Q.
What is it supposed to be on the show?
A. A public street
Q.
Where is it supposed to be on the show?
A. In New York City.

Q. When did we see it on the show
A. In Episode 9 of Season One of Resurrection.
We first see Charley drive into the scene in her Mercedes, and then stop and buy flowers from a street vendor, next to a park, in what appears to be a nice neighborhood.
After she gets back in her car, she
is surprised when Dexter (still posing as Red), pops up from the
back seat and loops a sharp wire garrotte around her neck from behind,
mimicking what the Dark Passenger killer used to do.
When Dexter last saw Charley, it was back outside the steakhouse restaurant,
where her boss, Leon Prater, had promised Dexter that he wouldn't
bother Harrison. But since then, Charley paid an unwelcome visit to
Harrison at his hotel, where she intimidated him with a gun, asked
him personal questions, and took a glass with his fingerprints on it.
So Dexter is out to teach her a lesson, and to convince her to leave Harrison alone.
Dexter uses the garrotte to control her, and makes her drive
around while he issues threats about what will happen if she
continues to bother his son.
When he tells her he broke into her house, she
becomes emotional and asks if he killed her mother. He says he didn't,
but leaves the suggestion that he might, if she doesn't back off.
She tells him that everything she did was a
direct order from Prater, and that he used her concern about her
sick mother has a weakness to control her. She says that apparently his
son is his weakness.
Dexter realizes the Prater is the real villain here, and decides that he needs to take him out.
After genuinely scaring her, Dexter has Charley
pull over on a nondescript street and gets out of the car, letting her
go unharmed.
Q. What is it actually in real life?
A. A public street, next to a park.
Q.
Where can I find it in real life?
A. They set up a fake flower stand at the southwest corner of the (Eastern) Rector Park, near the corner of S End Ave and Rector Place, in New York's Battery Park neighborhood. It is just a block east of the Hudson River.
The tiny park is right across the street (north of) a condo high-rise known as Liberty Court, which is at 200 Rector Place.
The fake flower stand faced S End Avenue, and that is where Charley is standing when she buys the flowers.
When we first see Charley drive into the scene, she is heading south on
S End Ave, She makes a left turn to head east on Rector Place, but she
stops almost immediately and parks just around the corner on the north
side of Rector Place. When she does, the awning right behind her reads
280 ( Rector ). That is a relatively low-rise condo called The Soundings.
She
then walks back around the corner to the flower stand,
and buys the flowers, then walks (NW) back to her car, where
Dexter springs up from the back seat and captures her. She then
drives off east on Rector Place.
In the photo below, when she first arrives, Charley's Mercedes is driving south on S End Ave,,
and is in the process of making a left turn to go east on Rector Place.
As you can see, the fake flower stand was erected at the
southwest corner of those two streets, facing S End Ave.
He eventually releases her here.
The Battery is a 25-acre public park located at the southern tip of
Manhattan Island in New York (within Battery Park City), facing
New York Harbor.
( By the way, if you ever wondered why The Battery in New York is
called that (it probably reminds you of something you recharge), in this
case its origin is the military term that refers to fixed gun
emplacements at a fort. And in the past, the area now known as The
Battery was actually just that: a heavily armed fort originally named
Southwest Battery, designed to protect New York Harbor following
the War of 1812. The Fort was soon
renamed Castle Clinton, and now serves both as a museum and as a
vendor of tickets to the nearby to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis
cruises. )
Here is a matching StreetView of the corner where Charley bought the flowers:
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. This was
another instance where early paparazzi photos of the actual filming
event let me discover the location a month in advance of the show
actually airing.
The photos don't reveal that much, but in one photo
I noticed a sign in the background reading Liberty Court, and I was
able to google that to discover that it was a condominium in Battery
Park. I then used StreetView to compare that location to the photos of
the filming, and I was able to match it by details such as the wrought iron
fence around the park. I could even tell exactly where they had set up
the fake flower shop.
And
that was confirmed when the episode aired, and the awning reading
280 was clearly visible in the background
during the scene where Charley first gets out of her car.
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