A. This was tricky.
On the one hand, there were a lot of great Getty photos,
showing them filming the scene, and the captions on those photos
identified it as somewhere in Brooklyn. So at least I knew that
much.
But on the other hand, there was a sign on the wall nearby, which read “151 N 72 St.”, and when I checked, there was no such address as. “N 72 St.” in Brooklyn, which had caused me to waste a lot of time looking for it.
I found two amateur videos of the scene being filmed, but it was night,
and the street is fairly non-descript, so they didn’t offer any major
clues.
Fortunately, I eventually found a great video posted by a girl (Kiki) who had
stumbled across Dexter filming in the alleyway. She spotted David Zayas
(Batista) in that alley/parking lot and had filmed the location.
Here is that video:
However, she wasn’t on the same side of the alley as where they
actually shot the scene with the Mangler. Instead, she was at the
opposite end of the alley, on 4th Street, looking into the alley which they seem to be using at a staging area.
Her video included a Dexter no-parking sign
posted on a telephone pole nearby, which listed the surrounding streets.
That allowed me to narrow it down to just a few blocks in
Williamsburg.
That video also revealed an identical sign at that 4th Street end of the alley, as seen in the episode.
Max
Bass The video showed enough detail of the surrounding buildings that,
along with the list of streets, I was eventually able to pinpoint the
alleyin Williamsburg
When I took a close look at the StreetView of that alley entrance. Once I did, I
found the identical sign at that 5th Street end, except that instead of
reading “151 N 72 St.”, this real-life sign read “151 Kent Ave” , I
realized they had faked the sign by changing the street name.
That wasn’t
completely surprising, because I had heard that the scene (in the
context of the show) was supposed to take place in Seattle..
despite the sign, The alleyway entrance where they filmed the scene isn't
on Kent Ave, It is located behind the building 151 Kent
Ave, and runs between 4th St and 5th Street . The Mangler scene
was filmed at the alley's 5th Street entrance of this alley.
I studied the details of that StreetView until I was certain that it was a perfect match for the location.
