Settings & Locations
15 entries in the Martin Scorsese compendium.
Las Vegas StripA neon-soaked stage where the house always wins, but the soul often loses.Little Italy, ManhattanFrom Mulberry Bend's foul core to a five-block tourist veneer.1970s New York CityA decaying metropolis where ambition rots and redemption is a fleeting shadow.Upper East SideA Manhattan enclave defined by its long tradition of housing the world's most wealthy, powerful, and…JFK AirportThe site where cargo trucks vanish and the greatest heist in mob history unfolds.Newark, New JerseyThe birthplace of an actor who defined the volatile spirit of Scorsese's mob epics.Madison Square GardenA concrete colossus where Scorsese stages the final reckoning of flesh, sound, and silence.Little Italy, Lower East SideThe neighborhood that raised a generation of Scorsese's most unforgettable, most doomed characters.The CopacabanaThe New York nightclub of the Goodfellas 'Copa shot', Raging Bull and The Irishman.Times SquareA thousand neon faces screaming at once, and no one is looking at you.Five PointsWhere five streets meet, five hundred lives collide in blood and fog.South BostonSouthie: the Irish Catholic neighborhood where The Departed is set.Mulberry StreetA narrow artery of Little Italy where boys become men, saints, and sinners in the same night.The Irish-American community of the Lower East SideA neighborhood that judges you before you even knock on the door.The Italian-American neighborhoods of New JerseySuburbia with a .38 under the armrest: the quiet violence of the New Jersey American Dream.
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