The City of New York from the Twin Towers.
New York City is the largest city of the United States of America and one of the biggest cities in the world. It's the main setting in the second film.
Movie events[]
Pre-Home Alone[]
Rob McCallister and his family were residents of this city, calling it home for years. They lived in a townhouse near Central Park. Later, their eldest child Heather moved to Illinois to attend Northwestern University.
During a summer, Rob was promoted to a new higher post, which included an overseas transfer related to the job. With that, Rob and his family moved to Paris, France from New York, with their firstborn son, Rod, remaining in the United States to finish high school and flying to Ohio to live with the eldest McCallister brother, Frank and his family for such purpose. Despite this, they still maintained ownership of the house.
Home Alone 2[]
The McCallister family were about to go to Miami, Florida. However, Kevin accidentally got separated in the airport while searching for batteries in his father's bag and took the flight to New York after following a man that looked exactly like his father. He discovered that he got his wish once again as he enjoyed the city and stayed at the Plaza Hotel, but soon ran into the same burglars who tried to rob his house in the previous film (and also arrived in New York via a fish truck after escaping from a Chicago prison) after getting caught for using a stolen credit card, and overheard their plans to rob a toy store, which he secretly recorded. Fortunately, the McCallister family (who were staying at the Villa de Dolphiné in Miami) soon discovered that Kevin was found in New York after the police had contacted the McCallister family that they had located Kevin in New York by tracking Peter's credit card, which prompted them to go to New York and confronted the staff of the Plaza Hotel for letting Kevin check-in without an adult and scaring him off before staying at the hotel with Kate searching for Kevin in New York, alone.
Kevin managed to find shelter at an unknown place and upon nightfall, found his uncle's house undergoing renovations. After befriending the Pigeon Lady, Kevin returned to his uncle's house and set up traps to stop the burglars from getting away with their crimes. With the burglars apprehended, Kevin went to the biggest Christmas tree at the Rockefeller Center where his mother found him there after remembering the latter's liking for Christmas trees as the two reconciled before going back to the hotel with Kate telling Kevin that the rest of the family didn't like the palm trees and staying in Florida just like Kevin.
Trivia[]
- Macaulay Culkin and his family were living in New York at the time of production of the first two films.
- Interstate 87 begins in this city's borough of the Bronx, which runs for the entirety in New York all the way to Montreal, Canada.
