Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and others in NYC

What's more of a New York story than an underdog fighting, and overcoming, the odds? Ok, maybe it's an American story. And in most such stories, there’s a mentor figure somewhere, offering plenty of life lessons. Searching for Bobby Fischer has a surfeit of father figures, all teaching young Josh about the mystical art of chess. One, Laurence Fishburne's character, holds court down in Washington Square Park, a traditional site for intense chess matches. Try the southwest corner if you're interested, or head up to Union Square, also a center for chess playing. Finding Forrester skews a bit older and has its share of salty language, along with street basketball and a lot of real life locations. The grizzled, reclusive writer of the title (played by Sean Connery) takes his young disciple on pilgrimages to Madison Square Garden and Yankee Stadium, and a few scenes were shot in the auditorium of the pastoral General Theological Seminary. In the Ninja Turtles movies, Splinter is the name of the swami who plays Mr. Miyagi to the half-shell heroes. Both versions of the flick are set in a subterranean, postapocalyptic New York but find some light of day in places like Times Square. But what they really celebrate is underground NYC.
Fun fact: Max Pomeranc, the boy who plays Josh in Searching for Bobby Fischer, was a highly rated chess player at the time of filming.