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You’ve seen Batman’s mansion. You’ve seen the house that nearly destroyed Tom Hanks. You’ve seen where Robert De Niro terrorized Ben Stiller and the little Long Island house that Kris Kringle seemingly delivered to Natalie Wood.
And they’re all on Long Island.
Nassau and Suffolk counties have served as the backdrop for countless movies and television shows over the decades, with the Gold Coast mansions, suburban neighborhoods and Hamptons estates often standing in for some pretty memorable fictional homes.
Some played starring roles. Others appeared for only a few seconds but became permanently associated with the characters who supposedly lived there.
Here are 11 of the most iconic Long Island houses to make it onto the big or small screen.
The Amityville Horror house
AMITYVILLE
No Long Island house has a bigger connection to Hollywood horror.
The Dutch Colonial home on Ocean Avenue became infamous after Ronald DeFeo Jr. murdered six members of his family there in 1974. George and Kathy Lutz moved into the house the following year and left 28 days later, claiming they had experienced paranormal activity.
Those claims became the basis for Jay Anson’s bestselling 1977 book “The Amityville Horror” and the blockbuster 1979 film starring James Brolin and Margot Kidder, setting in motion a Hollywood franchise that has lasted for decades.
There is one major catch: The house everyone saw in the original movie wasn’t actually in Amityville.
Filmmakers were unable to shoot at the real home and instead used a house in Toms River, N.J., altering it to resemble the Long Island house.
The actual Amityville home remains perhaps Long Island’s most internationally recognizable residence, even though its appearance has been altered and its street number was changed years ago.
Susan’s dream house from ‘Miracle on 34th Street’
The Miracle on 34th Street house (1947) is located in Port Washington, NY on Derby Road. #longisland #longislandhistory #longislandconnection #portwashington #miracleon34thstreet https://t.co/sdzuYU65Wk
— Long Island Connection (@LIConnection) December 4, 2022
PORT WASHINGTON
At the end of the 1947 Christmas classic “Miracle on 34th Street,” little Susan Walker, played by Natalie Wood, spots something along the road that makes her yell for the car to stop.
It’s the house she asked Kris Kringle for.
Susan runs inside, Fred Gailey and Doris Walker follow her, and Fred spots Kris’ cane leaning against the fireplace.
The exterior of Susan’s dream home is a real house on Derby Road in Port Washington. Film-location researchers have matched the house and surrounding neighborhood to what appears in the movie, although the home has undergone some changes since 1947 (but not much).
The interior scenes were filmed elsewhere.
More than three-quarters of a century later, the modest Port Washington home remains part of one of the most famous endings in Christmas movie history.
The ‘Money Pit’ house
@SCENEPAST ANSWER: THE MONEY PIT (1986) — Lattingtown, NY. Answered correctly by @BernheimBiz !! https://t.co/jZel51ojLp
— Craigy Bryan (@CraigyBryan) April 2, 2016
LATTINGTOWN
If ever a house deserved co-star billing, it’s this one.
The 1986 comedy “The Money Pit” stars Tom Hanks and Shelley Long as Walter and Anna, a couple who think they’ve gotten an incredible deal on a sprawling mansion.
Then the place starts falling apart.
The Long Island estate used for the home’s exterior scenes is in Lattingtown on the North Shore, while interior scenes were filmed at Kaufman Astoria Studios.
Over the course of the movie, doors collapse, plumbing explodes, a bathtub crashes through the floor and Walter famously gets trapped inside a rug after falling through a hole.
Hanks’ hysterical reaction to the bathtub disaster remains one of the movie’s signature scenes.
The Byrnes family house from ‘Meet the Parents’
Every fall I watch Meet The Parents (2000) The script had been changed so often that I can’t find the pdf for the last one. I love fall in movies and real life 🙂 It brings lots of nostalgia like this movie https://t.co/HTfg9OhcrJ
— chief privacy officer moo (@datapaladin_) October 1, 2026
OLD BROOKVILLE
Poor Greg Focker never stood a chance.
The imposing home where Ben Stiller’s character spends a disastrous weekend trying to impress his girlfriend’s father, Jack Byrnes, in the 2000 comedy “Meet the Parents” is represented on screen by a real Old Brookville residence.
According to Movies Filmed on Long Island, the Old Brookville home was used for exterior shots of the Byrnes residence.
The movie also filmed around Port Washington, Greenvale and Oyster Bay.
Inside the fictional Byrnes home, Greg encounters everything from Jack’s lie detector to Jinxy the cat and, of course, an unforgettable discussion about whether Greg could “milk” Jack.
The Barone houses from ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’
MERRICK
Here’s the best part about the houses from “Everybody Loves Raymond”: They really are across the street from each other.
The Merrick home used for exterior shots of Ray and Debra Barone’s house sits directly across from the home used to represent Frank and Marie Barone’s house, just as they did in the long-running CBS sitcom.
The interiors that viewers saw each week were sets, but the two Merrick homes became familiar sights through exterior establishing shots during the show’s nine-season run.
That means one suburban Nassau County street managed to provide both halves of one of television’s most famously close family arrangements.
Wayne Manor from ‘Batman Forever’
GLEN COVE
Bruce Wayne had a Long Island address.
Stevenson Taylor Hall at Webb Institute in Glen Cove served as Wayne Manor in the 1995 movie “Batman Forever,” starring Val Kilmer as Batman alongside Jim Carrey, Tommy Lee Jones and Nicole Kidman.
The historic mansion overlooking Long Island Sound was once the Gold Coast estate known as The Braes.
Webb Institute has embraced its Batman connection, even hosting a screening of “Batman Forever” inside Stevenson Taylor Hall as part of Glen Cove’s 350th anniversary celebration in 2018.
And the relationship with Gotham didn’t end there.
Webb says the property has continued to appear in Batman-related productions, making the Glen Cove campus one of Long Island’s more unlikely pieces of superhero history.
Westbury House from ‘North by Northwest’ and plenty more
OLD WESTBURY
If there were an award for Long Island’s hardest-working movie mansion, Westbury House would have a serious case.
The centerpiece of Old Westbury Gardens appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 classic “North by Northwest,” serving as the Long Island estate where Cary Grant’s Roger Thornhill is taken after being kidnapped.
But Hitchcock was only part of the mansion’s Hollywood résumé.
Old Westbury Gardens says the house and grounds have hosted productions including “Love Story,” “The Age of Innocence” and “Wolf.”
Other films to use the estate over the years include “Cruel Intentions,” “The Manchurian Candidate,” “Hitch” and “American Gangster.”
Not bad for one house.
The Larrabee mansion from ‘Sabrina’
My personal favourite is the Salutation House where they filmed Tern Haven <3 https://t.co/fQwSS3m0Gi
— hazel 🌱 (hannahgarrett core) (@_heyyzzerr) June 6, 2023
GLEN COVE
When Hollywood needed a mansion worthy of one of Long Island’s fabulously wealthy fictional families, it went to the real Gold Coast.
The 1995 remake of “Sabrina,” starring Harrison Ford, Julia Ormond and Greg Kinnear, used Salutation House in Glen Cove as the Larrabee family estate.
Unlike some movie homes where only the exterior is authentic, production used the Glen Cove property as the Larrabee mansion, with scenes filmed both inside and outside the estate.
The sprawling Colonial Revival mansion dates to the Gold Coast era and was built for Junius Spencer Morgan III, a member of the J.P. Morgan family.
For a story centered on an impossibly wealthy Long Island family, Hollywood didn’t have to fake much.
Grey Gardens
EAST HAMPTON
Few houses on this list are as inseparable from the story being told as Grey Gardens.
The East Hampton mansion was home to Edith “Big Edie” Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edith “Little Edie” Beale, relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Their eccentric lives inside the deteriorating estate became the subject of Albert and David Maysles’ landmark 1975 documentary “Grey Gardens.”
The Criterion Collection describes the film as an intimate portrait of the mother and daughter living amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton mansion.
The documentary became a cult classic, and the story of the Beales and their house later inspired a Broadway musical and an HBO film starring Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore.
In this case, Grey Gardens wasn’t just a filming location.
It was practically the third lead.
Erica Barry’s beach house from ‘Something’s Gotta Give’
@GidgitVonLaRue Something’s Gotta Give: (This Hamptons Beach House Sold for $41 Million in 2015) https://t.co/sfCAyswfve
— Lisa w/a Twisted Spine (@lisaN4kids) August 9, 2021
SOUTHAMPTON
For a certain generation of moviegoers and interior designers, this may be the most coveted house on the list.
The sprawling beach house belonging to Diane Keaton’s character, Erica Barry, in the 2003 romantic comedy “Something’s Gotta Give” became almost as famous as Keaton and Jack Nicholson.
The exterior is a real oceanfront home on Meadow Lane in Southampton, while the interiors that inspired countless coastal kitchens and living rooms were sets built for the movie.
LocationsHub identifies the Southampton residence as the house used for exterior shots and notes that the real home served as inspiration for the interior set.
The beach scenes, meanwhile, were filmed at Flying Point Beach in Water Mill.
Jordan Belfort’s mansion from ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’
Just took a stroll to see the Wolf of Wall Street house @nickauletta http://t.co/xliV1z41J0
— John Kelly (@JohnKelly014) April 3, 2014
OLD BROOKVILLE
Martin Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street” needed homes big enough to accommodate Jordan Belfort’s increasingly extravagant lifestyle.
Long Island delivered.
The 2013 movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio used a mansion in Old Brookville as Belfort’s movie home and another property in Sands Point as the beach house.
Production designer Bob Shaw confirmed both Long Island locations to Architectural Digest, saying the production filmed the beach house in Sands Point and the mansion in Old Brookville.
The Long Island locations were among roughly 150 used during production of the sprawling Scorsese film.
Top: Stevenson Taylor Hall at Webb Institute in Glen Cove served as Wayne Manor in the 1995 film “Batman Forever.” (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Public domain)
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