Jennifer Lopez in Miami before the MTV Video Music Awards, 29 August 2004. US Coast Guard photograph. PA2 Anastasia Burns, US Coast Guard · Public domain
Jennifer Lopez at the Toronto premiere of Hustlers, 7 September 2019. John Bauld · CC BY 2.0
The Super Bowl LIV halftime show at Hard Rock Stadium, seen from the stands, 2 February 2020. elisfkc2 · CC BY-SA 2.0
The view from the 6 train platform at Castle Hill Avenue, the Bronx, August 2021. Kidfly182 · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Versace silk dress Jennifer Lopez wore at the 2000 Grammys, on show at the Museum at FIT, New York, November 2025. Rhododendrites · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Castle Hill · Throggs Neck · Sunset Boulevard · 1969–1993
From the block
The view from the 6 train platform at Castle Hill Avenue, the Bronx, August 2021. Kidfly182 · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Bronx · 1969
Castle Hill and the 6
Jennifer Lopez was born in the Bronx on 24 July 1969 and grew up in Castle Hill; her parents were both born in Puerto Rico.
She was the middle of three sisters, who shared a bed, in a strict Catholic house that went to Mass every Sunday.
She learned flamenco, jazz and ballet at the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club, and taught dance to younger children there, Kerry Washington among them.
Her first album, On the 6 (1999), is named for the subway line she rode between home in the Bronx and work in Manhattan. Its first single, If You Had My Love, spent five weeks at No. 1 in the United States.
Take the 6 train to Castle Hill Avenue and walk south into the neighbourhood. The family home is private, so we name the area, not the house.
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Bronx tours
The Bronx, New York
Live marketplace results for guided tours of the Bronx. Most stay in the south and west of the borough, so check whether one reaches Castle Hill.
The front entrance of Preston High School, Throggs Neck, the Bronx, April 2016. Sadia Romain · CC BY-SA 4.0
Throggs Neck · 1987
Preston
After Holy Family School she went to Preston, a private Catholic school for girls.
She ran track at national level, did gymnastics, played softball and took a lead role in a school Godspell.
The school lists her as an alumna of 1987; her younger sister Lynda followed in 1989. Preston was founded in 1947 by the Sisters of the Divine Compassion; its first building was Collis P. Huntington’s waterfront mansion.
A working girls’ school with no visits: see the entrance from Schurz Avenue, by the water in Throggs Neck.
SourcesMetromedia Square from above in 1994, the year In Living Color ended. US Geological Survey aerial photograph. US Geological Survey · Public domain
Stage 7 · 1991–1993
Fly Girl
Rosie Perez, the show’s choreographer, chose Lopez as a Fly Girl, and she moved to Los Angeles in late 1991 for the job.
In Living Color was taped on stage 7 at Metromedia Square on Sunset Boulevard. She taped the show by day and went to Aaron Speiser’s acting classes at night.
After two seasons she left to dance for Janet Jackson, and turned down Jackson’s 1993 world tour to act.
Metromedia sold the land to the Los Angeles Unified School District in 2000; the Starsteps sculpture on the roof was taken down and shipped to Chicago.
The studios have gone from this corner; see it from the pavement at Sunset and Van Ness. The photograph is the 1994 aerial view.
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Selena · 1996
Two domes
21,000 auditioned
35,000 in the seats
The Alamodome: where the film shot that night, with 35,000 people.
The concert that opens the film was shot here on 15 September 1996, in front of 35,000 people who came in answer to newspaper advertisements.
More than 21,000 people auditioned for Selena at casting calls held from 16 to 23 March 1996. Lopez sang, danced and played the elopement scene for the crew and for Selena’s father, and spent time with the family in Corpus Christi.
It was the first time she had performed for a crowd that size; Selena’s own recorded voice was dubbed over her singing. She was the first Latina actress to be paid $1 million for a film.
The Alamodome opened on 15 May 1993 and seats 64,000.
A domed stadium on the edge of downtown San Antonio: go in with a ticket for a UTSA football game, a concert or a show.
Sources
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San Antonio tours
San Antonio, Texas
Live marketplace results for San Antonio city tours. The Alamodome is on the south-east edge of downtown.
Pictures of her were downloaded 642,917 times from the Grammy website in the next 24 hours.
The 42nd Grammy Awards were held at the Staples Center on 23 February 2000, four months after it opened. Lopez arrived with Sean Combs in a green silk chiffon Versace gown printed with leaves and bamboo, designed by Donatella Versace. She presented Best R&B Album with David Duchovny.
In 2015 Google’s Eric Schmidt said it had been the most popular search they had ever seen, and that answering it was why Google built image search.
Versace gave a copy to the Fashion Museum in Bath as its Dress of the Year for 2000; another went to the Grammy Museum.
Home of the Lakers and the Kings: go in with a ticket for a game or a concert. The Grammy Museum is round the corner on Olympic Boulevard.
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Grammy Museum
Grammy Museum
800 West Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles · Adults $22.50 · under 18 free
The museum at L.A. Live, round the corner from the arena of the 2000 Grammys. Open 11am to 5pm Thursday to Monday (to 6pm on Saturdays); closed Tuesday and Wednesday.
Crypto.com Arena, once Staples Center, in downtown Los Angeles, November 2023. Troutfarm27 · CC BY-SA 4.0The Versace silk dress Jennifer Lopez wore at the 2000 Grammys, on show at the Museum at FIT, New York, November 2025. Rhododendrites · CC BY-SA 4.0
2002 – 2020
Then and after
421 West 54th Street, the Hit Factory building, now apartments, October 2023. Jim.henderson · CC BY 4.0
2002
This Is Me… Then
The Hit Factory
A New York Times reporter watched Lopez at the Hit Factory in 2002, finishing This Is Me… Then.
The same account has her at an album photo shoot at Chelsea Piers that day.
Its first single, Jenny from the Block, reached No. 3 and was heard as her reply to talk that she had left her first fans behind; All I Have went to No. 1.
Francis Lawrence’s video for it, with Ben Affleck, was shot as if by paparazzi and security cameras.
The Hit Factory bought 421 West 54th Street in 1991 and closed its headquarters there in 2005.
An engineer at the desk at the Hit Factory in New York in August 2002; the photographer titled it as the Jenny from the Block sessions. MixYourHit · CC BY-SA 3.0
A street in Hell’s Kitchen; the studios have gone and the 2002 room is not identified, so the street is marked, not a door.
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Planet Hollywood on the Las Vegas Strip at night, January 2009. Ken Lund · CC BY-SA 2.0
20 January 2016
All I Have
Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas
Her Las Vegas residency, All I Have, opened at the AXIS at Planet Hollywood on 20 January 2016, with Ja Rule, Ne-Yo and Pitbull as guests.
The resort was the Aladdin until 2007; Caesars runs it, with about 2,500 rooms and a 7,000-seat theatre.
Caesars Entertainment
Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino
3667 South Las Vegas Boulevard · See the site
The resort on the Strip where All I Have opened in 2016: about 2,500 rooms, and a 7,000-seat theatre.
A casino resort on the Strip, open round the clock; its theatre needs a show ticket.
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An entrance to the Palisades Center, West Nyack, September 2007. Luigi Novi · CC BY 4.0
March–May 2019
Hustlers
Palisades Center
Hustlers was shot in New York City in 29 days, from 22 March to 3 May 2019, with scenes in New Rochelle, White Plains and here at the Palisades Center.
Lopez produced it through Nuyorican Productions; the writer-director Lorene Scafaria had wanted her for Ramona from the start.
It opened at the Toronto International Film Festival on 7 September 2019, and Lopez was nominated at the Golden Globes, the Critics Choice and the SAG Awards.
The mall opened in March 1998 and is named for the Palisades along the Hudson.
Jennifer Lopez at the Toronto premiere of Hustlers, 7 September 2019. John Bauld · CC BY 2.0
A large mall in Rockland County, off the New York State Thruway at exit 12, open to all.
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Hard Rock Stadium, Miami Gardens, August 2017. A.J. Lipp · CC BY-SA 4.0
2 February 2020
Halftime
Hard Rock Stadium
On 2 February 2020 Lopez and Shakira co-headlined the Super Bowl LIV halftime show here, with Bad Bunny, J Balvin and Lopez’s daughter Emme.
Lopez began on top of a pole built like the Empire State Building and opened with Jenny from the Block.
About 130 dancers worked her half; Emme sang Let’s Get Loud with her in front of an all-female choir.
103 million people watched in the United States, slightly more than watched the game.
The stadium has hosted six Super Bowls.
The Super Bowl LIV halftime show at Hard Rock Stadium, seen from the stands, 2 February 2020. elisfkc2 · CC BY-SA 2.0
Home of the Miami Dolphins and the Hurricanes: go in with a ticket for a game, a concert or the Miami Open.
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Where it is now
All results: 10 places.
Castle Hill and Preston are a short ride apart in the east Bronx, and the 6 runs from Castle Hill into Manhattan. Los Angeles, Texas, Las Vegas and Miami are trips of their own.
Where it is now
10 places, from the east Bronx to Miami Gardens. The Fly Girls’ studios on Sunset have gone, and the Astrodome is shut.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: area · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Take the 6 train to Castle Hill Avenue and walk south into the neighbourhood. The family home is private, so we name the area, not the house.
General reference · Restricted access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working girls’ school with no visits: see the entrance from Schurz Avenue, by the water in Throggs Neck.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: area · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A street in Hell’s Kitchen; the studios have gone and the 2002 room is not identified, so the street is marked, not a door.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A large mall in Rockland County, off the New York State Thruway at exit 12, open to all.
1The view from the 6 train platform at Castle Hill Avenue, the Bronx, August 2021. Kidfly182 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Castle Hill Avenue station, Westchester Avenue, the Bronx (the family home is private and not marked)
Castle Hill and the 6
Jennifer Lopez was born in the Bronx on 24 July 1969 and grew up in Castle Hill; her parents were both born in Puerto Rico.
Take the 6 train to Castle Hill Avenue and walk south into the neighbourhood. The family home is private, so we name the area, not the house.
Sources
2The front entrance of Preston High School, Throggs Neck, the Bronx, April 2016. Sadia Romain · CC BY-SA 4.0
2780 Schurz Avenue, Throggs Neck, the Bronx
Preston High School
After Holy Family School she went to Preston, a private Catholic school for girls.
A working girls’ school with no visits: see the entrance from Schurz Avenue, by the water in Throggs Neck.
Sources
3421 West 54th Street, the Hit Factory building, now apartments, October 2023. Jim.henderson · CC BY 4.0
West 54th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan (the studios here closed in 2005)
The Hit Factory
A New York Times reporter watched Lopez at the Hit Factory in 2002, finishing This Is Me… Then.
A street in Hell’s Kitchen; the studios have gone and the 2002 room is not identified, so the street is marked, not a door.
Sources
4An entrance to the Palisades Center, West Nyack, September 2007. Luigi Novi · CC BY 4.0
1000 Palisades Center Drive, West Nyack, New York
Palisades Center
Hustlers was shot in New York City in 29 days, from 22 March to 3 May 2019, with scenes in New Rochelle, White Plains and here at the Palisades Center.
A large mall in Rockland County, off the New York State Thruway at exit 12, open to all.
Sources
Stay
A room on the Strip.
The resort where her Las Vegas residency opened.
Caesars Entertainment
Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino
3667 South Las Vegas Boulevard · See the site
The resort on the Strip where All I Have opened in 2016: about 2,500 rooms, and a 7,000-seat theatre.
The Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, and tours of the Bronx and San Antonio.
Grammy Museum
Grammy Museum
800 West Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles · Adults $22.50 · under 18 free
The museum at L.A. Live, round the corner from the arena of the 2000 Grammys. Open 11am to 5pm Thursday to Monday (to 6pm on Saturdays); closed Tuesday and Wednesday.
Dates, prices, rooms and stock change: confirm with the provider before you travel or buy. A stay or tour is described as a filming location only where the card says so.
The full record
Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.
10 of 10 places · 14 of 14 Moments
Castle Hill and the 6
Castle Hill Avenue station, Westchester Avenue, the Bronx (the family home is private and not marked)
Castle Hill
Jennifer Lopez is born in the Bronx and grows up in Castle Hill.
Kips Bay
Flamenco, jazz and ballet at the Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club.
On the 6
Her first album is named for the subway line from the Bronx to Manhattan.
Preston High School
2780 Schurz Avenue, Throggs Neck, the Bronx
Preston
Track, softball and Godspell at an all-girls Catholic school; she graduates in 1987.
Metromedia Square
5746 Sunset Boulevard at Van Ness Avenue, Hollywood (sold in 2000)
Fly Girl
Rosie Perez picks her as a Fly Girl; she moves to Los Angeles and tapes In Living Color by day.
The Alamodome
100 Montana Street, San Antonio, Texas
21,000 auditions
Over 21,000 people try for Selena; Lopez gets it after singing, dancing and the elopement scene.
35,000 in the dome
The film’s opening concert is shot at the Alamodome in front of 35,000 people.
The Astrodome
NRG Park, Houston, Texas (closed to the public)
The Astrodome, staged
Selena’s real 1995 Astrodome concert is the night the film recreates.
Staples Center (Crypto.com Arena)
1111 South Figueroa Street, downtown Los Angeles
The Grammys
She presents at the 42nd Grammys in the green Versace gown.
The search
So many people search for the picture that Google builds image search, Eric Schmidt later says.
The Hit Factory
West 54th Street, Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan (the studios here closed in 2005)
This Is Me… Then
She finishes her third album at the Hit Factory and shoots its pictures at Chelsea Piers.
Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas
3667 South Las Vegas Boulevard, Las Vegas, Nevada
All I Have
Her Las Vegas residency opens at Planet Hollywood.
Hard Rock Stadium
347 Don Shula Drive, Miami Gardens, Florida
Halftime
Lopez and Shakira co-headline the Super Bowl LIV halftime show.
Palisades Center
1000 Palisades Center Drive, West Nyack, New York
Hustlers
Twenty-nine days of filming in and around New York, the Palisades Center included.
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