Production designer Alex Digerlando gives a tour of the Black Rabbit set and explains how he recreated 279 Water Street (the oldest wood building in NYC, built in 1794). The set includes five working fireplaces and a working restaurant kitchen. Set decorator Lydia Marks reveals that the bar consists of real bottles that they bought and emptied (they then had to recreate the correct colors of the alcohol).

Part of the building was once a brothel so they used E.J. Bellocq's photographs of New Orleans sex workers in the early 1900s as the artwork in the restaurant. Another photo they used is of Gallus Mag, the first known female bouncer at the Hole in the Wall, a pirate bar that existed at 279 Water Street during the 19th century. The set decorators also included lots of various rabbit artwo

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