Locations

Brownsville Bred locations are primarily in and around Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York.

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As our school, we visit Board of Education Public School 284.  It is the Brownsville, Brooklyn elementary school alma mater of the writer/director.  

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Opening courtyard exteriors are at Brownsville's Langston Hughes project buildings, as depicted in the true story, and leaning into the authenticity of our title setting.

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Family home interiors are be in Manhattan, in a two bedroom apartment that resembles the writer's childhood home.

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Our Puerto Rico scenes will be shot on location and include the neighborhoods of Cataño and Condado, Puerto Rico.