Q.
What is it supposed to be on the show?
A. Public streets where Dexter is driving his rideshare car.
Q.
Where is it supposed to be on the show?
A. First, driving down Lexington Ave, then arriving at 508 3rd St., in New York City.
Q. When did we see it on the show?
A. In Episode 1 of Season 2.
This is actually two different short scenes.
The first sees Dexter driving down a street to pick up a passenger (Shaw).
The second scene has him dropping off the passenger, but
discovering that he has made a mistake.
Due to his middle-aged eyes, he
misreads the fine print on his iPhone and mistakes 508 for 503.
When he arrives at 508 3rd Street, his obnoxious Gen-X passenger has a hissy fit
and berates Dexter as he exits the car.
Dexter thinks to himself: People like that make me question the code.
Q. What is it actually in real life?
A. Public streets.
Q.
Where can I find it in real life?
A. In the first very short scene, Dexter is driving north on Avenue of the Americas (which is an alternate name for 6th Ave), starting around 405 Avenue of the Americas, in Greenwich Village.
The church-like building seen in the distance is the Jefferson Market Library, at 425 6th Ave.
The second scene was filmed on the 500 block of LaGuardia Place, specifically between West 3rd Street and Bleecker Street.
When he pulls up to drop off the passenger, Dexter is driving south down LaGuardia Place.
The tree-lined park area on the left side of the first image is LaGuardia Park / LaGuardia Playground, which is on the east side of the street.
This second spot is only about half a mile southeast of the first location.
The shot of Dexter's car pulling up to the curb is at 508 LaGuardia, with 508 being on the driver's of the street.
( But the close-up shot of the number 508 appears to have
been shot somewhere else. The real 508 LaGuardia Place is the
European Waxing Center, and doesn't look anything like that close-up
insert. )
Here is a matching StreetView of the location :
Here is an aerial
photo of the location. And here is a map
link.
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Q. How the heck did you figure out where it was?
A. The key to identifying the first scene of Dexter driving was the tall church-like building in the distance.
That turned out to be the well-known Jefferson Market Library, which gave me the position of the car.
The
second scene was trickier to identify, but since the location was only
half a mile away from the first scene, and the shot provided a good view
of the surrounding street where he stops, I was eventually able to
track it down via StreetView.
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