New York · Long Island · shot 2012, released 2013 · Martin Scorsese
A film about selling, and a pen that sells itself. Every place in it was dressed as somewhere else. Click the pen. Sell me this pen
Lower Manhattan to Midtown · 1987
Belfort’s first job on Wall Street is the bottom rung. He climbs from the kerb outside the Stock Exchange to a broker’s desk on Broadway, with a lunch on the way forty-one floors above Fifth Avenue.
Broad Street at Wall Street, Lower Manhattan
Belfort arrives in Manhattan beside the New York Stock Exchange and its huge Stars and Stripes, on his way to his first job.
Scorsese directed the shot of Belfort stepping off a blue-and-white city bus with a “Wall Street” banner.
The exchange fills most of the block between Wall Street, Broad Street, New Street and Exchange Place. Its main building, at 18 Broad Street, was designed by George B. Post.
A working exchange. See the columns and the flag from Broad Street.
120 Broadway, Lower Manhattan
The film puts L.F. Rothschild, Belfort’s first firm, in the Equitable Building. He starts as a licensed broker here just in time for Black Monday in 1987.
The firm’s real address was 666 Fifth Avenue.
Finished in 1915, it was the largest office building in the world by floor area. It has no setbacks, and its bulk helped bring in the city’s first zoning law in 1916.
An office building. See the Broadway front and its arched entrance from the pavement.
Fifth Avenue between 52nd and 53rd Streets (now 660 Fifth Avenue)
Mark Hanna takes Belfort to lunch at Top of the Sixes, on the 41st floor of 666 Fifth Avenue, the block that really housed L.F. Rothschild.
McConaughey’s chest-thumping and humming at the table come from a warm-up he uses as an actor.
Top of the Sixes, designed by Raymond Loewy, closed in 1996. Between 2020 and 2022 the tower’s aluminium skin was replaced with full-height glass.
An office tower; the restaurant at the top has gone. See it from Fifth Avenue.
Lower Manhattan
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The line was not in the script. DiCaprio’s bodyguard, a New York detective, had once been handed a pen in a job interview with the real Belfort and told to sell it; DiCaprio sprang it on the other actors. Scorsese liked it so much he ended the film on it. Talk up the pen and nobody buys. Make the buyer need it, and every sale writes the next place of the rise.
The pen test was not in the script: DiCaprio heard it from his bodyguard, a New York detective who had been given it in an interview with Belfort, and used it without warning the other actors. Scorsese reused it in the final scene.
After prison Belfort hosts sales seminars using the same test; the real Belfort appears at the end as the seminar host.
Sold to
He holds out a ballpoint. Sell it to him. The nib is in.
No sold · 0 pitches wasted
Austin Street at 63rd Drive, Rego Park, Queens
Not sold yet.
701 Saw Mill River Road, Ardsley
Not sold yet.
500 Mamaroneck Avenue, Harrison
Not sold yet.
1979 Marcus Avenue, Lake Success
Not sold yet.
Hoffstot Lane, Sands Point
Not sold yet.
Chestnut Hill Drive, off Chicken Valley Road
Not sold yet.
The film’s address, and the real one
The film tells Belfort’s story in the right city and the wrong buildings. Switch each to where it really was.
All four show the film’s address.
L.F. Rothschild
120 Broadway, Lower Manhattan
The film puts L.F. Rothschild, Belfort’s first firm, in the Equitable Building. He starts as a licensed broker here just in time for Black Monday in 1987.
Stratton Oakmont
500 Mamaroneck Avenue, Harrison
The gleaming glass office of Stratton Oakmont, the firm’s third and grandest headquarters in the film, is 500 Mamaroneck Avenue in Harrison.
The beach house
Hoffstot Lane, Sands Point
The beach house where Belfort meets Naomi at a party is on Hoffstot Lane, on the north shore of Sands Point.
The house
Chestnut Hill Drive, off Chicken Valley Road
The film’s house, where a helicopter comes down on the lawn in the opening, is a mock-Tudor estate on Chestnut Hill Drive, off Chicken Valley Road towards Oyster Bay.
Brooklyn Navy Yard
The Naomi goes down in a storm on the way to Monaco. The waves were made in the car park of Steiner Studios in Brooklyn, and the deck was a set in Queens.
The yacht’s upper deck was built on a soundstage at Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens.
Steiner opened in November 2004. With 30 soundstages it is the largest studio complex in the United States outside Hollywood.
A working film studio inside the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The stages are closed to visitors.
Brookfield Place, Battery Park City
FBI agent Patrick Denham visits Belfort on his yacht, the Naomi, moored here. The boat was really the Lady M.
Built in 1989, the harbour takes yachts of 80 to 150 feet and is part of Brookfield Place.
Walk round the harbour in front of Brookfield Place.
Park Avenue to the Hudson
A proposal in the Four Seasons’ Pool Room, a wedding on Long Island Sound dressed as the tropics, a quiet dinner in East Harlem with a private eye, and an arrest on a heliport in the middle of a sales pitch.
99 East 52nd Street, at Park Avenue
Belfort proposes to Naomi in the Pool Room of the old Four Seasons restaurant.
Philip Johnson designed the rooms. The Four Seasons opened in 1959 and became known for its power lunches.
The granite plaza on Park Avenue is open to all. The Pool Room is a restaurant again, the Pool, with its own door on 52nd Street.
333 Bayville Avenue, Bayville
The beach wedding, which the film sets in the Caribbean, was shot at the Crescent Beach Club in Bayville.
The club is a wedding and private-events venue with a seasonal restaurant, Ocean, open to everyday visitors.
A wedding and events venue on Long Island Sound. Its seasonal restaurant, Ocean, is open to everyone.
455 East 114th Street, East Harlem
Belfort meets his private investigator, Bo Dietl, at Rao’s to talk about the investigation into Stratton Oakmont. Dietl plays himself.
Rao’s was founded in 1896. The New York Post calls it one of the hardest places to get into in the city.
A working restaurant on the corner of Pleasant Avenue. Getting a table is famously hard.
West 30th Street at 12th Avenue, by the Hudson
Belfort is arrested here in the middle of recording a TV advert for his Straight Line course.
The Port of New York Authority built the heliport in 1956. Sightseeing flights were moved away from it after a court agreement over Hudson River Park.
A working heliport. See it from the Hudson River Greenway at West 30th Street.
Battery Park City, Manhattan
An all-suite hotel at 102 North End Avenue in Battery Park City: 463 suites averaging more than 430 square feet, and a green roof looking over the harbour. North Cove, where the Naomi was moored, is a short walk south.
See the hotelThe people · 2013
Around them are Matthew McConaughey as Mark Hanna, Kyle Chandler as Agent Patrick Denham, Rob Reiner as Max Belfort, Jon Bernthal as Brad, Jon Favreau as Manny Riskin and Joanna Lumley as Aunt Emma. Terence Winter adapted Belfort’s 2007 memoir; Rodrigo Prieto shot it, mostly on film, with the night and green-screen scenes on a digital Alexa; Thelma Schoonmaker cut it.
Cast, writer, cinematographer, editor, the memoir, shooting from 8 August 2012, film and Alexa, the $100 million budget, 400 to 450 effects shots and five Oscar nominations; the premiere at the Ziegfeld on 17 December 2013.
13 places you can visit, in New York City, Westchester and on Long Island. The beach house in Sands Point and the Belfort house off Chicken Valley Road are private homes: named here, not on the map.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
General reference · Restricted access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working exchange. See the columns and the flag from Broad Street.
General reference · Restricted access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. An office building. See the Broadway front and its arched entrance from the pavement.
General reference · Restricted access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. An office tower; the restaurant at the top has gone. See it from Fifth Avenue.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. The granite plaza on Park Avenue is open to all. The Pool Room is a restaurant again, the Pool, with its own door on 52nd Street.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working restaurant on the corner of Pleasant Avenue. Getting a table is famously hard.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Walk round the harbour in front of Brookfield Place.
General reference · Restricted access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working heliport. See it from the Hudson River Greenway at West 30th Street.
General reference · Restricted access · Coordinate precision: site · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working film studio inside the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The stages are closed to visitors.
Broad Street at Wall Street, Lower Manhattan
Belfort arrives in Manhattan beside the New York Stock Exchange and its huge Stars and Stripes, on his way to his first job.
A working exchange. See the columns and the flag from Broad Street.
120 Broadway, Lower Manhattan
The film puts L.F. Rothschild, Belfort’s first firm, in the Equitable Building. He starts as a licensed broker here just in time for Black Monday in 1987.
An office building. See the Broadway front and its arched entrance from the pavement.
Fifth Avenue between 52nd and 53rd Streets (now 660 Fifth Avenue)
Mark Hanna takes Belfort to lunch at Top of the Sixes, on the 41st floor of 666 Fifth Avenue, the block that really housed L.F. Rothschild.
An office tower; the restaurant at the top has gone. See it from Fifth Avenue.
99 East 52nd Street, at Park Avenue
Belfort proposes to Naomi in the Pool Room of the old Four Seasons restaurant.
The granite plaza on Park Avenue is open to all. The Pool Room is a restaurant again, the Pool, with its own door on 52nd Street.
455 East 114th Street, East Harlem
Belfort meets his private investigator, Bo Dietl, at Rao’s to talk about the investigation into Stratton Oakmont. Dietl plays himself.
A working restaurant on the corner of Pleasant Avenue. Getting a table is famously hard.
Brookfield Place, Battery Park City
FBI agent Patrick Denham visits Belfort on his yacht, the Naomi, moored here. The boat was really the Lady M.
Walk round the harbour in front of Brookfield Place.
West 30th Street at 12th Avenue, by the Hudson
Belfort is arrested here in the middle of recording a TV advert for his Straight Line course.
A working heliport. See it from the Hudson River Greenway at West 30th Street.
Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn
The film’s credits say it was shot partly at Steiner Studios.
A working film studio inside the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The stages are closed to visitors.
Stay
An all-suite hotel a short walk from North Cove.
Battery Park City, Manhattan
An all-suite hotel at 102 North End Avenue in Battery Park City: 463 suites averaging more than 430 square feet, and a green roof looking over the harbour. North Cove, where the Naomi was moored, is a short walk south.
See the hotelGo there
Walking tours past the Exchange, and tours of the Gold Coast mansions on Long Island.
Lower Manhattan
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A guided walk at Sands Point Preserve, the public estate beside the beach house’s street.
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Take it home
Belfort’s memoir and the soundtrack. No original poster for this film is in our store yet.
Jordan Belfort · Bantam
Belfort’s own account, first published in 2007; this is the 2008 Bantam paperback. The film is adapted from it.
Find the bookVarious artists · Virgin Records, 2013
The songs from the film, released on 17 December 2013, the day of the New York premiere.
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15 of 15 places · 15 of 15 Moments
Broad Street at Wall Street, Lower Manhattan
Belfort steps off a bus beside the Stock Exchange on his way to his first job.
120 Broadway, Lower Manhattan
His first job as a licensed broker, in time for Black Monday.
Fifth Avenue between 52nd and 53rd Streets (now 660 Fifth Avenue)
Mark Hanna takes the new boy to lunch on the 41st floor.
99 East 52nd Street, at Park Avenue
Belfort proposes to Naomi in the Pool Room.
455 East 114th Street, East Harlem
Belfort meets his private investigator at Rao’s.
Brookfield Place, Battery Park City
The FBI comes aboard the Naomi.
West 30th Street at 12th Avenue, by the Hudson
Belfort is arrested while recording a TV advert.
Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn
The storm that sinks the Naomi, filmed in a Brooklyn car park.
Austin Street at 63rd Drive, Rego Park, Queens
Donnie Azoff introduces himself in “Kacandes Diner”.
701 Saw Mill River Road, Ardsley
The firm starts in “Frank’s Best Auto Body”.
500 Mamaroneck Avenue, Harrison
Stratton Oakmont moves into its grandest office.
1979 Marcus Avenue, Lake Success
Where Stratton Oakmont really was, on Long Island.
Hoffstot Lane, Sands Point
Belfort meets Naomi at a party at a beach house.
Chestnut Hill Drive, off Chicken Valley Road
The mansion with a helicopter on its lawn.
333 Bayville Avenue, Bayville
A beach wedding, set in the Caribbean, shot on Long Island Sound.
