Editing You've Got Mail (section)

===Filming===
[[Principal photography]] took place primarily on New York City's [[Upper West Side]]. Principal photography began on February 25, 1998, and completed on June 8, 1998.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/327790/youve-got-mail#notes|title=You've Got Mail|website=Turner Classic Movies}}</ref><ref name="LATimes"/><ref name="Vanity Fair">{{cite magazine |last=Carlson |first=Erin |title=You've Got Nora: A Valentine's Day Tribute to Nora Ephron |magazine=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |date=February 13, 2015 |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/02/youve-got-mail-oral-history |access-date=October 13, 2015 |url-access=limited |archive-date=October 13, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151013001843/http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/02/youve-got-mail-oral-history |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.buzzfeed.com/jaimieetkin/youve-got-mail-guide-to-new-york |title=The "You've Got Mail" Guide To New York |last=Etkin |first=Jaimie |date=December 19, 2013 |website=[[BuzzFeed]] |access-date=March 3, 2018 |archive-date=September 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921044232/https://www.buzzfeed.com/jaimieetkin/youve-got-mail-guide-to-new-york |url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Delia Ephron]], recalling the film's bookstore setting, said, "Once we decided that she would be an independent bookstore owner, the reason we made it a children's bookstore is, I think, we always tried to make movies as personal as we could. To find the thing in it that was personal. And we grew up loving children's books more than anything."<ref name="Vanity Fair"/> [[Nora Ephron]] similarly remarked in the film's audio commentary, "This was something that was very important to us—that there be first editions of old children's books. It's part of what make [sic] this a serious bookstore. We wanted to sell the idea that this was a place that really cared about the history of children's literature."<ref name="Vanity Fair"/> Additionally, Ephron had Ryan and Burns rehearse and work at [[Books of Wonder]], an independent New York City children's bookstore, for a week prior to filming in order to get them into character.<ref>{{cite web |last=Todd Van |first=Luling |title=5 Things You Didn't Know About 'You've Got Mail' |website=[[The Huffington Post]] |date=May 19, 2015 |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/19/youve-got-mail-trivia_n_7309240.html |access-date=October 13, 2015 |archive-date=October 29, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151029130924/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/19/youve-got-mail-trivia_n_7309240.html |url-status=live}}</ref> The filming location used as the bookstore was at 106 West 69th Street, at that time Maya Shaper's Cheese and Antique Shop.<ref>{{cite web|title='You've Got Mail' Turns 20 Years Old — See How Much the Upper West Side Has Changed|first=Amber |last=Garrett |date=Dec 12, 2018|url=https://www.distractify.com/entertainment/2018/12/12/o1cy6gP/youve-got-mail-film-locations|work=Distractify}}</ref>

[[Michael Palin]] was initially cast as a reclusive novelist based on [[Thomas Pynchon]], but his scenes were cut from the film.<ref name="Vanity Fair"/><ref>{{cite book |last=Palin |first=Michael |author-link=Michael Palin |title=Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988–1998 |location=London |publisher=[[Weidenfeld & Nicolson]] |year=2014 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/travellingtowork0000pali/page/470/mode/2up 470–71], [https://archive.org/details/travellingtowork0000pali/page/504/mode/2up 504] |isbn=978-0-297-84441-9}}</ref>