Q.
What is it supposed to be on the show?
Q.
Where is it supposed to be on the show?
Q.
When did we see it on the show?
A. We see it first in Episode 1, of Season 1, in a rather mysterious scene.
First, we see Ronald Schmidt leave this apartment
house. We don't know it yet, but he is the killer known as the “Dark
Passenger”, who was given that nickname because he murders rideshare
drivers by posing as a passenger, and then garroting them from the back
seat.
As soon as he's gone, Charley
(Uma Thurman) gets out of her car and walks across the street to the address, breaks into his apartment, and
mysteriously leaves a suitcase filled with cash and an envelope. As she
leaves the building, we hear her say into her phone: “Invitation
delivered”.
Again, viewers don't know it yet, but Charley is the right-hand woman
and
enforcer for billionaire Leon Prater (Peter Dinklage), and the envelope
she is delivering is an invitation to attend one of the billionaire's
macabre soirees for serial killers.N
In Episode 3, Dexter goes to the same building, breaks into Schmidt's
apartment, and, after looking around, finds his garrote and hidden
trophies, more than enough to prove his guilt and satisfy Harry's code.
Q.
What is it actually in real life? A. A brick apartment building.
Where can I find it in real life?
A. You will find this aparment house at 200 E. 205th St. (at Lisbon), just west of the Mosholu Parkway, in the Bedford Park neighborhood of the northwest Bronx, New York. (That's about 10 miles north of Times Square.)
Here is a photo of the property from Zillow:
.
Here is a Google StreetView of the building:
Here is an aerial
photo of the location. And here is a map
link.
Q. How the heck did you figure out where it was?
A.
At first, it would seem that my only clue was the number 200, which is visible on
the stone arch above the apartment house door, in the scene where
Charley exits the building after leaving the invitation. And in a city
as large as New York, that wouldn't be much help.
But that's where the Press and social media come in.
Not only were there press reports about residents in the Bedford Park
neighborhood complaining about the DXO production putting up no-parking
signs in their neighborhood, but more than one person shot video
footage
of the production while it was going on, and posted it on Tiktok.
Not only did they get a great shot of Uma Thurman at the building, but they also got a shot
of Michael C Hall (Dexter) decked out in the Dark Passenger's
wardrobe, while talking to Uma near the building. That let me know
that they were going to have a later scene involving Dexter at the same
address.
But
best of all for me, one video clip happened to record the street sign
right below the guy's window. And when I blew it up, I could clearly see
that it was the intersection of E. 205th St. & Lisbon Place:
So all I had to do was StreetView that area and find the matching building at #200.
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