Five people posed close together against a dark backdrop: a woman in a red jumper on the right, a woman in a red-and-black top hat in the centre — For the Peabody Awards, 2018: Rachel Brosnahan (right) and Amy Sherman-Palladino (centre, in the hat) with members of the cast and team. Photo: Peabody Awards. Peabody Awards · CC BY-SA 3.0

Rachel Brosnahan photographed in New York in December 2016 — Rachel Brosnahan in New York, December 2016, a few months before the pilot was released. Photo by Greg2600. Greg2600 · CC BY-SA 2.0

Amy Sherman-Palladino · Amazon · 2017–2023

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

In 1958 Midge found her voice, and so did the Village. Sign the petition

The front of 116 MacDougal Street, with the Up & Up bar and a tattoo studio — 116 MacDougal Street in November 2021: the Up & Up, on the site of the Gaslight Cafe, used for the club’s outside. Photo by DanTD. DanTD · CC BY-SA 4.0

116 MacDougal Street · season one, episode two

Down the stairs.

Midge first takes the Gaslight’s stage in season one, episode two, the night she leaves home after learning of Joel’s affair.
The real Gaslight Cafe opened at 116 MacDougal Street in 1958, run by John Mitchell, and closed in 1971.
Its front, now a bar called the Up & Up, was used for the outside. The inside was built as a set.
It began as a basket house: performers were not paid, and passed a basket round after each set.
Its windows opened onto air shafts. Applause bothered the neighbours, who called the police, so audiences snapped their fingers instead.

The Up & Up, a cocktail bar, is in the space now. The club’s inside was a set, so the room you walk into is not the one on screen.

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Seventh Avenue South · season one, episode three

178 Seventh Avenue South, Greenwich Village

The Village Vanguard

In season one, episode three, Midge does a set here while Lenny Bruce opens for a band.

It opened in 1935 for folk music and poetry, and became a major jazz club in 1957.

It is at 178 Seventh Avenue South.

A working jazz club with sets every night of a run; the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra plays on Monday nights.

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0.7 km

from the Gaslight’s door to the Vanguard’s,, as the crow flies. The Vanguard still runs; the Gaslight’s space is a bar.

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Both clubs and their episodes.
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Season one · two jobs, 2.5 km apart

Day job, night job.

The pale stone Fifth Avenue front of the old B. Altman store — The old B. Altman store on Fifth Avenue in May 2011, now the CUNY Graduate Center. Photo by Beyond My Ken. Beyond My Ken · CC BY-SA 4.0

B. Altman, Fifth Avenue at 34th

The perfume counter, then (in season two) the switchboard room.

Midge works the perfume counter in season one and moves to the switchboard room in season two. The outside, a holiday window scene among them, was filmed at the original building.

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Fifth Avenue · the store in 1914

An old print of a long eight-storey stone department store filling a city block, with carriages on the avenue — B. Altman & Co. from Fifth Avenue in 1914, the year the last section of the store opened. Fur Trade Review, November 1914; public domain. Fur Trade Review, November 1914 · Public domain

365 Fifth Avenue, Fifth to Madison, 34th to 35th Streets

Midge’s counter: B. Altman

The display windows were not part of the real building: the production built them and put them in.

The flagship opened in 1906 and closed at the end of 1989. CUNY’s Graduate Center has been the main tenant since 2000.

It fills a block opposite the Empire State Building. Trowbridge & Livingston designed it, and it opened in stages in 1906, 1911 and 1914.

Now the CUNY Graduate Center. See the store front from Fifth Avenue, opposite the Empire State Building.

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East 18th Street · Joel’s bar

The Old Town’s narrow front on East 18th Street on a sunny winter day — The Old Town on East 18th Street, January 2025. Photo by Jim.henderson. Jim.henderson · CC BY-SA 4.0

East 18th Street, just north of Union Square

Joel’s bar: the Old Town

Joel drinks here night after night while he is seeing Penny.

It is one of the city’s oldest bars, with ornate ceilings and fittings from the nineteenth century.

A working bar and restaurant.

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Washington Square · 1952 to 1959 · season one, episode four

Save the Square.

When Midge speaks at a protest against a road through Washington Square, she is standing in a real fight. Robert Moses had planned to run Fifth Avenue on through the park, and the Village spent seven years stopping him. Sign the petition, one name at a time, and take the road out.

We, the undersigned, say no road through the square.

Five names, five stretches of road. Sign one to start. 0 of 5 signed.

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Moses’s 1952 plan; Hayes, Roosevelt, Lindsay and Jacobs; the 1958 trial and the August 1959 closure; 1.75 acres.
Wikipedia: Washington Square Park
Midge’s protest speech, season one, episode four.
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A black-and-white photograph of a double-decker bus under bare trees, a marble arch and a tall apartment tower behind it — A Fifth Avenue double-decker bus parked in Washington Square, 21 October 1936, the arch and One Fifth Avenue beyond. Berenice Abbott, Changing New York; public domain, New York Public Library. Berenice Abbott (Changing New York; New York Public Library) · Public domain

Sign all five to open the park.

Morningside Heights and Harlem

Uptown.

Home is uptown: the family’s building on Riverside Drive, Abe’s classroom at Columbia, 1.0 km from the Apollo’s stage on 125th Street.

Riverside Drive · a private home

A curving apartment building at 116th Street and Riverside Drive in winter — Riverside Drive at 116th Street, a few blocks north of the Strathmore. The family’s building is a private home and is not shown. Photo by Louis Waweru, public domain. Louis Waweru · Public domain

Riverside Drive, Morningside Heights (a private apartment building)

The family’s building: Riverside Drive

The Strathmore plays the outside of Midge and Joel’s building and her parents’. Midge later moves in with her parents.

It is a twelve-storey building near Columbia, finished in 1909.

Both apartments had seven rooms. A flat that size today would mean joining two units worth more than $8 million.

Private homes. Named by its street only and not pinned; the photograph shows Riverside Drive at 116th Street, not the building.

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Columbia · Room 309

A black-and-white photograph of a large classical brick and limestone university hall with columns — Havemeyer Hall at Columbia University in 1917–18, home of Abe Weissman’s classroom in the series. US National Archives; public domain. Unknown photographer (US National Archives) · Public domain

Columbia University, Broadway at West 116th Street

Abe’s classroom: Havemeyer Hall

Room 309 is Abe’s classroom through season one and part of season two, before he takes a job at Bell Labs.

The same room turns up in the Spider-Man films and in Kinsey.

A working university building. The classrooms are for students.

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125th Street · season three

253 West 125th Street, Harlem

The Apollo Theater

In season three Midge opens for Shy Baldwin here. What she says in her set costs her the tour, which leaves for Paris without her.

The Apollo helped launch careers such as Ella Fitzgerald’s.

The historic theatre is temporarily closed for renovation; the Apollo Experience tour runs by reservation.

The historic theatre is closed for renovation. Tours run on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday, by reservation.

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Apollo Theater

The Apollo Experience tour

253 West 125th Street, Harlem · Mon & Wed 11am and 1pm, Sat 11am · $17

A guided tour from the Apollo while its historic theatre is closed for renovation. By reservation only.

Reserve a tour

A 1978 colour slide of Scott’s resort on Oquaga Lake — Scott’s Oquaga Lake in 1978, filed by John Margolies under Catskills and Borscht Belt. Library of Congress; public domain. John Margolies (Library of Congress, John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive) · Public domain

Oquaga Lake, Deposit, New York · season two

Steiner’s.

Scott’s Family Resort at Oquaga Lake was used for several episodes of season two in 2018. On screen it is Steiner’s Mountain Resort.

Six generations of the Scott family ran it from 1869. It had a ballroom, a bowling alley, two nine-hole golf courses and a 35-seat showboat on nearly 1,000 acres.

Its last season was 2019, its 150th year. Geragos Global bought it from the Scott family in January 2021.

The Playhouse, its central building, collapsed. In November 2023 the owners were still drawing up a master plan.

Closed since 2019, on private land. Nothing to visit; the lake is about three hours’ drive from the city.

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Seventh Avenue at 57th Street · season four, episode eight

After Lenny’s show.

In season four, episode eight, Midge follows Lenny onstage after his show, and decides to stop turning down opening spots.

The hall opened in 1891. The production filmed there for three days while it was closed.

There is a large Breguet clock in the lobby.

A working concert hall. Book a concert to see the inside.

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Carnegie Hall’s brick and terracotta front on a Manhattan corner — Carnegie Hall at Seventh Avenue and 57th Street, July 2011. Photo by Billy Hathorn. Billy Hathorn · CC BY 3.0

The people · during the run, 2016–2018

The people.

For the Peabody Awards, 2018: Rachel Brosnahan (right) and Amy Sherman-Palladino (centre, in the hat) with members of the cast and team. Photo: Peabody Awards. Peabody Awards · CC BY-SA 3.0
Rachel Brosnahan in New York, December 2016, a few months before the pilot was released. Photo by Greg2600. Greg2600 · CC BY-SA 2.0
Amy Sherman-Palladino at the ATX Television Festival in June 2015, two years before Maisel began. Photo by iDominick. iDominick · CC BY-SA 2.0

Amy Sherman-Palladino created the series and made it with Daniel Palladino. The pilot came out on 17 March 2017; the last of its 43 episodes, over 5 seasons, on 26 May 2023. In 2018 it won the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series.

Rachel BrosnahanMiriam “Midge” Maisel
Alex BorsteinSusie Myerson
Tony ShalhoubAbe Weissman
Marin HinkleRose Weissman
Michael ZegenJoel Maisel
Kevin PollakMoishe Maisel
Luke KirbyLenny Bruce

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Creator, producers, dates, seasons, episodes, the 2018 Emmy and the cast.
Wikipedia: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Out on the town.

Where it is now

9 places you can visit: three in Greenwich Village, three from Fifth Avenue to 57th Street, two in Morningside Heights and Harlem, and one lake in the Catskills. The family’s building on Riverside Drive is a private home, named by its street only.

Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.

General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. The Up & Up, a cocktail bar, is in the space now. The club’s inside was a set, so the room you walk into is not the one on screen.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working jazz club with sets every night of a run; the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra plays on Monday nights.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A public park, open all day. Stand under the arch where the buses used to turn.

116 MacDougal Street in November 2021: the Up & Up, on the site of the Gaslight Cafe, used for the club’s outside. Photo by DanTD. DanTD · CC BY-SA 4.0
116 MacDougal Street, Greenwich Village
The Gaslight: 116 MacDougal Street
Midge first takes the Gaslight’s stage in season one, episode two, the night she leaves home after learning of Joel’s affair.
The Up & Up, a cocktail bar, is in the space now. The club’s inside was a set, so the room you walk into is not the one on screen.
Where we read it
The Village Vanguard’s red awning on Seventh Avenue South, July 2020. Photo by Jim.henderson. Jim.henderson · CC BY-SA 4.0
178 Seventh Avenue South, Greenwich Village
The Village Vanguard
In season one, episode three, Midge does a set here while Lenny Bruce opens for a band.
A working jazz club with sets every night of a run; the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra plays on Monday nights.
Where we read it
The Washington Square Arch from Fifth Avenue, January 2013. Photo by Sam McIntosh. Sam McIntosh · CC BY-SA 4.0
Washington Square, at the foot of Fifth Avenue
Washington Square Park
In season one, episode four, Midge speaks at a protest against a highway planned through the park.
A public park, open all day. Stand under the arch where the buses used to turn.
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Stay

On the square.

A 1902 hotel on Washington Square, a walk from MacDougal Street.

Washington Square Hotel

103 Waverly Place, Greenwich Village · Rates for your dates on the hotel’s booking page

A hotel since 1902 at 103 Waverly Place, on the park where Midge makes her protest speech, and a short walk from MacDougal Street. The photograph shows the arch.

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