Breakfast at Tiffany's Walking Tour New York

Capote's New York

Truman Capote worked nearby as a New Yorker copy boy before being fired the following year, reportedly after offending the poet Robert Frost at a staff event.

A Real Bar

When Breakfast at Tiffany's was filmed in 1960, Blake Edwards shot several sequences here on location rather than on the Paramount lot, giving the film its texture.

Nothing Bad Could Happen Here

The film's wordless opening, Audrey Hepburn gazing into this window in her black Givenchy dress with a Danish and coffee, was shot here in under an hour on a Sunday morning in 1960, before the city woke up.

The Edge of the Park

In the film, this stretch of Fifth Avenue represents the apex of Holly's aspirations, Tiffany's behind her and the Plaza and the park just ahead.

The Apartment

Holly climbs out this fire escape, the same one still here today, to avoid unwanted company in several scenes, though the apartment inside was actually a Paramount soundstage set.

The Park

Model boats have raced across this basin since the 1880s, and in the film it's where Holly and narrator Paul Varjak walk and talk, the one place in the story where neither of them is performing.

The Upper East Side

Truman Capote drank for decades at Bemelmans Bar inside this hotel, its walls painted in 1947 by Ludwig Bemelmans in exchange for room and board, in the exact Upper East Side social world Holly spends the novella reaching toward.

Breakfast at Tiffany's Walking Tour
New York

Every Stop Has a Story

Capote's New York

A Real Bar

Nothing Bad Could Happen Here

The Edge of the Park

The Apartment

The Park

The Upper East Side

Ready to live the story?

Breakfast at Tiffany's Walking TourNew York

Every Stop Has a Story

Capote's New York

A Real Bar

Nothing Bad Could Happen Here

The Edge of the Park

The Apartment

The Park

The Upper East Side

Ready to live the story?

Breakfast at Tiffany's Walking Tour
New York