{"id":5372,"date":"2009-09-11T08:18:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T13:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5372"},"modified":"2009-09-11T08:18:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T13:18:55","slug":"new_york_as_giant_soundstage_for_bloombergs_alternate_reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/09\/new_york_as_giant_soundstage_for_bloombergs_alternate_reality.html","title":{"rendered":"New York As Giant Soundstage For Bloomberg&#8217;s Alternate Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And we all become extras in campaign ads, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/real_estate\/2009\/09\/11\/2009-09-11_bloombergs_campaign_pays_3000_to_use_queens_mans_home.html\">our homes turned into locations for shoots<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Hizzoner wanted a blue-collar house in Queens for his newest TV ad &#8212; and paid an eye-popping Manhattan rent to use it Thursday for just seven hours.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg&#8217;s campaign shelled out $3,000 to a Forest Hills homeowner to shoot scenes in the garage, living room and bathroom of his 2-1\/2-story, single-family residence on a tree-lined block.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>[The homeowner] wouldn&#8217;t say how much he was paid. But location scout Robert Chemtob, who was hired by Epand Media to find a working-class home for the mayor&#8217;s ad, estimated the fee at $3,000.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>[The homeowner] insisted he didn&#8217;t know the content of the ad.<\/p>\n<p>Chemtob would only say it included a scene with a man singing in the shower. He said the spot is expected to hit airwaves in a few weeks.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And we all become extras in campaign ads, and our homes turned into locations for shoots: Hizzoner wanted a blue-collar house in Queens for his newest TV ad &#8212; and paid an eye-popping Manhattan rent to use it Thursday for just seven hours. Bloomberg&#8217;s campaign shelled out $3,000 to a Forest Hills homeowner to shoot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i_dont_care_if_youre_filming_youre_in_my_goddamn_way","category-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5373,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions\/5373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}