Jones Beach Causeway.
The Jones Beach Causeway is a state parkway where a tollbooth was located in Long Island, New York City. It is notorious for being the spot where Sonny Corleone was murdered by assassins of the Barzini crime family.
Behind the scenes[]
Sonny's death.
- According to maps of roads in the area at during the 1940s and 1950s, Mario Puzo likely confused the Jones Beach Causeway with the Loop Parkway when writing The Godfather.[1] The tollbooths there were considered the "actual" murder site until they were removed in 1978.
- According to The Annotated Godfather: The Complete Screenplay, the scene of Sonny's demise was filmed at the Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn.[2] However, according to TheGodfatherTrilogy.com, which looked at aerial images and firsthand accounts, Sonny's death was filmed at a different airfield, the Mitchel Field in Mineola, Long Island.[3][1][4]
- Today, the Jones Beach Causeway is known as the Wantagh State Parkway.
- Sonny lived in Long Beach at the Corleone compound. At the time of his murder, Connie & Carlos had an apartment in Hells Kitchen NYC. Sonny would go through the Atlantic Beach Toll Booth (if the compound was in the West End of LB or East Atlantic Beach) to head to Manhattan, or the Loop Parkway Toll if they lived in the East end of LB. Either Booth works. So they would have needed to set up the sting @ both Booths.
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Where Was Sonny Corleone Killed and Where Was It Shot?
- ↑ Jones, Jenny M. (2007). The Annotated Godfather. Black Dog & Leventhal, p. 169. ISBN 1579128114.
- ↑ http://www.thegodfathertrilogy.com/gf1/gf1scene.html
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20111013112427/http://citynoise.org/article/4855