4. O’Donoghue’s Bar

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The first scene on Staten Island in Ray Donovan – outside the NYPD station and in front of the bar O’Donoghue’s that Ray goes to after being release – is actually shot in Nyack, New York in the Hudson Valley. O’Donoghue’s exterior and interiors, along Main Street, are used, and there is actually a fire department next door, but the set takes part of the facade at 70 Main Street and makes it look like the front of a FDNY firehouse. There is a old-school looking barbershop across the street in real life, but the phone booth and bus stop sign (saying Arthur Kill Road) was added for the set. Ray Donovan also films in Yonkers as a stand-in for Staten Island.