Helmsley Building - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

• One of the promotional posters for the 2008 film The Dark Knight shows the building with an explosion the shape of the Batman emblem on its upper floors.
• The building is shown as one of the skyscrapers still standing in the movie A.I. Artificial Intelligence.
• It was also used as one of the New York City filming locations for the non-narrative film Baraka.
• An interior boardroom was used in The Godfather, as the location of an important meeting between New York's Five Families, to show their influence in society. Railroad murals can be seen behind the actors. However, the exterior used for the shot was the Federal Reserve Bank of New York building at 33 Liberty Street.
• In Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, the Helmsley Building is described as the Taggart Transcontinental Railroad Building, office of the protagonist of the novel, Dagny Taggart.