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DO THE RIGHT THING: ANSWER THIS QUESTION

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I got this email from someone in Baltimore. If you know the answer to his question please post it in the comments section. Thanks.

I
was wondering if you knew on which street in Bed-Stuy that "Do the
Right Thing" was filmed?  I will be visiting Brooklyn on Sunday, and I
wanted to (respectfully) walk around the neighborhood, as DTRT is one
of my favorite movies ever.
 
I do not wish to go walking around Bed-Stuy asking the locals a
question they’ve probably heard a billion times. :-)  Exhaustive
Googling has produced nothing.
 
Any advice you can provide is appreciated.
 
 

3 thoughts on “DO THE RIGHT THING: ANSWER THIS QUESTION”

  2. Hey- the information you’re looking for is definitely in the book “five by five”, a book about spike’s first five movies. I don’t have it, but remember skimming it in the bookstore and reading a mention of the specific block

  3. I don’t know about “Do the Right Thing,” but I did watch Spike Lee’s “Jungle Fever” being filmed on my old block on Avenue O and East 56th Street and in the immediate vicinity in September 1990. Flatlands stood in for Bensonhurst because the latter neighborhood’s race relations in the aftermath of the Yusuf Hawkins incident made the filmmakers too queasy to shoot a film about interracial dating there. (The film is dedicated to Yusuf.)
    The Annabella Sciorra’s character’s family’s house was down the block from my family’s house on East 56th Street. The candy store where John Turturro worked was a candy store on nearby Avenue N, where there used to be six candy stores in the ten-block stretch between Utica (E. 50th) and Ralph (E. 60th) Avenues.

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