S4 Filming — Convent Ave, Harlem (Fan-spotted)
318 Convent Ave, Hamilton Heights, Harlem
About This Location
Reddit user u/quirkytortle walked past a row of townhouses on Convent Avenue in Harlem and spotted production crews unloading furniture into a brownstone. Crucially, the furniture was labelled "Peggy NY house" — confirming this as the filming location for Peggy Scott's New York home in Season 4. Additional boxes were marked "Fane," which may indicate a new character or storyline.
In a separate sighting, Reddit user u/Intrepid_Listen_9179 spotted filming signs at 145th Street and St Nicholas Avenue announcing production scheduled for April 1, 2026. This location is just two blocks from the Convent Avenue sighting, further confirming this Harlem corridor as a key Season 4 filming zone.
Peggy Scott, played by Denée Benton, is one of the series' central characters — an aspiring journalist and writer navigating both the Black elite and white high society of 1880s New York. The choice to film her home scenes on Convent Avenue is historically resonant: this stretch of Hamilton Heights was home to many prominent Black professionals and intellectuals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Multiple fan sightings: u/quirkytortle spotted furniture marked "Peggy NY house" on Convent Ave (March 2026); u/Intrepid_Listen_9179 saw filming signs at 145th & St Nicholas (April 2026). Two independent sources strengthen confidence.
About Convent Avenue
Convent Avenue takes its name from the Convent of the Sacred Heart, which occupied the hilltop site now home to City College of New York. The residential rowhouses that line the street were built in the 1880s and 1890s as Hamilton Heights developed into an affluent neighborhood. The blocks between 140th and 145th Streets were designated a New York City historic district, preserving one of Manhattan's most cohesive collections of Romanesque Revival and Renaissance Revival brownstones. By the early 20th century, the neighborhood became a center of Black cultural and intellectual life — W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall, and Duke Ellington all lived nearby. For the show's purposes, the intact 1880s architecture makes it an ideal stand-in for the world Peggy Scott would have inhabited.
Fan Sightings
Spotted by u/quirkytortle on Reddit — View original post
"I walked past a row of houses in Harlem today, and saw folks unloading furniture into a townhouse! A lot of the furniture was marked 'Peggy NY house' and some boxes were marked 'Fane.' Super excited to see what happens! On Convent Ave around 143/142!"
Spotted by u/Intrepid_Listen_9179 on Reddit — View original post
"Saw signs today on a walk that said there were filming tomorrow (4/1) at 145th and St Nicholas!"
In the Press
Harlem filming for Season 4 was covered by Time Out New York, which noted costumed actors filming on St. Nicholas Ave and Convent Ave.