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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 performs in the play "The Race" here in Season 3, at a theatre that's been a stronghold of the Off-Broadway movement since the 1950s.

The Friends Apartment (Exterior)

This six-story walk-up served as the show's exterior anchor for all ten seasons, a Renaissance Revival tenement building dating back to 1899.

Phoebe's Apartment

Phoebe's apartment sits on one of the West Village's narrowest streets, a real-life haven for artists and musicians throughout the 20th century.

Central Perk (Inspiration)

Central Perk itself was a Los Angeles soundstage; this real café, now called The Little Owl, was the actual ground-floor inspiration.

Ross Geller's Apartment

Ross's apartment sits in a sprawling 1950s "Tower in the Park" housing complex that today is mostly NYU faculty housing, a fitting home for a show character who taught at the university.

The Solow Building (Chandler's Office)

Chandler's job was rarely named on screen, but its establishing shots used this 1974 skyscraper, famous for its dramatic sloped base and stark black-and-white facade.

The Pulitzer Fountain

The show's iconic fountain scene was actually filmed on a California soundstage; this real 1916 fountain, funded by publisher Joseph Pulitzer, is what inspired it.

Bloomingdale's (Rachel's Job)

Rachel lands her first real fashion job here in Season 3, at a flagship store that pioneered the idea of "thematic" department-store retailing after moving to this location in 1886.

The Museum of Natural History

This museum, founded in 1869 and home to one of the largest fossil collections in the world, is the real-world inspiration for the one where Ross Geller worked as a paleontologist.

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