Hotel Edison is a historic Art Deco hotel at 228 West 47th Street in Midtown Manhattan, just off Times Square. Opened in 1931 and designed by Herbert J. Krapp, it is one of the classic theatre-district hotels in New York and is closely tied to Broadway through its location and long history.
Hotel Edison appears in The Godfather (1972), Seinfeld (1989–1998), Bullets over Broadway (1994), and Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014). Of these, The Godfather (1972) is the production most closely associated with the hotel.
In The Godfather (1972), Hotel Edison is used in the sequence leading up to Luca Brasi’s murder. The hotel appears in the hallway walking scene before he enters the restaurant to meet Sollozzo and is killed.
In Seinfeld (1989–1998), Hotel Edison appears in the episode “The Subway” (1992). The hotel is used for the exterior establishing shot of the place where George is lured by a woman he meets on the subway, only to be handcuffed to a bed and robbed.
In Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), the hotel’s Rum House bar is used for one of the film’s key New York bar scenes. It is the setting where Riggan Thomson meets theatre critic Tabitha Dickinson.
In Bullets over Broadway (1994), Hotel Edison is used for the penthouse setting in the film. This gives the hotel a more direct dramatic role than a simple exterior appearance.
Seinfeld
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