Q. What is it supposed to be on the show? A. A public sidewalk.  Q. Where is it supposed to be on the show? A.  In or near Miami, Florida. Q. When did we see it on the show? A. We see this in Episode 4, of Season 1.  When the episode opens, we see a couple of young rollerbladers happily skating to the sound of 1990’s “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)”, near a bridge, alongside what is probably supposed to be Biscayne Bay. But that fun moment comes to a quick end when they look up and spot the body of a young boy hanging from the nearby bridge. The girl screams, and the scene cuts to a related scene of Miami Metro beginning their investigation. Q. What is it actually in real life? A. A public sidewalk, just not in Miami. Q. Where can I find it in real life? A. This scene was filmed in Long Beach, California, on a sidewalk just south of (the west end of)  the Queensway Bridge. The bridge spans the mouth of the Los Angeles River, where it flows into the Pacific Ocean, and this scenic sidewalk is located on the west side of that river), running along the very eastern edge, next to the Queensway Bay.

This ribbon of sidewalk runs all the way from the bridge back (south/southeast) almost all the way to the Queen Mary, the historic 1936 ocean liner that is permanently docked in Long Beach as a hotel and tourist attraction.

The exact location is just north of the Maya Hotel, where Dexter had filmed before, and the sidewalk runs between that hotel and the ocean.

( Across the bay, at the opposite (east) end of the bridge, you’ll find the Aquarium of the Pacific, Shoreline Village, and Shoreline Park, all of which Dexter has filmed at before. )

Q. How the heck did you figure out where it was?

A.  This was an easy one.

The original Dexter had filmed at this bridge more than once, so I had an occasion to photograph it and even walk beneath it. I’ve also driven across it.  And I spent some time at both the Maya Hotel and near the Residence Inn, which are at the foot of the bridge.
 
So I simply recognized it the minute I saw it.

The view of the bridge told me they were on the west side of it, and that the camera was south of it.

And Google StreetView even had images shot on the very same sidewalk where the couple were rollerblading:

 
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