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The Manhattan Bridge framed by Washington Street, DUMBO
Movies / New York

1992 / CHRISTMAS MANHATTAN

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

A child’s-eye Christmas map of lobbies, toy windows and snow-covered park paths.

Explore the world ↓5 places · Screen & city
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A world beyond the screen

Follow Kevin from the Plaza fantasy into the film’s gentler Central Park heart and final family reunion.

The design moves from hotel red and gilt toward snow, stone and Rockefeller light.

THE COLLECTOR’S CUT / HOTEL / PARK / TREE

A child’s-eye Christmas Manhattan of grand lobbies, secret park paths and impossible independence.

Places in this World
5
Story chapters
3
Location photographs
5

Locations are sequenced as a fan journey, not a plot recap. Songs, scenes and episodes lead the route; changed, private and doubled sites are labelled rather than smoothed into fiction.

01 / The map

Find your way in.

5 public-place or area references. Private properties and unlocated historic sites stay off the map.

Place and area markers · not exact camera positions

Use the public realm and check current venue access before visiting. Residential locations are context, not attractions.

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Selected: The Plaza Hotel
02 / The places

Where it happened.

Read the connection, see what remains, and plan around the real place.

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CULTURAL LOCATION

The Plaza Hotel

Kevin checks himself into the Plaza, turning its lobby mythology into the centre of his independent-city fantasy.

Before you go

Use the public realm and check current venue access before visiting. Residential locations are context, not attractions.

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Gapstow Bridge in Central Park02
CULTURAL LOCATION

Gapstow Bridge

Kevin’s meetings with the Pigeon Lady give the bridge and surrounding park the film’s quieter moral centre.

Before you go

Use the public realm and check current venue access before visiting. Residential locations are context, not attractions.

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Rockefeller Center Christmas tree03
CULTURAL LOCATION

Rockefeller Center

The Christmas tree becomes reunion point, city icon and the visual completion of Kevin’s wish to find his family.

Before you go

Use the public realm and check current venue access before visiting. Residential locations are context, not attractions.

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Carnegie Hall exterior04
CULTURAL LOCATION

Carnegie Hall

The Pigeon Lady’s rooftop refuge is tied to Carnegie Hall geography, though roof and interior work should not be read as open visitor space.

Before you go

Use the public realm and check current venue access before visiting. Residential locations are context, not attractions.

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CULTURAL LOCATION

Battery Park

Kevin’s sightseeing montage carries him to Lower Manhattan, widening the child-sized itinerary beyond Midtown.

Before you go

Use the public realm and check current venue access before visiting. Residential locations are context, not attractions.

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03 / One way through

Lost in New York, found by the tree

A suggested story order, with practical access notes at every stop.

Follow the journey →
  1. 01The Plaza HotelMidtown Manhattan
  2. 02Gapstow BridgeCentral Park
  3. 03Rockefeller CenterMidtown Manhattan
  4. 04Carnegie HallMidtown Manhattan
  5. 05Battery ParkLower Manhattan
Stay in the world

Wake up close to the story.

Places to stay in New York, selected as practical bases for exploring the mapped locations in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.

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The Plaza New York

Midtown Manhattan

A Fifth Avenue landmark beside the Central Park and Midtown chapters. Its neighbourhood overlaps the geography mapped in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.

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Hotel Edison

Theater District

A working Theater District hotel with its own screen history. It is offered as a city base, not as a filming location; check the route to each mapped stop.

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The Hotel Chelsea

Chelsea

A culture-heavy base for downtown music, writing and art worlds. It is offered as a city base, not as a filming location; check the route to each mapped stop.

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A stay is identified as an actual screen, music or cultural location only where the card says so. Always check the route to the places you want to visit, current room terms and accessibility before booking.

Experience it

Step beyond the map.

Bookable activities anchored to this World’s actual places, with live itineraries left to the operator.

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Experience The Plaza Hotel and Midtown Manhattan

Midtown Manhattan

Search bookable experiences around The Plaza Hotel, a mapped place in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. Confirm that the current itinerary includes it before booking.

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Go deeper around Gapstow Bridge

Central Park

Search bookable experiences around Gapstow Bridge, a mapped place in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. Confirm that the current itinerary includes it before booking.

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Marketplace results are not described as official or title-specific tours unless the operator explicitly says so. Confirm the itinerary, meeting point and access before booking.

What’s happening

A reason to stay longer.

Exact title and mapped-place matches come first. A clearly labelled city film or music programme may follow when it helps extend the journey.

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Official venue programme

What’s on at Paris Theater

Midtown

This official programme is surfaced because The Plaza Hotel or its neighbourhood is part of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. It is not presented as a themed event.

Official programme · confirm the current title, date and admissionView programme ↗︎

A shared venue or neighbourhood connects a programme to the map; a city-level programme connects only to the World’s medium. Neither implies a themed event, cast appearance or artist performance. Confirm dates, location, access and tickets with the organiser.

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Take the world home

Watch. Listen. Read. Own.

Exact-title physical editions, records, books, memorabilia and genuinely matched Printed Originals pieces for Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.

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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York on 4K, Blu-ray and DVD

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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York scripts and making-of books

Browse screenplays, making-of books and published histories connected to this World.

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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York memorabilia

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The source notes

Filming locations, live venues, recording history, and lyrical geography are labelled separately. Location photographs are not production stills or exact screen matches.

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