Season 1. The second season would establish a new exterior for her offices.

  • Exterior windows of Alias Investigations building.
  • Nighttime view of front entrance to Alias Investigations building.
  • Front entrance to Alias Investigations building.

Stairwell and Lobby

The stairwell and lobby shots seen in episodes 1 & 2 were also shot in the same building as the exterior, on 101st Street.

  • Jessica running down stairs in Alias Investigations building.
  • Jessica walking through lobby in Alias Investigations building.
  • Jessica exiting Alias Investigations building.
  • Ruben in front lobby of Alias Investigations building.
  • Jessica in the lobby of Alias Investigations building.

Street Outside Building

In episode 2, Trish meets Jessica outside the building (just a bit further East, by the building alley). Then, in episode 3, Jessica witnesses Malcolm get hit by a cyclist and helps him out.

  • Jessica and Trish on sidewalk near near her office building.
  • Jessica on sidewalk outside Alias Investigations building.
  • Jessica watching cyclist and Malcolm outside Alias Investigations building.
  • Jessica watching cyclist and Malcolm outside Alias Investigations building.

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Jessica Jones’s Office, 5F

The hallway outside Jessica’s apartment and her office was created on a soundstage. Jessica’s office is 5F, given that Ruben and Robyn’s apartment (just above her) is 6F. The sign in Jessica’s window, as seen in episode 3, says “Alias Investigations, 5th Floor.”

  • Hallway outside Alias Investigations office.
  • Jessica in her office with Mrs Shlottman.
  • Jessica in her office with Mrs Shlottman.
  • Jessica sitting on couch in her office.
  • Jessica in her office.
  • Hallway to Alias Investigations.
  • Jessica in her apartment kitchen.
  • Jessica in the Alia Investigations office.

Ruben and Robyn’s Apartment, 6F

Presumably, the hallway outside Ruben and Robyn’s apartment was a redressing of the hallway outside Jessica’s apartment.

  • Ruben and Robyn in the sixth floor hallway of Jessica's building.

Malcolm Ducasse’s Apartment, 5D

In Episode 3, Jessica helps Ruben get Malcolm safely back to his apartment, which is shown as 5D.

  • Jessica outside Malcolm's apartment, #5D.

Episode 13 provides the In-Universe street address for the building as 485 W 46th St, New York, NY 10036, as seen on Jessica’s business card. This would put her squarely inside Hell’s Kitchen.

  • Close-up of Jessica's business card.

THE DEFENDERS SEASON 1

The Defenders series also features Jessica’s building and office in several episodes. Most of the scenes take place in Jessica’s still-destroyed office, but Episode 2 features Jessica running through the lobby and out the front door, where Misty Knight happens to be standing to take Jessica into custody.

  • Reflection of Jessica Jones in the elevator of her building.
  • Jessica Jones exits the elevator in her building.
  • Michelle and Lexi Raymond in the hallway of Jessica's building.
  • Shot looking through a hole in the wall of Alias Investigations.
  • Jessica Jones and Malcolm looks at her computer in Alias Investigations office.
  • Malcolm in the Alias Investigation office.
  • John Raymond holds Malcolm at gunpoint.
  • John Raymond holds Malcolm at gunpoint as Jessica stands by.
  • Jessica runs down the stairway in her building.
  • View of Jessica Jones stairway.
  • Jessica exits her building.
  • A bloody Jessica on the sidewalk outside her building.
  • Jessica outside Alias Investigations office.
  • Jessica at her Alias Investigations desk.
  • Jessica exiting her elevator outside Alias Investigations.
  • Malcolm patching the wall in Jessica's office.

JESSICA JONES SEASON 2

Exterior

Season 2 opted to establish a new exterior to Jessica’s building. The reason is probably related to the increased amount of exterior filming that was needed for this season, but there could be other factors involved as well. Major exterior scenes include: Jessica chasing the Whizzer (episode 1), Jessica returning home the next morning after a night of drinking (episode 3), Jessica’s arrest by the police (episode 4), Jessica looking for her mom (episode 8), Oscar taking out the trash and discovering broken glass and Alisa’s arrest (episode 9), and Alisa’s RV parked outside the building (episode 12).

This new exterior is located at 180 Claremont Avenue in Morningside Heights, about 2 miles north of the 101st Street location used in the first season. In some scenes where a street sign is visible, the text for LaSalle has been replaced by 9th Ave, the major street just west of Jessica’s In-Universe address on W 46th Street.

  • Front entrance to Alias Investigations building.
  • Trish exiting the front of the Alias Investigation building.
  • Trish walking to her car in front of the Alias Investigation building.
  • Jessica trying to stop the Whizzer in front of the Alias Investigation building.
  • Jessica trying to stop the Whizzer in front of the Alias Investigation building.
  • The Whizzer being blocked by moms and baby carriages on a sidewalk in front of the Alias Investigation building.
  • The Whizzer racing past Jessica on a sidewalk in front of the Alias Investigation building.
  • Front entrance to Alias Investigations building at night.
  • Jessica walks along the sidewalk back to her apartment building.
  • Jessica walks along the sidewalk back to her apartment building.
  • Nick outside Jessica's building at night.
  • Cars parked on the street outside Jessica's building.
  • Onlookers gathered at a murder scene outside Jessica's building.
  • Onlookers and police gathered at a murder scene outside Jessica's building.
  • Jessica exiting her apartment building.
  • Jessica running along the sidewalk outside her apartment building.
  • Exterior of Alias Investigations.
  • Oscar dumping trash outside Alias Investigations.
  • Oscar looking at broken glass outside Alias Investigations.
  • Alisa running through lobby of Alias Investigations building.
  • Alisa exiting lobby of Alias Investigations building with police outside.
  • Front entrance to Alias Investigations building at night.
  • Alisa's RV parked outside the Alias Investigations building.

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Interior Hallway

In episode 1, Jessica tries to catch up to Pryce Cheng, but is blocked by the new superintendent, Oscar, moving into the building.

This quick sequence with the building’s stairs and hallway is presumed to have also been filmed in the Morningside Heights location. All other hallway shots take place on the set built on soundstages.

  • Pryce walking past the Arodo's furniture in the hallway.
  • Jessica blocked by the Arodo's furniture by the stairway.

Jessica Jones’s Apartment, 5F

As with season 1, Jessica occupies apartment 5F, and her In-Universe address is confirmed (by an eviction notice) as 485 W 46th St, New York, NY 10036.

Jessica’s apartment, hallway, and all the other interior rooms shown in the building are sets created on the soundstages of Broadway Stages.

  • Malcolm waking Jessica in her bedroom.
  • Robert Coleman in the Alias Investigations office.
  • Jessica and Malcolm talk to Pryce in the Alias Investigations office.
  • Jessica in the hallway outside the Alias Investigations office.
  • Oscar changing the lightbulb in the hallway out Alias Investigations
  • Jessica working at her desk in her office.
  • Close-up of eviction notice.
  • Jessica and Jeri in the Alias office.
  • Jessica and Vido in her office.
  • Jessica, Inez and Malcolm in the Alias office.
  • Alisa in the Alias office.
  • Malcolm fixing a shelf in the Alias offices.

Oscar Arocho’s Apartment, 6F

Oscar and his son Vido have moved in upstairs from Jessica, into Robyn and Ruben’s old apartment. Jessica does a little light B&E into the apartment in episode 3, and ends up having a friend with benefits in episode 6.

  • Jessica, Detective Sunday, and Detective Costa speak with Oscar outside his apartment.
  • Oscar and Vido in Oscar's apartment.
  • Jessica enters Oscar's apartment.
  • Vido in Oscar's apartment.
  • Oscar and Jessica in Oscar's apartment.
  • Jessica in Oscar's apartment.
  • Jessica and Oscar rolling on a painted canvas in his apartment.
  • Oscar, Vido, and Jessica in Oscar's apartment.

Malcolm Ducasse’s Apartment, 5D

The interior of Malcolm’s apartment is shown this season for the first time.

  • Malcolm getting out if his bed by a one-night stand.
  • Malcolm on the phone while sitting on his bed.
  • Malcolm in his apartment.
  • Malcolm and Inez in his apartment.
  • Jessica in Malcolm's apartment.

(Jessica Jones S01E01-E13, 2015; The Defenders S01E01-E02, E04, & E08, 2017; Jessica Jones S02E01- E06 & E08-E13, 2018)