Valentine's Day Comes to Lucky 7 / NBC's Mercy

Yesterday. the cast of NBC's Mercy were again busy filming on the streets of Jersey City. Abbey's Pub was dressed up as a restaurant for the shoot, while the characters' favorite hang out, Lucky 7, was done up for Valentine's Day:



It would seem also that Valentine's Day is going to be a bloody one. A motorcade of Jersey City emergency vehicles including police and ambulances from Liberty Medical Center were circling around Second Street in front of the Lucky 7 Tavern for the shoot.

As Seen on TV: Mercy, Episode 2 Locations

Enos Jones Park plays host to the softball team. Just like in the real Jersey City, everyone is drunk while playing softball.



The rear of PS 5 pretends to be the exterior of Mercy Hospital.

Lucky 7, Basic Cafe Star in NBC Drama

Tonight is the premiere of NBC's Mercy, a hospital drama set in a fictional Jersey City hospital. Although the hospital interiors of the show are shot in a vacant Paterson hospital, many scenes from the pilot have been shot in and around downtown Jersey City.

The drama focuses on three nurses. The show opens with Iraq veteran nurse Veronica enjoying a cup of coffee in local cafe, Basic, on the corner of Eighth and Erie. And as happens all too often at Erie Street, two cars slam into each other at the corner, just outside the cafe.

Another familiar spot is Lucky 7, a bar on Second and Coles. The three nurses have a scene sitting on the balcony of the local nightspot; the balcony is not normally open to patrons.

Mercy airs tonight at 8 on NBC.


Basic cafe, where the audience is introduced to Veronica