Popular Culture
Many scenes of the Bruce Willis and Sarah Jessica Parker police drama Striking Distance were filmed both inside and on the Grant Street entrance to the building. Most notable is the nighttime scene of Dennis Farina's supervisor character arguing with Willis' "Tom Hardy" over the "Polish Hill" documents. Lorenzo's Oil used the building to shoot scenes depicting Johns Hopkins Hospital. Scenes of the Superman remake Superman Returns were slated to be filmed in the building's "crystal palace" grand mezzanine but the film production was delayed by Warner Brothers and the scenes were never added to the finished film. The USA Network show Suits used the Grant Street exterior for establishing shots in 2011. The very first film to feature the City Hall however was produced in the first decade after its completion. In the Name of the Law starred Pittsburgh Pirates great and future Hall of Famer Honus Wagner as the hero, as a Pittsburgh Police Superintendent pitched baseballs off the 144-foot-high roof in the film's climax.
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