I have seen the below balcony in many movies.
Is it an actual place? Where is it?
In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows:
In Men in Black 3:
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Sign up to join this communityWhether each of those shots is real or a model on green screen is probably not at issue.
The building itself is real. It's the Chrysler Building, on Manhattan Island, New York City.
I guess the reasons it appears so often in movies are
It could be one of the most photogenic buildings in existence. There aren't too many true art deco skyscrapers around.
It's got gargoyles and a hell of a drop!
Even if they're not on the building itself, they sure do like to show it in the background…
Just for a bit of added anecdote and because I love this photo, this is Oscar Graubner's picture of the building's official photographer — Margaret Bourke-White atop the Chrysler Building c. 1934.
This one is definitely not done on green screen!
After comments:
She's holding her camera — they didn't have iPhones in those days ;)
Here's another pic showing greater detail. For the camera buffs, I think it might be a Graflex*, an early SLR [Single Lens Reflex] camera, which is why she looks into the top of it to see out of the actual lens on the front, but I'm really not certain of the model…
* Link is to Google Images search