CREDITS MEN IN BLACK, 1997 dir: Barry Sonnenfeld Will Smith Tommy Lee Jones Rip Torn Linda Fiorentino Vincent D'Onofrio

"Today there are approximately 1500 aliens living and working in Manhattan and most of them are decent enough, they're just trying to make a living."

"Cab drivers?"

The forbidding MIB HQ is actually the Holland Tunnel Ventilator Shaft on Battery Place, north of Battery Park.

The alien landing site is the home of the 1964-65 New York Worlds Fair in Flushing Meadow, Union Turnpike-44th Avenue, Queens. Here youíll find the two towers and the Unisphere, the giant hollow globe trashed by the flying saucer (reconstructed in the studio in Hollywood).

Agent J (Will Smith) encounters his first alien by Grand Central Station. A short chase later and theyíre climbing up the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue at East 89th Street.

Men In Black: The jeweller's store: MacDougal Street, Greenwich Village

The ëRosenberg Jewellery storeí, which gets blown up, is at 54 MacDougal Street, Greenwich Village, while the ësquid birthí is at Liberty Park, Jersey City, the tip of New Jersey opposite the Statue of Liberty.

Men In Black: The entrance to the Men In Black HQ: Holland Tunnel Ventilator Shaft, Battery Park

In Men In Black II, Rosario Dawson works at Ben’s Pizza, 177 Spring Street in SoHo (tel: 212.966.4494); Will Smith takes her to the wonderful Empire Diner, 210 Tenth Avenue at 23rd Street (tel: 212.924.0011), (seen in the opening montage of Woody Allen’s Manhattan).

Men In Black II: Will Smith takes Rosario Dawson to the Empre Diner

The ‘Massachusetts’ lighthouse-post office where Tommy Lee Jones is discovered, is on New Yor’'s Fire Island.