Seinfeld Apartment Filming Locations Then And Now- Hello Newman

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Channel: SCOTT ON TAPE - Your Pop Culture Tour Guide · 2018 · Entertainment

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Strolling through downtown Los Angeles taking a peek at the iconic apartment building from Seinfeld. Not much has changed in twenty years, it’s still instantly recognizable. Sadly, there were no Polaroid photos of the tenants in the lobby. 

Seinfeld is an American sitcom television series created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld for NBC. The show stars Seinfeld as a fictionalized version of himself, and mostly focuses on his personal life with a handful of friends and acquaintances, including best friend George Costanza (Jason Alexander), friend and former girlfriend Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), and neighbor across the hall Cosmo Kramer (Michael Richards). Seinfeld is set predominantly in an apartment building in Manhattan's Upper West Side in New York City. It is often described as being "a show about nothing", as many of its episodes are about the minutiae of daily life. 

Like most filming locations, the site used as Jerry’s apartment building on the hit TV show Seinfeld, can actually be found in Los Angeles, not Manhattan.  It is a nondescript little building that actually does look very reminiscent of New York. During Seinfeld’s day, the awning of the building was green, but today it is a drab brown.  In real life, the building is called “The Shelley.”  It is fun to visit, as it will bring you right back to the days of Must See TV!

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