Sonny had arranged for Michael to flee to Sicily under the protection of Vito's friend, Don Tommasino. This scene also reveals that Sonny introduced Carlo to Connie, and the rest of the family, which led to their marriage. I remember seeing a Nike missile installation there as a kid, and I thought, “Wow, those Mafia bastards even get Strategic Air Command protection!”. I have many friends who had their cars in the movie.. When you approached the toll you could pay to head south to Jones Beach, or go north up onto the Meadowbrook Parkway away from the beach. Bennett Field is also mentioned by other sources, including a site called District 9 which not only lists the location, but the filming date of June 22, 1971, and the cost of $100,000. It was filmed in Mitchell Field. He also has several mistresses, including his sister Connie's friend Lucy Mancini. It replaced a much smaller older bridge that had opened in 1927. It was a scene that solidified how Michael was far from a person to be taken lightly, as he suddenly stood up and firstly shot Sollozzo. Emilio Barzini, Vito's rival and the power behind Sollozzo, enlists Connie's abusive husband, Carlo Rizzi, to help set a trap. So in the end, if we need a real toll that actually existed for Sonny to have passed through, it would have to be the Loop Parkway toll. Meadowbrook probably only went as far as the Southern State Parkway at the time … and when one refers to the Jones Beach Causeway they mean what eventually became the Wantagh, Sonny may have wanted the Wantagh because it went right up to the Northen State. This ignites the New York underworld's first Mafia war in a decade. i grew up in atlantic beach and immediately thought it looked like the tolls at the loop. The war between the Five Families drags on, and Sonny, unable to break the stalemate, orders bloody raids that earn him a legendary reputation. There was a tiny one car toll gate positioned on the Loop Parkway just before it terminates at the Meadowbrook Parkway not far from Point Lookout. It is east of Mitchell field, west of the Meadowbrook pkwy, north of the Nassau coliseum. There were other tollbooths beside it, but they were staffed only during the day, for heavier traffic. I remember the Loop Parkway tollbooths too from when I was a kid in the 1950s and into the 1960s. I have no doubt about it. And the correct answer is: the Atlantic Beach tolls. This scene was indeed shot in Garden City.

Susan,

ScoutingNY tells us this was where the actual scene was shot.

Left is the Wantagh toll gates in 1954. During a meeting with the other crime family Dons to establish peace, Vito realizes that Barzini masterminded Sonny's murder.

Puzo’s description may have been a little inaccurate, but hey it’s fiction. My father was President of Nassau College from 1965-1979. If Vito’s quiet authority and Sonny’s careless impulsiveness occupy opposite ends of the spectrum of masculinity presented in the film, Michael’s masculinity lies squarely in the middle.
and an access road coming off of it. Since the family lived in Long Beach, the quick parkway route to the city would be via the Loop parkway to Meadowbrook to the city, which is the way author Puzo depicted it in the novel. Far ahead he saw the white cone of the manned tollbooth. Sollozzo proposes that Michael to be sent to promote a truce.

I believe the tolls collected by that booth were to pay for the construction of the Loop roadway and that causeway bridge which I always managed to catch in the up position or about to go up.. It’s one of the most famous death scenes in movie history. In the movie they say they shot Sonny on the Causeway. I also don’t remember paying the toll returning back onto the Loop Parkway, just going from Lido Blvd north to the toll booths. Again, from the book, just after the killing [citation needed], Learn how and when to remove this template message, "Obituary: Bobby Thompson: Baseball player who hit 'the shot heard round the world, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sonny_Corleone&oldid=983872955, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Coppola had the car radio play the broadcast of the baseball playoff game won by, Among the actors auditioning for the role of Michael during casting for, Originally Caan was to be cast as the main character, Sonny's death scene has been parodied several times on, The tollbooth scene was parodied along with the execution montage in the final scene of the, This page was last edited on 16 October 2020, at 19:16. The bays are right behind the bus yard. (Jones Beach Causeway was the old name for the Wantagh Parkway. 0. There is no obvious place it was, the Loop Toll isn’t the causeway either, but its closer to them.
I read on the Wikipedia article for the Shot Heard 'Round the World that Sonny was listening to the broadcast of this baseball game just before he was gunned down. http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3664877568/tt0068646. That puts you right on the Belt Pkwy. OK, I am going to clear this up. As part of the NCC maintenance staff, he was actually on site during the filming of the scene.