Film Setting and Locations
The film is set largely in the Long Island suburb of Rockville Centre, in Montauk, Long Island, and in New York City.
According to the end credits, it was filmed in and around Brooklyn, Manhattan, Montauk, Mount Vernon, Wainscott, and Yonkers, New York; also Bayonne and West Orange, New Jersey. The Barnes and Noble scenes were filmed at the Columbia University Bookstore. Clementine's house was filmed in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Some of the scenes in Yonkers were filmed along Riverdale Ave and Valentine Ln. Also, the Charles River scene was filmed at FDR State Park in Yorktown, New York. The deleted scene of Joel and Clementine's first "date" to the theater was filmed at the New Victory Theater on 42nd Street in New York.
All of the train scenes were shot aboard a Metro North Train train along the New Haven Line, and the Mount Vernon East train station substituted for the Rockville Centre station.
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