The Location: The New Studio

Back in 2025, during the first season of Dexter: Resurrection, the show operated out of the Great Point Studios in Yonkers, NY.   It was a good studio, but Yonkers is about 15 miles north of the central Manhattan. 
 
But for the second season, they moved into a brand new studio located at the west edge of Manhattan, which is much closer to the heart of New York City. In fact, it is within walking distance of NYC landmarks like Central Park, Lincoln Center, Times Square, and the Broadway Theater District, where they film a lot of their scenes now that Dexter is living in the Big Apple.  
 
The new studio is known as Sunset Pier 94 Studios, and is located at 755 12th Ave (Pier 94 at 54th). 
 
Sunset Studios and Dexter have a long history. The first eight seasons of the original Dexter series were filmed at Sunset-Gower Studios, on Sunset Blvd in Hollywood. They since expanded to have several Sunset Studios (all carrying the name of that original famous boulevard) , with this new studio in Manhattan being the latest.
 
How new is it? 
 
It was being built while they filmed Season 1, and it only opened at the start of 2026, just a few months before the second season of Dexter: Resurrection started filming. In fact, Dexter was their first tenant. 
 
You can find the studio's website here.

There are basically two kinds of film shoots: There are on-location shoots, where they go out to a particular real-life place (such as Times Square)  and film there. And then there are studio shoots, usually interiors,  shot inside the giant sound stages at the studio . 
 
The usual routine is to shoot exteriors on location, and then to shoot most interiors on sets at the studio.  
 
Examples of those kind of interior studio sets in Dexter: Resurrection would include Dexter's apartment and  the Police Station, both of which use exterior shots of real-life locations as establishing shots, but the interior scenes are then actually filmed on sets built inside the studio.   

Sometimes, when they film interiors inside an actual location, such as a house, if they need to return there frequently, they will construct a replica set that looks just like the interior of that real house, but is inside a sound stage at the studio.  That allows them to shoot frequent interior scenes  without repeatedly returning to the same real-life location. 
 

Here is a matching StreetView of the Sunset Pier 94 Studio:

And since the start of the new season, they have certainly taken advantage of their new Manhattan location.

Back when they were in Yonkers, they shot a lot of minor scenes around the Yonkers studio, as a matter of convenience. But this season they have filmed multiple scenes in the Hell's Kitchen area surrounding the studio . These include  Harrison's police graduation scene, the Ripper's strip club, and a scene of Dexter & Mia exercising in a park.   

( But they did need to return to Yonkers at least once this year: For the very first scene of the first episode, when they needed to return to film outside of Blessing Kamara's house. )   

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