Jenna Rink (Jennifer Garner) has two wishes - to become one of the school cool girls, and to be thirty - rather than be coming up to thirteen and hanging around with uncool Matt (Mark Ruffalo). After her disastrous birthday party an accidental sprinkling of magic dust makes both wishes come true and she finds herself at thirty as a highly successful New York fashion editor. Luckily she locates Matt for help on how her new world works, but as she finds out how she has behaved since that birthday party she increasingly discovers someone she thoroughly dislikes.

Jenna's Apartment, 51 5th Avenue and East 12th Street, Manhattan.   This attractive building has a prime Lower 5th Avenue location and was built in 1928. The 15-story building has 89 apartments. This area is one of the most desirable in the city as it offers excellent public transportation, good schools, fine churches, many restaurants and stores and is also convenient to the trendy Flatiron District and all the charms of Greenwich Village.

East 50th Street and Madison Avenue, Manhattan.

Poise Offices, 444 Madison Avenue (btw East 49th and 50th Streets) Manhattan.   Madison Avenue is a north-south avenue that carries northbound one-way traffic. It is named after and arises from Madison Square, which is itself named after James Madison, the fourth President of the United States and has featured in several films such as Just My Luck, Sliver, Picture Perfect, Confessions of a Shopaholic and Ghost Town.

Matt's Apartment, 305 West 4th Street and Bank Street, Manhattan.   West 4th Street runs east-west through most of eastern and central Manhattan and then turns north at 6th Avenue to intersect with West 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th Streets in Greenwich Village.

5th Avenue and East 12th Street, Manhattan.

Times Square, Manhattan.   Times Square is a major commercial intersection, at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Street. Webcam: Times Square Live Webcam

Henri Bendel Department Store, 712 5th Avenue and West 56th Street, Manhattan.

Conservatory Water, Central Park (72nd and 75th Street) Manhattan.   Conservatory Water, Central Park lies in a natural hollow near Fifth Avenue in New York City's Central Park, centered opposite 74th Street. Films shot at this location include Hide and Seek, Breakfast at Tiffany's and Weekend at Bernie's.

otsoNY Comments: The two characters exit what is believed to be a restaurant/bar, though at number 71 Greene Street, this location has only ever been a clothes store.

71 Greene Street (Broome Street and Spring Street) Manhattan.

Greene Street (broome Street and Spring Street) Manhattan.   SoHo is bounded roughly by Houston Street on the north, Lafayette Street, Centre Street on the east, Canal Street on the south, and West Broadway on the west. Greene Street has been host to such films as 9½ Weeks, Hitch, P.S. I Love You and Zoolander.

Greenwich Avenue and Perry Street, Manhattan.

(Near) Sheep Meadow, Central Park (btw 66th and 69th Street) Manhattan.   The Sheep Meadow, Central Park, was the largest open meadow feature in the original plan for Central Park, New York City, as it was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux.

New York Public Library, 455 West 5th Avenue, Manhattan.   There have been several films shot inside the world famous library including Sex and the City, The Thomas Crown Affair, Ghostbusters and The Day After Tomorrow.

26 New Dock St, Brooklyn.   Nine-acre waterfront park located between the Manhattan Bridge and the Brooklyn Bridge.

MacDougal Street and West 3rd Street, Manhattan.