Fact-based story of top fashion model Gia Marie Carangi (Angelina Jolie) follows her life from a rebel working in her father's diner at age 17 to her death in 1986 at age 26 from AIDS, one of the first women in America whose death was attributed to the disease. In btw, she followed a downward spiral of drug abuse and failed relationships.

East 22nd Street (btw Broadway and Park Avenue) Manhattan.

otsoNY Comments: Although Gia played by Angelina Jolie looks up at 300 Park Avenue and the camera pans across the building expecting her to enter the building, that's as far as this scene goes.

300 Park Avenue and East 22nd Street, Manhattan.

East 64th Street (btw 3rd Avenue and Lexington Avenue) Manhattan.

Gia's Apartment, 76 Irving Place (btw East 18th Street and East 19th Street) Manhattan.

otsoNY Comments: Gantry Plaza State Park is a state park on the East River in the Hunter's Point section of Long Island City, in the New York City borough of Queens. The 10-acre (4.0 ha) park first opened in May 1998 and was expanded in July 2009. The southern portion of the park is a former dock facility and includes restored gantry cranes built in the 1920s to load and unload rail car floats that served industries on Long Island via the Long Island Rail Road tracks that used to run along 48th Avenue (now part of Hunter's Point Park). The northern portion of Gantry Plaza State Park was a former Pepsi bottling plant. The park offers picnic tables, a playground, fishing pier, playing fields and a waterfront promenade with a view of United Nations Headquarters and the midtown Manhattan skyline.

Gantry Plaza State Park, 4-74 48th Avenue. Long Island City.