10 of Brooklyn’s Most Beloved TV and Movie Locations
Ferdinando’s Focacceria, The Departed
There aren’t a lot of things as satisfying as the small moral victory of a movie that’s supposed to be sooo Boston-y using one of Brooklyn’s most iconic restaurants as a shooting location. Except possibly the feeling of shoveling down one of Ferdinando’s famous, sauce-smothered rice balls, washing it down with a glass of Manhattan Special (they have it on tap here), and gazing up at the framed picture they now have of the owners hanging out with Leonardo DiCaprio.
151 Union St., Carroll Gardens