CENTRAL PARK

North-South boundary: 59th St. to 110th St.
East-West boundary: Fifth Ave. to Central Park W.

FEATURED EPISODES

Seasons: One • Two • Three • Four • Five • Six • Seven • Eight • Nine

Central Park
New York, NEW YORK (map)
“The Pony Remark”
Uncle Leo mentions to Jerry that cousin Jeffrey is getting a citation from the New York Parks Department for his Central Park walking tours.

Central Park
New York, NEW YORK (map)
“The Bet”
In the first draft of the abandoned script, Elaine argues against Jerry’s positive outlook on society in regards to getting a gun by proclaiming “why don’t you get a basket of posies, sow the seed of love in Central Park about 1 A.M. and see what kind of solutions you get!”.

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Central Park
New York, NEW YORK (map)
“The Opera”
Crazy Joe Davola is walking through the park on his way to The Town Hall, when he’s accosted by a group of punks, that he beats up mercilessly.

Central Park
New York, NEW YORK (map)
“The Pilot”
Kramer sprints through the park, desperately looking for a bathroom.

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Central Park
New York, NEW YORK (map)
“The Puffy Shirt”
George is seen running through the park towards NBC, celebrating his new job as hand model, and his date with a photographer’s assistant.

Central Park Great Lawn
New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 81st Street – Museum Of Natural History (B,C)
“The Glasses”
Jerry surprises Amy with tickets to a Paul Simon concert in the park from Jeffrey.

Central Park
New York, NEW YORK (map)
“The Conversion”
Kramer is seen running through the park on his way to stop Sister Roberta’s final vows.

Central Park
New York, NEW YORK (map)
“The Wife”
Elaine mentions to Greg that this is her first workout since the Central Park mini-marathon…she didn’t do the marathon, she just happened to exercise that day.

Central Park
New York, NEW YORK (map)
“The Raincoats”
George sees Morty & Helen pass on a hansom cab with Aaron & Elaine while in the park.

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Central Park
New York, NEW YORK (map)
“The Soup”
George and Kelly walk through the park, where George describes his love of the word “manure”…and Kelly reveals she may have a “watch freak” boyfriend.

Central Park 72nd Street Gate
W. 72nd St. and Central Park W., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 72nd Street (B,C)
“The Kiss Hello”
Wendy drops off Elaine and her skis 3 blocks short of her apartment, claiming she didn’t want to have to drive around Central Park West and go back west to Columbus Ave…all this after driving Elaine 120 miles from skiing.

Central Park Zoo
830 Fifth Ave., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: Fifth Avenue – 59th Street (N,Q,R)
“The Face Painter”
Kramer is scheduled for a behind-the-scenes tour of the zoo from George’s girlfriend Siena, but gets into a fight with Barry the monkey beforehand, throwing a banana peel back at him.

Central Park
New York, NEW YORK (map)
“The Understudy”
The Improv faces the cast of “Rochelle Rochelle: The Musical” in a softball game. George wins the game for The Improv by tackling the musical’s catcher, Bette Midler, while rounding home plate.

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Central Park
New York, NEW YORK (map)
“The Engagement”
Roxy the kidnapped dog is seen running through the park on her way back home.

Central Park 59th Street Gate
E. 59th St. and Fifth Ave., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: Fifth Avenue – 59th Street (N,Q,R)
“The Sponge”
The New York AIDS Walk begins at the 5th Ave. and 59th St. entrance to Central Park every year. Kramer barely survives the AIDS Walk for refusing to wear the AIDS ribbon.

Central Park
New York, NEW YORK (map)
“The Gum”
Deena confronts George about his “problem,” trying to bring awareness to George’s “warning signs” when he catches Ruthie Cohen riding a horse through the park.

Central Park
New York, NEW YORK (map)
“The Rye”
Kramer leads the hansom cab through the park for riders, describing his off-view of the park’s history: “This was designed in 1850 by Joe Pepitone…built during the Civil War, so the Northern armies could practice fighting on grass.”

Central Park
New York, NEW YORK (map)
“The Cadillac”
The chase between Kramer and the cable guy runs through the park. George and Marisa Tomei go on their first (and only) date here, where George initially woos her with the word “manure,” but then abruptly ends the courtship when he reveals he’s already “sort of engaged.” The Naumburg Bandshell is shown in an establishing shot of George and Marisa’s date.

Central Park
New York, NEW YORK (map)
“The Invitations”
Jerry and Jeannie are seen gleefully stepping over a homeless man in the park.

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Central Park
New York, NEW YORK (map)
“The Little Kicks”
George (and his father’s 1968 Pontiac GTO) meet Anna in the park, until Elaine whisks her away in cab, telling George to stay away.

Central Park
New York, NEW YORK (map)
“The Package”
Kramer and Newman are smoking cigars in the park, discussing the Bermuda Triangle.

Central Park
New York, NEW YORK (map)
“The Chicken Roaster”
George meets Heather for an exchange (between her clock and his sable hat) in the park, yet discovers she just wants to see him again, even though he has her stolen clock.

Central Park
New York, NEW YORK (map)
“The Andrea Doria”
Kramer meets Smuckers the dog, who shares his cough. Elaine later gets hit in the head by a flying bird, further propelling Alan’s assessment that Elaine has a huge head.

Tavern On The Green (NOW CLOSED)
67 Central Park W., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 72nd Street (B,C)
“The Susie”
The Yankees hold a ball there, where George struggles to get Allison to come…and ends up inadvertently using Kramer to make a great entrance, by twirling him.

Central Park
New York, NEW YORK (map)
“The Nap”
Elaine goes for “a little stroll” through the park with Hal, and discovers Hal’s back problems.

Central Park
New York, NEW YORK (map)
“The Muffin Tops”
Jerry and Alex stroll through the park, where Alex divulges on the benefits of hairless animals.

Central Park
New York, NEW YORK (map)
“The Summer Of George”
George stops off in the park and decides to play 9 holes of “frolf” before heading home.

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Central Park
New York, NEW YORK (map)
“The Junk Mail”
Kramer tries trading Jerry’s new van for Anthony Quinn’s undershirt, which he claims he stole from Quinn in the park while he was doing situps. Jerry tries tracking down Fragile Frankie Merman in the park, who frantically digs a hole over his disappointment with Jerry’s reaction to the van. George drives his cousin Rhisa out here to get caught by his parents, but they end up catching his parents in a lewd act.

Central Park
New York, NEW YORK (map)
“The Merv Griffin Show”
George tests his theory on the “deal” with the pigeons by running at a group of pigeons…where he ends up stampeding them.

Central Park
New York, NEW YORK (map)
“The Betrayal”
Kramer and FDR (Franklin Delano Romanowski) argue over shooting stars, wishing wells and pulled eyelashes, trying to use their wishes to determine whether Kramer will, in fact, drop dead.

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The Sponge (season 7, episode 9)

written by Peter Mehlman, directed by Andy Ackerman
original airdate: December 7, 1995

Elaine panics when she learns that her favorite birth control device is going off the market. She now must determine if her boyfriend is “spongeworthy.” Jerry dates a woman whose number he got off an AIDS Walk list. Kramer refuses to wear the red ribbon at the AIDS Walk and suffers the consequences.

FEATURED LOCATIONS

The Improv

Jerry’s Apartment
Jerry calls Lena from Kramer’s AIDS Walk list, but when she discovers the truth about how he got her number, she is surprisingly okay with it (“she’s giving and caring and genuinely concerned about the welfare of others – I can’t be with someone like that!”). Jerry cuts George out of the gossip loop for leaking the info to Susan. Kramer struggles to sufficiently rest up for the AIDS Walk.

Monk’s Café
Jerry sneaks Lena’s phone number off of Kramer’s AIDS Walk donor list. Kramer tells Elaine that the sponge is off the market, sending her on a city-wide search for reserves, and sending George and Susan into looking for alternative contraception.

Susan’s office
New York, NEW YORK
Jerry envisions that telling George how he got Lena’s phone number will result in Susan gossiping to her friend Monica, shown in her office on the phone. Naturally, George goes down this exact route, with the information getting back to Lena via Monica via Susan.

Monica’s apartment
New York, NEW YORK
Jerry envisions that telling George how he got Lena’s phone number will result in Susan gossiping to her friend Monica, shown in her apartment on the phone. Naturally, George goes down this exact route, with the information getting back to Lena via Monica via Susan.

Pasteur Pharmacy
806 Lexington Ave., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: Lexington Avenue -63rd Street (F)
Elaine finds the final case of the Today Sponges during her “25 block radius hard target search”…taking three…no, ten…no, twenty…no, twenty five…yeah, just give me the whole case.

La Boite en Bois
75 W. 68th St., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 66th Street – Lincoln Center (1)
Jerry, Lena, George and Susan go out for dinner…and George accidentally drops a hint about an unlisted number to Lena.

Kramer’s Apartment
Jerry warns Kramer over spending the night before the AIDS Walk drinking, smoking and gambling, but Kramer is not concerned for his condition the next day.

Elaine’s Apartment
George goes over to Elaine’s to beg for extra sponges, but is not deemed “spongeworthy.” Elaine also holds a rigorous screening process to deem whether Billy is also “spongeworthy.”

Lena Small’s apartment
New York, NEW YORK
Lena is told by Monica how Jerry actually got her phone number. She later deems Jerry to not be “spongeworthy,” as he lies about his jeans size by writing over his true size, 32, marking the pants a size 31.

Central Park 59th Street Gate
E. 59th St. and Fifth Ave., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: Fifth Avenue – 59th Street (N,Q,R)
The New York AIDS Walk begins at the 5th Ave. and 59th St. entrance to Central Park every year. Kramer barely survives the AIDS Walk for refusing to wear the AIDS ribbon.

George’s Apartment
George fails to “beat the clock,” as he is unable to open a condom wrapper in order to have make-up sex with Susan in absence of the sponge. An incorrect establishing shot in the episode shows the outside awning of George’s first apartment on W. 90th St.

The Phone Message (season 2, episode 4)

written by Larry David & Jerry Seinfeld, directed by Tom Cherones
original airdate: February 13, 1991

Paranoid because his new girlfriend hasn’t returned his call, George leaves a series of progressively nasty phone messages on her answering machine. When he learns she’s out of town, George enlists Jerry to help him steal the message tape before she can hear George’s messages.

FEATURED LOCATIONS

The Improv

Jerry’s Apartment
Jerry has Donna at his apartment, where they bicker over whether the cotton Dockers commercial is worth liking…and over Jerry revealing her hatred of the commercial to Kramer.

Monk’s Café
George reveals his plan to erase any evidence of his phone message – get Jerry into the apartment and swap out the tape.

Empire State Building
350 Fifth Ave., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 34th Street – Herald Square (B,D,F,M,N,Q,R)
Shown in an establishing shot of George and Carol sitting in the car.

parking spot
New York, NEW YORK
Jerry and Donna are shown parked in a car.

Scotland, UNITED KINGDOM (map)
Jerry challenges Donna to try her Scottish accent, which Donna notes sounds more Irish, to which Jerry replies “Irish, Scottish, what’s the difference lassie?”

IRELAND (map)
Jerry challenges Donna to try her Scottish accent, which Donna notes sounds more Irish, to which Jerry replies “Irish, Scottish, what’s the difference lassie?”

North American Aerospace Defense Command
Peterson Air Force Base, Platte Ave. & Powers Blvd., Colorado Springs, COLORADO (map)
George mentions the only people who want coffee “for coffee” at midnight are on 24-hour missile watch at NORAD.

Round Table Room, Algonquin Hotel
59 W. 44th St., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 42nd Street – Bryant Park (B,D,F,M)
Upon hearing that Donna and her coworkers all love the Cotton Dockers commercial, Jerry snarkily replies that “I bet you got a regular Algonquin Round Table there,” in reference to the famed table of literary critics who met daily for lunch here for nearly ten years.

The Hamptons, Long Island, NEW YORK (map)
Carol doesn’t hear George’s message, as she spent 3 days in the Hamptons and was unable to check her voicemail.

Carol’s apartment
New York, NEW YORK
George sneaks Jerry into Carol’s apartment, to successfully swap out her answering machine tape…to no avail, as she had already heard the message.

The Sniffing Accountant (season 5, episode 4)

written by Larry David & Jerry Seinfeld, directed by Tom Cherones
original airdate: October 7, 1993

Jerry thinks his accountant is a drug addict. Jerry, Kramer and Newman plot a stakeout. George plans another career change: bra salesman.

FEATURED LOCATIONS

The Improv

Jerry’s Apartment
Jerry, Kramer and Newman strategize how to handle their supposedly drug-addicted accountant, planning a stakeout. They also draft a cease and desist letter, but come to realize that Jerry’s mohair sweater was the cause of the sniffing.

Monk’s Café
Jerry and Kramer grow suspicious after meeting with their accountant, Barry Prophet, after seeing him sniffing constantly when he meets them at Monk’s.

Costanza House
Frank sets up a job interview for George for a bra salesman, later testing George on cup sizes by using Estelle’s bra at the dinner table.

Elaine’s Apartment
Elaine and Jake Jarmel have a fight over their differences regarding exclamation points, after Jake fails to “capture the moment” of an exciting phone message for Elaine.

SOUTH AMERICA (map)
Jerry and Kramer discover their accountant took off to South America on a “business trip,” potentially with their money, thus having Jerry impune the entire continent by claiming that people that go there “come back with things taped to their large intestine!”

stakeout location
61 Irving Pl., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 14th Street – Union Square (N,Q,R)
Where Jerry and Newman stake out Barry, the sniffing accountant, passing time by discussing the benefits and drawbacks of dental tape. This location is just up the street from Pete’s, the bar where Kramer meets with Barry face-to-face.

Pete’s Tavern
129 E. 18th St., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 14th Street – Union Square (N,Q,R)
Kramer stakes out Barry, chugging a beer with a cigarette in his mouth in order to “blend in;” Kramer only gets a photo of Barry on the toilet, which he uses later to try to shame him.

E.D. Granmont (NOT REAL)
Seventh Ave. between W. 34th and W. 39th Sts., New York, NEW YORK
Where George has his interview with E.D. Granmont, and initially gets the job, but then loses it for feeling Ms. De Granmont’s shirt material while waiting for an elevator. The same company is featured in “The Doorman,” but shown to be in the Commerce Building at 708 Third Ave.

Pendant Publishing
Elaine gets in trouble from Mr. Lippman for putting in too many exclamation points in Jake Jarmel’s manuscript.

The Shoes (season 4, episode 16)

written by Larry David & Jerry Seinfeld, directed by Tom Cherones
original airdate: February 4, 1993

Jerry and George lose their TV pilot after sneaking a peek of the NBC executive’s daughter’s cleavage. Elaine thinks everyone’s obsessed with her Botticelli shoes.

FEATURED LOCATIONS

The Improv

Jerry’s Apartment
Jerry and George struggle to write for the Elaine pilot character. The gang discusses “cleavage etiquette” after George is caught ogling Russell’s teenage daughter.

Monk’s Café
Jerry and Elaine see Gail Cunningham at the coffee shop, where she dramatically comments on how Elaine bought her shoes from the trendy store Botticelli.

West Side YMCA
5 W. 63rd St., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 66th Street – Lincoln Center (1)
Kramer tells Jerry that he was on his way here when he “snubbed” Gail Cunningham.

Pfieffer’s (NOT REAL)
New York, NEW YORK
Home of the “power lunch” crowd, where Gail Cunningham is a chef, and Jerry, George and Elaine convince Russell Dalrymple to give the pilot a second chance.

Botticelli
666 Fifth Ave., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 5th Avenue – 53rd Street (E,M)
Where Elaine buys the infamous shoes she needs to give to Gail Cunningham; this is the closest location to TV Jerry.

Dana Foley’s office
New York, NEW YORK
George has another session with his therapist, where George criticizes her for not liking the pilot script or the butler storyline.

Gail Cunningham’s apartment
New York, NEW YORK
Kramer tells the gang that he walked with Gail from the YMCA to her building, where he put his arm around her and “planted one,” even though he had snubbed her just the other day.

Russell Dalrymple’s condo
1125 Park Ave., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 86th Street (4,5,6)
Where George “got a good look” at Russell’s daughter, Molly’s, cleavage, thus putting a major hamper on the pilot’s survival. Jerry: “There was cleavage in the area! It’s a reflex, cleavage-poke!” This is the same building exterior as Beth’s apartment in “The Wait Out,” and Heather’s apartment in “The Chicken Roaster.”

Bouchard’s (NOT REAL)
53rd St., New York, NEW YORK
This is where Russell and Elaine go on their first date, and where George reveals that his cousin who used to work there used the bouillabaisse for a toilet: “if you go in there, stick with the consomme.”

Empire State Building
350 Fifth Ave., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 34th Street – Herald Square (B,D,F,M,N,Q,R)
Jerry mentions George was staring at Molly’s cleavage like he “just put a quarter in one of those big metal things on top of the Empire State Building.” The observatory (home of the “big metal things”) is on the 86th floor.

The Serenity Now (season 9, episode 3)

written by Steve Koren, directed by Andy Ackerman
original airdate: October 9, 1997

George competes with Lloyd Braun at selling computers in the Costanzas’ garage. Frank shouts “serenity now” to keep calm. Jerry gets in touch with his emotions. Mr. Lippman’s son kisses Elaine at his bar mitzvah. Kramer sets up Frank’s old screen door and spends time relaxing outside his apartment.

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The Improv is not featured in this episode.

Jerry’s Apartment
The gang tells Jerry he cannot truly get mad. Due to this, an emotionally fragile Jerry declares his love for George, and proposes to Elaine, who initially turns him down. However, Elaine eventually accepts Jerry’s proposal, but by then he is back to his usual self and rejects her. Kramer tries a return attack on the “neighborhood” kids.

Monk’s Café
Patty tries to get Jerry to express his anger, and begins to get it out of him at the coffee shop…but naturally he ends up taking it too far, ending the relationship.

Costanza House
George and Kramer go to fix Frank’s screen door (Kramer: “I love going to the country”), and Kramer takes the door home, while George reignites his feud with Lloyd Braun. George and Lloyd compete to sell computers in the Costanza’s garage, with neither actually selling anything for “Constanza and Son.”

La Caridad (NOW CLOSED)
2199 Broadway, New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 79th Street (1)
Patty gives away Knicks home opener tickets so she and Jerry can go for dinner here. Although other La Caridads exist in New York, “Notes About Nothing” from the Season 9 DVD claims this one was likeliest for them to visit, as its closest to Jerry’s Apartment.

Madison Square Garden
4 Pennsylvania Pl., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 34th Street – Penn Station (1,2,3)
Jerry shows off his lack of emotion when being told that Patty gave away their tickets to the Knicks home opener here.

Bronx, NEW YORK (map)
When George asks if Jerry wants to remove a screen door at his father’s house in Queens, Jerry sarcastically replies that he’s already removing another screen door in the Bronx.

Kramer’s Apartment
Kramer installs Frank Costanza’s discarded screen door to his apartment, turning the outside of his door into the typical classic American front porch and garden, sans an actual porch and garden.

Dante Caterers (NOW CLOSED)
75-07 31st Ave., East Elmhurst, Queens, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: Northern Boulevard (M,R)
Elaine goes to Adam Lippman’s bar mitzvah here, where he kisses her to prove his manhood…and Elaine brings Boggle as a gift.

Cincinnati / Northern Kentucky International Airport
2939 Terminal Dr., Hebron, KENTUCKY (map)
Showing off his anger, Jerry yells at his airline for trying to stop him over in Cincinnati, even getting a first class upgrade due to his outburst. Although the airport serves Cincinnati, it is actually located just over the Ohio state border in Kentucky.

Mr. Lippman’s apartment
219 W. 81st St., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 79th Street (1)
Elaine tries explaining to Adam that he isn’t a man, forcing him to renounce Judaism. Mr. Lippman later tries to appeal to Elaine’s “Shiks appeal” by throwing himself at her, and when she recoils, he too renounces the faith. Thanks Erkan B. for the tip!

Rabbi Glickman’s apartment
16 W. 75th St., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 72nd Street (B,C)
Elaine visits Rabbi Glickman (called Rabbi Kirschbaum in “The Postponement“) to try and combat her “Shiks appeal,” but is also hit on by the rabbi.

Myrtle Beach, SOUTH CAROLINA (map)
Rabbi Glickman mentions to Elaine that a member of his congregation has a timeshare here, and that he and Elaine could conceivably “wing on down after the high holidays.”

The Heart Attack (season 2, episode 8)

written by Larry Charles, directed by Tom Cherones
original airdate: April 25, 1991

George’s false alarm heart attack lands him in the hospital for a tonsillectomy. He visits Kramer’s holistic healer but experiences a downfall of alternative medicine.

FEATURED LOCATIONS

The Improv

Jerry’s Apartment
Jerry awakes in the middle of the night, writing what he finds to be a hilarious bit, which just turns out to be repeating a line from a cheesy TV movie: “flaming globes of Sigmund!”

Monk’s Café
George is convinced he is having a heart attack at Monk’s, after watching a TV program the night before about coronaries. In true George fashion, he still manages to argue his check before leaving for the hospital.

Manhattan Memorial Hospital (NOT REAL)
New York, NEW YORK
While supposedly having a heart attack, George suggests Jerry have him taken here, as there’s “less of a line” than other hospitals. No establishing shot is shown of a hospital building, but rather an ambulance taking George to the hospital.

Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Pkwy., Brooklyn, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: Eastern Parkway – Brooklyn Museum (2,3)
A poster for the museum is seen behind Jerry and the nurse at the hospital.

Sizzler
Kramer praises the hospital cafeteria, saying its like “Sizzler opened up a hospital.”

Tor’s apartment
973 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: Cathedral Parkway – 110th Street (A,B,C,D)
George and Jerry visit Kramer’s herbalist to cure George’s tonsillitis, with even more disastrous results than the original heart attack. Tor’s apartment shares the same exterior as Antonio’s building from “The Busboy.”

parking spot
New York, NEW YORK
Elaine and Dr. Fein are parked, with Dr. Fein going into tremendous details about the physiology of the tongue.

Richfield Coliseum (NOW CLOSED)
2923 W. Streetsboro Rd., Richfield, OHIO (map)
When asking Tor to translate Jerry’s half-asleep note, all he comes up with is “Cleveland 117, San Antonio 109.” The Cleveland Cavaliers played here during the 1990-91 NBA season.

HemisFair Arena (NOW CLOSED)
434 S. Alamo St., San Antonio, TEXAS (map)
When asking Tor to translate Jerry’s half-asleep note, all he comes up with is “Cleveland 117, San Antonio 109.” The San Antonio Spurs played here during the 1990-91 NBA season.

The Pool Guy (season 7, episode 8)

written by David Mandel, directed by Andy Ackerman
original airdate: November 16, 1995

Elaine realizes she has no female friends and makes an effort to get to know Susan, causing George’s worlds to collide. The annoying pool guy from Jerry’s health club won’t leave him alone. Kramer’s new phone number is one digit off from Moviefone and he decides to offer his own movie info service to those who mistakenly call him.

FEATURED LOCATIONS

The Improv

Jerry’s Apartment
Jerry suggests Elaine call Susan to ask her out for a girl’s day on the town, prompting Kramer to warn Jerry about “colliding” George’s worlds of Relationship George and Independent George…and “a George, divided against itself, cannot stand!” Kramer discovers “he’s FILK” when his new phone number is nearly identical to Moviefone.

Monk’s Café
Elaine and Susan become closer as girlfriends together, upsetting George that his worlds may “collide”…and they do, coming to a head when a booth at Monk’s is taken up by Jerry, Kramer, Elaine and Susan…leaving no room for him. He later dines alone at Reggie’s in disarray.

Metropolitan Museum Of Art
1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 86th Street (4,5,6)
Elaine invites Jerry and George to a historical clothing exhibit at The Met (“what Mary Todd wore to Lincoln’s funeral”), but ends up taking Susan and “colliding” George’s worlds.

Loews Paragon Theater (now AMC Loews 84th Street 6)
2310 Broadway, New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 86th Street (1)
Jerry and Kramer go to see “Firestorm”, but get stuck sitting with Ramon the Pool Guy. Jerry, Elaine and Susan later see “Chunnel” here, ditching George once again…and George later snaps, screaming at the crowd in the 9:30 showing, when the gang was in the 9:00 theatre.

George’s Apartment
George’s “worlds collide” when Elaine invites Susan to a museum, wanting to be girlfriends with her separate from the gang.

Elaine’s Apartment
Elaine calls George to ask Susan out to lunch and a day at The Met, starting the “collision” of George’s worlds.

Embassy 1 Theatre (NOW CLOSED)
1560 Broadway, New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 49th Street (N,Q,R)
An establishing shot of Jerry and Kramer at the theatre shows Times Square, focused on the Embassy 1 Theatre…even though it was shown earlier that Jerry and Kramer are at the Loews Paragon Theater, almost forty blocks north.

Kramer’s Apartment
Kramer begins acting as the Moviefone guy, as their phone numbers are similar…before being acosted by the actual Moviefone man at his front door.

Physique Health Club
New York, NEW YORK
Jerry’s new health club, where he is pestered by Ramon the pool guy. Jerry and Newman later inadvertently knock Ramon out, and since they refuse to give him CPR, are booted from the club.

Ketchum-Downtown YMCA
401 S. Hope St., Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA (map)
All of the health-club scenes at Jerry’s new club, “Physique Health Club,” were filmed at the Downtown YMCA.

Sony Theatre Lincoln Square (now AMC Loews Lincoln Square)
1998 Broadway, New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 66th Street – Lincoln Center (1)
Kramer tells a caller to 555-FILK the time for the 8:30 showing of “Cupid’s Rifle” at this theatre.

Inwood-207th Street Station
W. 207th St. and Broadway, New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: Inwood – 207th Street (A)
Jerry takes the subway with Ramon to this stop, bailing on him after telling him he doesn’t want to be friends any longer. The station shows the station on the “A” line, but with a red icon, and the continuity is off, as 207th St. is the northbound terminus of the A train, so Ramon would either have to get off the train or head back south. This station is only accessible on the A line.

Queens College
65 Kissena Blvd., Queens, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: Flushing – Main Street (7)
Jerry is seen wearing a Queens College shirt when talking to Ramon at the health club.

Reggie’s (actually Munson Diner, NOW CLOSED)
12 Lake St., Liberty, NEW YORK (map)
George eats here once his “worlds collide,” and there’s no room left at Monk’s Café now that Susan is getting friendly with the rest of the gang. The original Hell’s Kitchen location was moved, via flatbed, outside the city to Liberty in 2005.

Criterion Center Stage Right (NOW CLOSED)
1530 Broadway, New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: Times Square – 42nd Street (1,2,3,7,N,Q,R,S)
An establishing shot of George headed to the theater shows Times Square, focused on the Criterion Center…even though it was said earlier that the gang is at the Loews Paragon Theater, almost forty blocks north.

Channel Tunnel
Folkestone, England, UNITED KINGDOM (map)
Jerry, Elaine and Susan go to see the film “Chunnel,” about the Channel Tunnel that runs between Folkestone, England and Coquelles, France.

Channel Tunnel
Coquelles, FRANCE (map)
Jerry, Elaine and Susan go to see the film “Chunnel,” about the Channel Tunnel that runs between Folkestone, England and Coquelles, France.

The Cigar Store Indian (season 5, episode 10)

written by Tom Gammill & Max Pross, directed by Tom Cherones
original airdate: December 9, 1993

Jerry offends Elaine’s friend with a cigar store Indian. Kramer sells his coffee table book idea to Elaine’s boss, Mr. Lippman.

FEATURED LOCATIONS

Monk’s Café is not featured in this episode.

The Improv

Jerry’s Apartment
Jerry gives Elaine Winona’s copy of the infamous Al Roker TV Guide…which she later asks Jerry back for. When Jerry implies that asking for an already-given gift back is familiar to an aboriginally-offensive term, Jerry simply replies with “I’m sorry, I’m not familiar with that term.”

Costanza House
Jerry and Elaine mention the house smells like dandruff, kasha, mothballs, cheap carpeting…potpourri really. George hosts Sylvia at the house, pretending its his own…but he can only serve prune juice because he “forgot” the combination to the liquor cabinet. Frank discovers his TV Guide is missing, and Estelle finds a condom wrapper on her bed, and as a result, George is grounded.

Queensboro Plaza station
27th St. and Queens Pl., Long Island City, Queens, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: Queensboro Plaza (7,N,Q)
Kramer tries to grab a gyro from the station platform, but misses getting back on the train, and loses his gyro (as Jerry has happen later by Al Roker). Elaine later tries grabbing a gyro, and is successful…but gets sauce on Frank’s new TV Guide. This station is accessible on the N, Q or 7 lines.

Revelations Antiques (NOT REAL)
45 Second Ave., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 2nd Avenue (F)
Where George gets his parents’ coffee table refinished, and Jerry buys Elaine a cigar store Indian as a “peace offering.” George mentions he lives around the corner, seemingly placing the store in Queens, despite the storefront actually being in Manhattan. Thanks Erkan B. for the tip!

Elaine’s Apartment
Elaine hosts a girl’s poker night, when Jerry brings over the cigar store Indian as a gift for Elaine, offending Winona.

Winona’s apartment
New York, NEW YORK
Jerry simultaneously offends a Chinese mailman by asking for good nearby Chinese food, and Kramer drives by in a taxi with the indian in front of Winona, deeply offending her as well.

Ricky’s apartment
New York, NEW YORK
Ricky is seen furiously working at a paper arrangement, made up of the discarded TV Guide Elaine left behind on the subway.

ISRAEL (map)
Jerry, in saying that society is becoming too racially sensitive, mentions that if someone asks him “which way is Israel, I don’t fly off the handle!”

Bourbon St., New Orleans, LOUISIANA (map)
After discovering a used condom wrapper in their bedroom, Frank laments that he’s gone two weeks, and George has turned their house “into Bourbon Street.”

The Gentle Harvest (NOT REAL)
New York, NEW YORK
Jerry tells Winona they’ll go for dinner here, where he made reser…he arranged for the appropriate accommodations.

Madison Square Garden
4 Pennsylvania Pl., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 34th Street – Penn Station (1,2,3)
Jerry tells Winona he got floor seats to a Knicks game from a scal…one of those guys, the guys, they sell the tickets to the sold out events.

Gus’ Smoke Shop (NOT REAL)
600 Madison Ave., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 5th Avenue – 59th Street (N,Q,R)
Kramer tries to sell his cigar store indian to this store, before meeting Mr. Lippman. Lippman claims the cigar store is “right next door” to Pendant Publishing.

Pendant Publishing
Kramer sells the Indian to Mr. Lippman, and pitches the coffee table book idea to him. Lippman tells Elaine she should come up with ideas like Kramer’s, asking “what the hell do you do around here all day anyway?”

Santa Fe, NEW MEXICO (map)
Mr. Lippman mentions to Kramer that his coffee table was custom-made for him in Santa Fe.

The Subway (season 3, episode 13)

written by Larry Charles, directed by Tom Cherones
original airdate: January 8, 1992

A subway ride leads to four very bizarre experiences for the gang. Train delays cause Elaine to miss a lesbian wedding. Jerry befriends an overweight exhibitionist. George meets a woman on the train and skips a job interview. Kramer overhears a hot tip on a horse.

FEATURED LOCATIONS

The Improv

Jerry’s Apartment
The apartment is only mentioned, NOT seen. George takes Jerry’s keys to pick up his spare at the apartment, due to the fact that George has been robbed of his keys, wallet, clothes…and dignity.

Monk’s Café
After being split up on various adventures across the city, the gang reunites at Monk’s…including George, wearing only a hotel bed sheet, after having his suit and wallet stolen.

Coney Island, Brooklyn, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue (D,F,N,Q)
Jerry heads to Coney Island to pick up his car that was stolen in “The Alternate Side.” Kramer gives Jerry the following convoluted directions:
KRAMER: All right, Coney Island. Okay, you can take the B or the F and switch for the N at Broadway-Lafayette, or you can go over the bridge to DeKalb and catch the Q to Atlantic Avenue, then switch to the IRT 2, 3, 4 or 5, but don’t get on the G. See, that’s very tempting, but you wind up on Smith and 9th Street, then you got to get on the R.
ELAINE: Couldn’t he just take the D straight to Coney Island?
KRAMER: Well, yeah…

Grand Central-42nd Street Station
E. 42nd St. and Park Ave., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: Grand Central – 42nd Street (4,5,6,7,S)
The gang takes the 5 Lexington Avenue Express train together, until they all depart and head in opposite directions. This station is accessible on the 4, 5, 6, 7 or S lines.

Astroland (NOW CLOSED)
1000 Surf Ave., Coney Island, Brooklyn, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue (D,F,N,Q)
Jerry invites the gang to join him on Coney Island, for a ride on the Cyclone. Jerry also mentions the Cyclone in his closing monologue, noting that riding the D train to Brooklyn as being more exhilarating than riding the Cyclone.

Nathan’s Famous
1310 Surf Ave., Coney Island, Brooklyn, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue (D,F,N,Q)
Jerry further tries getting someone to go with him, even offering hot dogs at Nathan’s on him.

14th Street Station
W. 14th St. and Sixth Ave., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 14th Street (F,M)
An establishing shot during the episode shows a train pulling in to 14th Street Station on the IND Sixth Avenue Line. This station is accessible on the F or M lines.

28th Street Station
W. 28th St. and Seventh Ave., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 28th Street (1,2)
An establishing shot during the episode when George meets Luanne the scam artist shows the train whizzing through 28th Street station on the IRT Broadway – Seventh Avenue Line. This station is accessible on the 1 or 2 lines.

Hotel Edison
228 W. 47th St., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 49th Street (N,Q,R)
George is famously handcuffed to a hotel bed by a con artist he met on the subway, who robs him of his suit and the only $8 he has.

OTB Off-Track Betting (NOW CLOSED)
714 Third Ave., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: Grand Central – 42nd Street (4,5,6,7,S)
Kramer wins $18,000 by betting on a mudder he overheard about on the subway. This OTB is shown next to a store called Ecstasy Ladies Fashion. Thank you to Bilita Mpash for spotting the location!

Moe Ginsburg (NOW CLOSED)
162 Fifth Ave., New York, NEW YORK (map)
nearest subway: 23rd Street (N,R)
George’s only suit (a discount one he bought for $350) is stolen by Louann while he is handcuffed to a hotel bed.