New York Is The New Toronto

New York is more Boston than Boston (and that’s a good thing?):

Martin Scorsese’s Academy Award-winning film, “The Departed,” was shot mainly in New York, even though it is set in Boston.

And while no scene of “The Good Shepherd,” Robert De Niro’s critically acclaimed movie about the spying game, was set in New York, 80 percent of it was shot here.

Thanks to a 2-year-old tax-credit program, the Big Apple is enjoying a movie production boom.

In 2006, the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting reports, there were 34,178 film-shooting days for 276 films.

That’s a 10 percent increase over 2005, the year the program began, and nearly 50 percent over 2004.

The Apple still runs behind Los Angeles in terms of shooting days. Tinseltown had 55,399 last year.