Street from "Do the Right Thing"

The iconic "Do the Right Thing" (1989) by Spike Lee, was filmed entirely on this street - Stuyvesant between Lexington and Quincy - here in the Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn. Here, Mookie (Spike Lee) the delivery man for the pizza place owned by Sal Frangione (Danny Aiello), reveals a story of racial tensions rise in the midst of a heatwave. The neighborhood becomes violent when two local African American men are apprehended by police and one, Radio Raheem (Bill Nunn), is killed. "Do the Right Thing" is one of the most controversial and greatest films of its time as it looks deep into race relations in the urban setting.