{"id":955,"date":"2006-04-11T09:46:04","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T17:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/04\/city_offers_reel-lief_to_overshot_neighborhoods.html"},"modified":"2006-04-11T09:46:04","modified_gmt":"2006-04-11T17:46:04","slug":"city_offers_ree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/city_offers_ree.html","title":{"rendered":"City Offers Reel-lief To Overshot Neighborhoods"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ethan Hawke is big. Real big. Or as the Daily News would say, “reel big”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The streets of New York may not be paved with gold, but filmmakers can certainly turn them into green for the city — and often headaches for residents.<\/p>\n

Brooklyn Heights had three film productions going on at the same time last month.<\/p>\n

“That was a lot in the central core of a small neighborhood,” said Judy Stanton, executive director of the Brooklyn Heights Association.<\/p>\n

“We had shooting on the Promenade with Ethan Hawke. He didn’t have big equipment, but he took up all of Remsen St. from Montague Terrace to Clinton St.”<\/p>\n

Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones was nearby making “Mostly Martha,” while parts of “August Rush” were being filmed in two of the neighborhood’s historic churches.<\/p>\n

DUMBO residents have had similar experiences.<\/p>\n

“It culminated with ‘The Forgotten,'” said Nancy Webster, a past president of the DUMBO Neighborhood Association.<\/p>\n

“The chief impact of a crew is they take up lots of parking. For residents who park on the street, that can be a major inconvenience,” Webster said.<\/p>\n

The city’s solution: Give the neighborhoods a time out from film crews.<\/p>\n

To “balance production with the needs of our communities … [the city] will occasionally give neighborhoods that have hosted significant levels of production a short, temporary break from filming,” said Assistant Commissioner Julianne Cho of Mayor Bloomberg’s office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting.<\/p>\n

The break can last up to three months, but is informally bestowed.<\/p>\n

Stanton said Brooklyn Heights did not receive notice of its respite until the association complained.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article misses the real, er, reel story, however, which is Law & Order’s big fat exemption. Those sons a bitches are still everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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