Actor Craig Bierko (Bobby D'Amico) previously played Deputy US Marshal Andy Eckerson on Escape (2003). Eckerson, who seemed to have a previous relationship with Benson, helped SVU track down two escaped fugitives, one of whom kidnapped his own son whom he was falsely accused of raping.
Early in the episode, the "set" Dodds meets Bobby D. on is a real street in Washington Heights called Sylvan Terrace. The twenty wooden townhomes are privately owned residences.