Crime Alley

Location	Theatre District, Gotham City
Use	Street
Owner	Fish Mooney (formerly)

Crime Alley is the location where the Wayne murders took place.

History

Whilst cutting through the alley after watching a movie, Thomas Wayne, his wife Martha, and their son Bruce were stopped in their tracks by a masked gunman, who ordered the pair to hand over their belongings. Despite them complying, the gunman opened fire on the pair of them, killing them outright, much to the shock of Bruce. The gunman briefly pointed his gun at Bruce, but then proceeded to leave. The Gotham City Police Department investigated the crime scene, and detective Jim Gordon comforted Bruce before his butler and newly assigned guardian Alfred Pennyworth came to pick him up. Unknown to everyone at the time, a homeless girl named Selina Kyle was a witness to the crime.

Years later, Jeremiah Valeska attempted to force Bruce to relive the night his parents were murdered by plotting to shoot dead Gordon and Lee Thompkins, who were hypnotized to believe they were Thomas and Martha. Having previously not done anything to prevent the Wayne murders, this time Selina intervened in stopping Jeremiah from killing Gordon and Lee, which forced Jeremiah to flee the scene.

Appearances

Season 1 "Pilot" "Selina Kyle" (photograph) "The Balloonman" "Arkham" (flashback) Season 2 "Rise of the Villains: The Last Laugh" (mentioned) "Wrath of the Villains: Transference" (flashback) Season 3 "Heroes Rise: These Delicate and Dark Obsessions" (flashback) "Heroes Rise: Light The Wick" (flashback) Season 4 "A Dark Knight: The Demon's Head" (map) "A Dark Knight: A Beautiful Darkness" (hallucination) "A Dark Knight: No Man's Land" (map) Season 5 "Legend of the Dark Knight: Ace Chemicals" "Legend of the Dark Knight: The Beginning..." (mentioned) Novels Gotham: Dawn of Darkness Gotham: City of Monsters

Notes

• In DC Comics, Crime Alley (or Park Row) was the place where Thomas and Martha Wayne were murdered by Joe Chill. It is located in Uptown Gotham near the Monarch Theater. Crime Alley was created by Dennis O'Neil and Dick Giordano, first appearing in Detective Comics #457 (March 1976).
• The Wayne's death is a historical and almost universal event that takes place, thus making Crime Alley a universal place alongside it.
• Gotham marked the first time Crime Alley appeared in a live-action television series.
• Cortlandt Alley in the Tribeca-Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City was used as a filming location for the Crime Alley scenes in Gotham.