Where was The Irishman filmed? Guide to all the Filming Locations (2025)

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The 3 1/2 hours long movie The Irishman by Martin Scorsese (the director behind classics like Taxi Driver and Goodfellas), is an adaptation of Charles Brandt's book I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran and Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa.

The production does not fall short of filming locations: filmmakers claim that 117 different locations were used to film 309 scenes. Set in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, and Florida, The Irishman was primarily filmed in and around New York.


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The film tells the story (spanning more than 50 years, from 1949 through 2000) of hitman Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), who claims to have been involved in the 1975 disappearance of Teamsters labor union chief Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino), one of America's most powerful men.

The movie contains a pantheon of celebrities including Joe Pesci (Russell Bufalino), Harvey Keitel (Angelo Bruno), Ray Romano (Bill Bufalino), Bobby Cannavale (Felix "Skinny Razor" DiTullio), and Anna Paquin as Peggy Sheeran.

Welcome to our spoiler-free guide to all the filming locations of The Irishman.


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The area around St. Matthias Catholic Church in Ridgewood (Queens) was dressed to host the filming of several scenes set in Philadelphia.

The baptism was filmed in this church. The exteriors of the restaurant Villa di Roma (the interiors were built on a soundstage), the Friendly Lounge, and the sequence when Frank beats up a grocery store owner are all located all here.

The image pictured below from Google Maps shows filmmaking equipment during the filming in 2017 when the neighborhood was sent back in time.

(You can open all the locations on Google Maps by clicking on the links below in the captions ↴)
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The Stuckey's and Texaco service area where Sheeran met Bufalino in the 1950s is near the Great Hunger Memorial in Elmsford, NY.

The opening scene in a hospital is the Summit Park Hospital and Nurse Care center in Pomona.
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Also, a lot of scenes were filmed in Suffern. The Art Deco Lafayette Theater, several shops (Penn Drape and Curtains), and da Nina Italian Restaurant in Lafayette Avenue are some of the locations used in the town, as lohud.com reported.
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The restaurant pictured was shot at the old GoodFellas Diner at 5626 Maspeth Avenue in Maspeth (now permanently closed).
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The real Weir's Ice Cream is located at 2159 NY-94, Salisbury Mills.

The bowling alley is the Van Nest Lanes in the Bronx.
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According to Untapped Cities, the scene when Jimmy Hoffa testifies to Congress was filmed in the Bronx County Civil Court lobby.

The sequence when Frank goes to Chicago and helps sink a fleet of taxis was filmed in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and the bomb in a lot of cabs was shot beside the Brooklyn Queens Expressway in the Gowanus/Carroll Gardens area.

The scrap metal yard is Ralph's Motor Repairs in Washingtonville and the quarry was filmed at Callahan-Nannini Shale in Blooming Grove.
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The International Brotherhood of Teamsters building was set at Hempstead Town Hall.

The English Hemel Hempstead village near London doubled as Tambury in Ricky Gervais's hit series After Life.
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The scene taking place at Umberto’s Clam House was set in a clothing store Scotch and Soda at 90 Orchard Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

The storefront of the Andrea Doria Social Club was set at 268 Smith in Brooklyn.
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Lum's restaurant is the Orange Top Diner in Tuxedo Park.

The Howard Johnson’s hotel was filmed in an old HoJo’s that the crew found in Long Island’s Jericho Turnpike.

Up to seven actors from The Irishman appear also in the movie starring Hugh Jackman Bad Education.
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A car explosion was set outside Lee's Tavern (converted into a barbershop) in Dongan Hills.
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According to Architectural Digest, the Latin Casino Theater Restaurant in Philadelphia was built on a set at the Harlem Alhambra Ballroom in New York.

Hoffa’s Michigan lake house is a 1962 home in Putnam Valley.

The airport scenes were filmed at the old control tower at the Republic Airport in Farmingdale, NY.
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The Knollwood Mausoleum was filmed at Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx.

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Newsday reported 10 locations being filmed in Long Island, including the Rodeway Inn Huntington Station - Melville, private houses in Great Neck and Atlantic Beach, the Harry Tappen Marina in Hempstead Harbor, and Hildebrandt's ice cream parlor in Williston Park.

The interior of the scene in Miami's Deauville Hotel (pictured), were shot at Leonard's Palazzo.
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