Do the Right Thing ↗︎
Spike Lee turns one Bedford-Stuyvesant block into a whole city
Yale's production notes describe six weeks of preparation and eight weeks of filming on one Stuyvesant Avenue block. The crew built Sal's Famous Pizzeria and the Korean grocery across from one another, repainted façades in heat-saturated oranges and reds, and transformed a real residential street into the film's compressed social universe. The map therefore marks the block rather than pretending one surviving doorway can represent the temporary sets.
Source confidence: verifiedActual geography
Stuyvesant Avenue between Quincy Street and Lexington Avenue
Depicted geography
Sal's block in Do the Right Thing
