Malcolm X
Spike Lee shot the exterior of the real Audubon Ballroom for the film's assassination sequence; the ballroom interior was built elsewhere.
Audubon Ballroom exterior, 3940 Broadway at W 165th St
In a production-designer interview, Wynn Thomas says Lee wanted to shoot at the Audubon Ballroom where Malcolm X was killed and the exterior was used, visible when the wounded Malcolm is rushed across the street to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. The interior was too deteriorated, so it was recreated in a ballroom at the Hotel Diplomat on W 43rd St. The film as a whole was shot largely elsewhere in New York and abroad; only the Audubon Ballroom exterior is the local tie. Müuse’s Washington Heights page gives the address as 3940 Broadway near W 165th St.