Q. What is it supposed to be on the show? A. A park, with a fountain.   Q. Where is it supposed to be on the show? A.  Somewhere in New York City. Q. When did we see it on the show? A. In episode one of season two.   In the scene, We see a man enter a park where he uses a burner phone to call the police.    He introduces himself as “The Five Borough Killer” and warns the police that he will kill a New Yorker at A baseball game tomorrow.     After hanging up, he walks out of the park and throws the burner phone away in a trash can, while ordering a couple of hot dogs from a curbside cart Q. What is it actually in real life? A. A small park-like area at the center of a New York piazza.  Q. Where can I find it in real life? A. This is Father Demo Square, a small triangular park located at 220 Bleecker St., in the West Village neighborhood,   It is bounded by Sixth Avenue (on the east), Bleecker Street (on the southwest), and Carmine Street (on the northwest).   when FBK leaves the park and walks out onto a street where he buys the hot dogs, he is on 6th Street (otherwise known as Avenue of the Americas), with the camera looking north.   The tall building he looks up at, with the cellular network antennas on the roof, is located 228 Bleecker St, just northwest of the park    , The square was named after a dedicated Catholic priest, Father Antonio Demo, who served the Italian immigrant community as the pastor of the nearby church from 1897 to 1935.    ( It is right across the street from another small park known as Minetta Triangle, where they filmed another short scene this season. )    Here is a matching StreetView of the Battery Park slip 6 :      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, I thought this was filmed the nearby Washington Square Park, where they filmed another scene with the FBK in the same episode. When I took a closler look, I realized that the three-tiered fountain prominent in the scenewasn't  in Washington Square Park. 
 
So I started looking for that fountain in other New York parks. 
 
But New York has a zillion parks, some huge, some tiny,   and I could have spent weeks searching individual parks for that fountain one by one.  And and the hunt still might not have been successful, because the fountain isn't easily visible from StreetView, which has no views from within the small park, only from nearby streets   

This is where A.I. finally paid off. Although A.I. has huge potential, I found that it wasn't very useful tracking down this season's locations. Google's A.I. was almost completely useless for this purpose, and routinely presented wrong answers with disturbing confidence when asked to identify a location.  ChatGPT  was a little better, but it mainly just ended up confirming my existing assumptions. 
 
But this time, when I asked ChatGPTto find New York parks with three-tiered fountains, it responded admirably, coming up with a short list of parks, with Father Demo Square at the very top of this list.
 
All I had to do was to look at photos of the park to realize that was the right place.  Not only was the fountain a perfect match, but so were the surrounding buildings, and the adjacent street where the FBK buys the hot dogs.
 
( It is only about 800 feet SW of Washington Square Park, where they filmed the other scene in this episode of the FBK AirDropping a video of his crimes. )    

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