Here’s the twist. Not everything is Newport. A huge chunk of the city streets is actually filmed in Troy, New York. Yes, the same Troy that makes you think of collars and sneakers.
Troy’s downtown is a historic time capsule. The show dresses it up with dirt roads and horse poop (fake, I hope). It perfectly mimics 1880s New York City without a single skyscraper in the background.
They even use the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall for fancy ballroom scenes. Imagine doing the cotillion where your grandma cashed her checks.
The Magic of “Street Dressing”
The crew goes wild with set dressing. They bury trolley tracks under fake cobblestones. They even import period-appropriate gas lamps.
Local Troy residents get recruited as extras. So if you see a guy in a top hat buying an apple, he might just be a pharmacist from Albany. That is community theater at its finest.
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Why Troy? It’s cheaper than New York City, and the architecture is still intact. Plus, they don’t have to Photoshop out iPhones from the background.
