Joe Gower's (Judge Reinhold) job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance performance. Gower agrees to take his place in the show by posing as a police officer. He falls for a female officer in the show and gets into various scrapes with fellow cops and also crooks. And he dances.

New York Public Library, 5th Avenue (btw 40th and 42nd Street) Manhattan.

Katz's Delicatessen, 205 East Houston Street and Ludlow 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.

River Diner, 11th Avenue and West 37th Street, Manhattan.   The River Diner was demolished in March 2004.

West Houston Street (btw Mercer Street and Broadway) Manhattan.

Manhattan Bridge Lower Roadway and Bowery, Manhattan.

Bandshell, Central Park (from 66th to 72nd Street) Manhattan.

Bethesda Terrace (Mid-Park at 72nd Street) Central Park, Manhattan.   Bethesda Terrace has two levels. The upper terrace flanks the 72nd Street Cross Drive and the lower terrace provides a podium for viewing the Lake. The fountain is the central feature on the lower level of the terrace.

Pathway (near Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir) Central Park, Manhattan.