![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Frank’s Best Auto Body’, the rundown property they hire to launch their new company is the old Ardsley Fire Department building standing at 701 Saw Mill River Road, between Ashford Avenue and Center Street, Ardsley, up towards White Plains in New York State. It’s the Shalimar Diner, 6368 Austin Street at 63rd Drive, Rego Park, near Forest Hills in Queens (that’s only about mile north of Aunt May’s house in Spider-Man). It’s called ‘Kacandes Diner’ in the film, but that’s a bit of an in-joke (longtime Scorsese collaborator Georgia Kacandes is the film’s Production Manager). His dubious methods bring results and soon he’s approached by Donnie Azoff ( Jonah Hill) in a local diner, who’s keen to hitch himself to the rising star. Unfazed, he takes his skills to a tiny company selling penny shares. He moves up to his first job as a licensed broker at the Equitable Building, 120 Broadway, just in time for 1987’s catastrophic Black Monday and immediate joblessness. The Wolf Of Wall Street location: Belfort gets his first job as a licensed broker: Equitable Building, Broadway, New York | Photograph: wikimedia / Beyond My Ken Despite what some online maps seem to show, it’s east of the northern end of Chestnut Hill Drive.įlashing back to Belfort’s beginnings, he’s seen arriving in the city, alongside the New York Stock Exchange with its vast Stars and Stripes on Nassau Street (actually just off Wall Street), to take up his first ‘pond scum’ job with LF Rothschild.Įager but naïve, Belfort’s potential is nevertheless spotted by chest-beating alpha-boss Mark Hanna ( Matthew McConaughey), who takes him for an eye-opener of a liquid lunch at Top Of The Sixes, 666 Fifth Avenue, the block which did in fact house the Rothschild banking business. The film hits the ground running, almost literally, as the whacked-out Belfort ( Leonardo DiCaprio) at the height of his drug fuelled success, attempts to land a helicopter in the grounds of his Long Island home.Īt the time, Belfort’s house was 5 Pin Oak Court, off Chicken Valley Road in Old Brookville near to Glen Cove, but the film uses a more screen friendly mock-Tudor estate at 39 Chestnut Hill Drive, still off the bucolic-sounding Chicken Valley Road but a little to the east towards Oyster Bay. ![]() Just as with Goodfellas, some critics got upset that Martin Scorsese’s energetic account of the so-unlikely-that-it-must-be-true career of money-magnet Jordan Belfort doesn’t wind up with a finger-wagging homily on just desserts. The Wolf Of Wall Street location: Jordan Belfort arrives in Manhattan: New York Stock Exchange, Nassau Street, New York ![]()
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