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Friends Walking Tour
New York

Visit the apartments, theaters, and landmarks that brought Ross, Rachel, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe's New York to life.

9 stops · 4.8 miles

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The Lucille Lortel Theatre

Joey stars in the Off-Broadway play "Boxing Day" here in Season 3, at the theater whose seven-year run of "The Threepenny Opera" helped put Off-Broadway on the map.

The Friends Apartment (Exterior)

Every establishing shot of Monica's building shows this 1899 corner tenement, and the restaurant on its ground floor sits roughly where Central Perk was supposed to be.

Cherry Lane Theatre

Joey stars as Freud in a musical here in Season 1, at New York's oldest continuously running Off-Broadway theater, which began life as an 1817 farm silo.

Phoebe's Apartment

Phoebe's address in the show is a real one, an 1871 tenement where fifteen immigrant families were crowded together by 1880.

Ross Geller's First Apartment

Ross spent his first four-plus seasons in this 1950s modernist complex, which NYU has owned since 1964, long before Ross started lecturing there.

Bloomingdale's (Rachel's Job)

Rachel finally escapes Central Perk for a fashion job here in Season 3, at a store that started out as a small dry-goods shop on Third Avenue in 1872.

The Solow Building (Chandler's Office)

Chandler's office was this sloping 50-story tower, the first major building in New York to swap the usual zoning setbacks for a curved face.

The Pulitzer Fountain

The fountain in the opening credits was on a studio lot in California, but fans hunting for it in New York usually end up at this 1916 fountain outside the Plaza.

The American Museum of Natural History

Ross's museum was fictional, but this is the real New York home of dinosaurs, founded in 1869 and guarded by the world's tallest freestanding dinosaur mount.

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