Where Is the Iconic New York Location of Nicki Minaj's Intimate VMAs/PEPSI® Remote Performance?

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If you’ve been wondering whether Nicki Minaj will be present at this year’s VMAs, the answer is yes and no. How? She’ll be there, sort of, in that she is performing during the awards show, but she won’t physically be there, because she’ll be performing from some other place. Which place? No place. And every place.

A press release for the artist’s super-secret surprise performance (presented by PEPSI®) states Nicki’s face will be streamed from an “ICONIC NEW YORK LOCATION” to the millions of people who still watch the VMAs. Hmm, not very helpful. But we have a few hints: It’s iconic, and it’s in New York. Let’s see if we can narrow this down.

Various members of the Jezebel staff have suggested:

Union Square Sephora
The Zara where Joanna once saw a cockroach
The public bathroom at Bryant Park
The Cloisters
Staten Island Ferry
The purgatorial mezzanine between the West 4th A/C/E and the West 4th B/D/F/M
The Verrazano Bridge
The 8th St NYU R/W Train, Site of the Iconic Pizza Rat Sighting
Coraline’s or whatever the Media Bar is
Mr. Kiwi’s
Market Hotel
A Regular Ass Venue
The Best Buy Theatre
Tip of Lady Lib’s torch
Wooden escalator in Midtown Macys
The Pepsi (TM) sign in Times Square
Outside David Schwimmer’s East Village condo
Brooklyn Polytech
The Berkowitz School of Electrolysis in Forest Hills, Queens
The Soho Wing
The Dumbo Wing
Scores, aka the future location of a Wing
Pumps
The Fearless Girl statue site
Sripraphai, but NOT the one in Queens, the one in Williamsburg
The platforms they don’t use at 2nd Ave that you look at and are like “Hmmmm”