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===Sets and locations=== {{multiple image | header = | header_align = center | direction = vertical | width = 250 | image1 = Sopranos House 1.jpg | caption1 = The Soprano house in [[North Caldwell, New Jersey|North Caldwell]] (2006) | image2 = The Sopranos - Satriale's Pork Store.jpg | caption2 = [[Satriale's Pork Store]] in [[Kearny, New Jersey|Kearny]] (2007) | image3 = Pizza Land (North Arlington, New Jersey).jpg | caption3 = [[Pizza Land]] in [[North Arlington, New Jersey|North Arlington]] (2021) }} The majority of the exterior scenes took place in [[New Jersey]] and were filmed on location, with the majority of the interior shots filmed at [[Silvercup Studios]] in New York City, including most indoor shots of the Soprano residence, the back room of the strip club [[Bada Bing!]], and [[Dr. Melfi]]'s office.<ref name="bury"/> The pork store was called Centanni's Meat Market in the pilot episode, an actual butchery in [[Elizabeth, New Jersey]].<ref name="locations"> {{cite web |url=https://www.nj.com/sopranos/stories/030401locations.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080306071105/https://www.nj.com/sopranos/stories/030401locations.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 6, 2008 |title=The Locations |last=Parrillo |first=Rosemary |date=March 4, 2001 |access-date=November 14, 2007 |work=The Star-Ledger}}</ref> After the series was picked up by HBO, the producers leased a building with a storefront in [[Kearny, New Jersey]]<ref name="locations"/> which served as the shooting location for exterior and interior scenes for the remainder of production; renamed [[Satriale's Pork Store]].<ref name="locations"/> After the series ended, the building was demolished.<ref name="porkstoredemolished">{{cite news |url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/sopranos-pork-store-demolished |title='Sopranos' Pork Store Demolished |work=Fox News |date=November 12, 2007 |access-date=November 14, 2007 |archive-date=August 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190821062605/https://www.foxnews.com/story/sopranos-pork-store-demolished |url-status=live }}</ref> The strip club Bada Bing! was owned and operated by [[Silvio Dante]] on the show, and is an actual strip club on Route 17 in [[Lodi, New Jersey]].<ref name="locations"/> Exteriors and interiors were shot on location except for the back room.<ref name="locations"/> The club is called Satin Dolls and was an existing business before the show started.<ref name="locations2">{{cite web |url=http://www.nj.com/sopranos/ledger/index.ssf?/sopranos/stories/location.html |title=Location, location, location |last=Zoller Seitz |first=Matt |work=The Star-Ledger |date=January 16, 2000 |access-date=November 14, 2007 |archive-date=December 8, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071208223536/http://www.nj.com/sopranos/ledger/index.ssf?%2Fsopranos%2Fstories%2Flocation.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The club continued to operate during the eight years that the show was filmed there, and a business arrangement was worked out with the owner.<ref name="locations2"/> Locations manager Mark Kamine recalls that the owner was "very gracious" as long as the shooting did not "conflict with his business time".<ref name="locations2"/> Scenes set at the restaurant Vesuvio, owned and operated in the series by character [[Artie Bucco]], were filmed at a restaurant called Manolo's located in Elizabeth for the first episode. After the destruction of Vesuvio within the context of the series, Artie opened a new restaurant called Nuovo Vesuvio; exterior scenes set there were filmed at an Italian restaurant called Punta Dura located in [[Long Island City]].<ref name="locations"/> All the exterior and some interior shots of the Soprano residence were filmed on location at a private residence in [[North Caldwell, New Jersey]].<ref name="locations"/>
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