Test Your Film IQ With The Best. Manhattan. Movie. Map. Ever.

If there are two things we love they are movies and New York City maps. Put the two together and you've got a recipe for stopping all productivity at Gothamist HQ. And that is exactly what Bernie Hou of Alien Loves Predator has done, having spent the last five months cramming 91 movie references onto one awesome movie map of New York.

Pretty sweet, right? Even better, you can get a copy of it for yourself. The first person to e-mail the 91 movies in the poster, in order, to Hou will get a free copy of the poster (as well three random runner-ups). Just make sure you notice that the flickr version of the poster numbers each reference! Of course, if you don't feel like doing all that work you can always buy an 18"x24" print of the map for $16. But where is the fun in that?

So far we've been able to name nearly 70 of the references (good thing we just did a post on New York's bridges in movies), including All About Eve, Cruel Intentions, Rear Window, The Seven Year Itch, Three Men and A Baby, and Zoolander. Hou tells us, "There's a few really obscure movies on there, but I actually think that any movie lover could get 'em all with the help of some creative Googling and, of course, the motivation..."

How many can you see?

Contact the author of this article or email tips@gothamist.com with further questions, comments or tips.

By Garth Johnston in Arts & Entertainment on May 4, 2011 4:04 PM

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Angela Bella Puco

You forgot to mention West Side Story(1961.)

Marina Ortiz

The "movie" mapmaker clearly suffers from Tony Graham’s Caucasian myopia – a common malady among lazy, elitist artists. I'll let you in on a little secret, Bernie. There are literally hundreds of films and television programs filmed and/or set in East and Central Harlem and Upper Manhattan, including:

106 & Park (BET)
A Great Day in Harlem (1994)
A Rage in Harlem (1991)
Aaron Loves Angela (1975)
Above the Rim (1994)
Across 110th Street (1972)
American Gangster (2007)
August Rush (2007)
Black Caesar (1973)
Black Rodeo (1972)
Black Roots (1970)
Claudine (1974)
Come Back, Charleston Blue (1972)
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
Crossover Dreams (1985)
Dark Manhattan (1937)
Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)
El Cantante (2006)
El Super (1979)
Emeril (Lagasse) (2000-2001)
From These Roots (1974)
Gloria (1980)
Gordon's War (1973)
Harlem Hot Shots (1940)
Harlem Is Heaven (1932)
Hell Up in Harlem (1973)
Hi De Ho (1947)
In the Street (1948)
Juice (1992)
Jungle Fever (1991)
Killa Season (2006)
King of New York (1990)
Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
Law & Order (2009)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2009)
Live and Let Die (1973)
Looking for Langston (1988)
Madigan (1968)
Malcolm X (1992)
Mo' Better Blues (1990)
Moon over Harlem (1939)
New Jack City (1991)
Paid in Full (2002)
Paradise in Harlem (1939)
Paris Is Burning (1990)
Preaching to the Choir (2006)
Precious (2009)
Pride and Glory (2007)
Queen of Media (2007)
Rachael Ray Show (2002)
Renaissance Reunion (1973/2002)
Reversal of Fortune (1990)
Shaft (1971/2000)
Shaft's Big Score (1972)
Showtime at the Apollo: "Harlem Merry-go-Round" (1955)
Souls of Sin (1949)
Spanish Harlem (2008)
Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)
Strictly Business (1991)
Sugar Hill (1994)
Superfly (1972)
The 25th Hour (City College) (2002)
The Big Timers (1945)
The Black Donnellys (2006)
The Brave One (2007)
The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
The Cool World (1963)
The Cotton Club (1984)
The Guru (2002)
The Hebrew Hammer (2003)
The Ministers (2007)
The Miracle of Spanish Harlem (2010)
The Pawnbroker (1964)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
The Spitball Story (1998)
Throwdown with Bobby Flay (2008)
Who's the Man? (1993)

Oh, and don’t forget about the Lower East Side… I’ll let the other boroughs take it from here.

Marina Ortiz, Founder
East Harlem Preservation, Inc.
www.eastharlempreservation.org

Rammy

Unless I missed them, no Jets, No Sharks, WTF?

will10009

Where's Remo Williams on the Statue of Liberty?

Newhce

I see him!

heresyourcopy

i thought moe green was shot in vegas?

Politburo

That is correct.

Stip

I don't see Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson in Yugo driving across Central Park.

Jen Chung

But they are in the map!

Stip

Yes they are, but Yugo in CP, I mean...

mayorguilliani

the map doesn't go "across 110th street"

ennuipoet

Not unlike most taxis!

Guest

Hard to believe no movies have been filmed, or set, above Central Park.

Guest

Oh, gee-- what a surprise. A map of Manhattan that conveniently "forgets" areas where certain people live.

Guest

I remember when I first moved here and was told by people that they never traveled below 14th st or above 96th. I couldn't believe how ridiculous that was/is.