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Quoted: Brooklyn Paper - City yells “Cut!” on filming in South Williamsburg

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City yells “Cut!” on filming in South Williamsburg

…“A lot of people tend to be a little bit over territorial, but what they don’t realize is that if they can deal with just a little bit of trouble, it will do their neighborhood and the city a whole lot of good,” said location scout Richard Hobbs, who claims that film crews can be a boon for local businesses.

“There are always going to be sensitive areas in the city, but the good thing is that this a big city,” Hobbs added.

“If Williamsburg is on the hot list right now, you go somewhere else.”

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New nyc.locationscout.us Promo Postcard

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Hot off the presses, the new nyc.locationscout.us promo is hittin’ the mail!

The photos on the card are from a location scouting job I did this summer in Red Hook, Brooklyn and a house from my locationfiles.com Locamundo location library in the Houses Locations Album (45953 Montclair, NJ); read more about this home here.

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    Red Hook

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    Recently, while doing some location scouting, I had the opportunity to explore the Brooklyn, NY neighborhood known as Red Hook.

    I just love Red Hook’s textures and colorful past (present and future… ;) so it was hardly “work” having to spend several hours on a gorgeous, clear summer day wandering around Red Hook.

    Wikipedia | Red Hook, Brooklyn

    …Red Hook’s current eclectic mix of living artists and industrial businesses create a neighborhood coined “Residustrial” in 2008 by artist and resident John P. Missale. Red Hook also contains several parks, including Red Hook Park. In the spring of 2006, the new Carnival Cruise Lines Terminal, more formally the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, opened at Pier 12 at Pioneer Street, Red Hook, bringing additional tourists to Brooklyn.

    …read more…

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    Blogmarks for 2008-08-19

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    Location Scouting the Brooklyn Bridge

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    *I just uploaded a bunch of digital panoramic photos of the Brooklyn Bridge to Flickr from a recent location scouting job I did for a Helmut Lotti / Crooners music video shoot that was filmed around New York, NY in June, 2006. Here is one of the set.

    6 Brooklyn Bridge pano

    Content from Brooklyn Bridge, New York (Brooklyn Boro and Manhattan), NY

    Panoramic digital location scouting photos from the <a href="http://tinyurl.com/66qhv4" rel="nofollow">Helmut Lotti / Crooners video shoot</a> produced around New York, NY. All images (c) copyright 2006-2008 R. Richard Hobbs. <a href="http://nyc.locationscout.us" rel="nofollow">nyc.locationscout.us</a>. All rights reserved.

    9 Brooklyn Bridge pano 15 Jul 2006, 12:06 pm

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    9 Brooklyn Bridge pano: panoramic digital location scouting photos from a recent video shoot produced around New York, NY.

    (c) copyright R. Richard Hobbs New York City area film location scout, film location manager, film location library, location and production services for film, photo, video and tv www.rrhobbs.com.

    Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, NY [?]

    Source: Content from Brooklyn Bridge, New York (Brooklyn Boro and Manhattan), NY Content from Brooklyn Bridge, New York (Brooklyn Boro and Manhattan), NY | RRichardHobbs

    11 Brooklyn Bridge pano 15 Jul 2006, 12:06 pm

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    11 Brooklyn Bridge pano: panoramic digital location scouting photos from a recent video shoot produced around New York, NY.

    (c) copyright R. Richard Hobbs New York City area film location scout, film location manager, film location library, location and production services for film, photo, video and tv www.rrhobbs.com.

    Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, NY [?]

    Source: Content from Brooklyn Bridge, New York (Brooklyn Boro and Manhattan), NY Content from Brooklyn Bridge, New York (Brooklyn Boro and Manhattan), NY | RRichardHobbs

    10 Brooklyn Bridge pano 15 Jul 2006, 12:06 pm

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    10 Brooklyn Bridge pano

    10 Brooklyn Bridge pano: panoramic digital location scouting photos from a recent video shoot produced around New York, NY.

    (c) copyright R. Richard Hobbs New York City area film location scout, film location manager, film location library, location and production services for film, photo, video and tv www.rrhobbs.com.

    Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, NY [?]

    Source: Content from Brooklyn Bridge, New York (Brooklyn Boro and Manhattan), NY Content from Brooklyn Bridge, New York (Brooklyn Boro and Manhattan), NY | RRichardHobbs

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    8 Brooklyn Bridge pano: panoramic digital location scouting photos from a recent video shoot produced around New York, NY.

    (c) copyright R. Richard Hobbs New York City area film location scout, film location manager, film location library, location and production services for film, photo, video and tv www.rrhobbs.com.

    Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, NY [?]

    Source: Content from Brooklyn Bridge, New York (Brooklyn Boro and Manhattan), NY Content from Brooklyn Bridge, New York (Brooklyn Boro and Manhattan), NY | RRichardHobbs

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    7 Brooklyn Bridge pano: panoramic digital location scouting photos from a recent video shoot produced around New York, NY.

    (c) copyright R. Richard Hobbs New York City area film location scout, film location manager, film location library, location and production services for film, photo, video and tv www.rrhobbs.com.

    Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, NY [?]

    Source: Content from Brooklyn Bridge, New York (Brooklyn Boro and Manhattan), NY Content from Brooklyn Bridge, New York (Brooklyn Boro and Manhattan), NY | RRichardHobbs

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    2 Brooklyn Bridge pano: panoramic digital location scouting photos from a recent video shoot produced around New York, NY.

    (c) copyright R. Richard Hobbs New York City area film location scout, film location manager, film location library, location and production services for film, photo, video and tv www.rrhobbs.com.

    Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, NY [?]

    Source: Content from Brooklyn Bridge, New York (Brooklyn Boro and Manhattan), NY Content from Brooklyn Bridge, New York (Brooklyn Boro and Manhattan), NY | RRichardHobbs

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    4 Brooklyn Bridge pano: panoramic digital location scouting photos from a recent video shoot produced around New York, NY.

    (c) copyright R. Richard Hobbs New York City area film location scout, film location manager, film location library, location and production services for film, photo, video and tv www.rrhobbs.com.

    Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, NY [?]

    Source: Content from Brooklyn Bridge, New York (Brooklyn Boro and Manhattan), NY Content from Brooklyn Bridge, New York (Brooklyn Boro and Manhattan), NY | RRichardHobbs

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    6 Brooklyn Bridge pano: panoramic digital location scouting photos from a recent video shoot produced around New York, NY.

    (c) copyright R. Richard Hobbs New York City area film location scout, film location manager, film location library, location and production services for film, photo, video and tv www.rrhobbs.com.

    Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, NY [?]

    Source: Content from Brooklyn Bridge, New York (Brooklyn Boro and Manhattan), NY Content from Brooklyn Bridge, New York (Brooklyn Boro and Manhattan), NY | RRichardHobbs

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    3 Brooklyn Bridge pano: panoramic digital location scouting photos from a recent video shoot produced around New York, NY.

    (c) copyright R. Richard Hobbs New York City area film location scout, film location manager, film location library, location and production services for film, photo, video and tv www.rrhobbs.com.

    Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, NY [?]

    Source: Content from Brooklyn Bridge, New York (Brooklyn Boro and Manhattan), NY Content from Brooklyn Bridge, New York (Brooklyn Boro and Manhattan), NY | RRichardHobbs

    1 Brooklyn Bridge pano 15 Jul 2006, 11:40 am

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    1 Brooklyn Bridge pano: panoramic digital location scouting photos from a recent video shoot produced around New York, NY.

    (c) copyright R. Richard Hobbs New York City area film location scout, film location manager, film location library, location and production services for film, photo, video and tv www.rrhobbs.com.

    Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, NY [?]

    Source: Content from Brooklyn Bridge, New York (Brooklyn Boro and Manhattan), NY Content from Brooklyn Bridge, New York (Brooklyn Boro and Manhattan), NY | RRichardHobbs

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    Location Scouting Guerilla Style in Brooklyn

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    NY Times: Have Camera, Will Trespass, on Brooklyn’s Waterfront | By Sewell Chan | July 31, 2008, 11:00 am

    “Nathan Kensinger generally does not ask for permission when he photographs the decaying remnants of Brooklyn’s industrial waterfront. Since 2003, he has wandered into shuttered factories, padlocked basements and forbidding warehouses. He often goes along with other photographers who have an adventurous bent. He hasn’t been arrested, yet, but he doesn’t want to tempt fate, either.”

    …read more…

    In reality, there is quite a bit more to location scouting than just “getting in” a location - in fact, that is just the beginning … Location Scouting at Wikipedia …but, then, the Times story wasn’t really about location scouting anyway, altho, it is mentioned that Nathan is a location scout for Law and Order…

    That said, there is no intent to detract from the motivation and beauty of Nathan’s photography, which is quite impressive!

  • View a slideshow: NY Times | Brooklyn’s Industrial Side | by Nathan Kensinger

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    NY Times: Historic Streets of DUMBO

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    New York Times: Slide Show: Historic Streets of Dumbo | By David W. Dunlap | October 31, 2007, 12:48 pm

    “If there is a signature view of Dumbo, this is it: standing on Washington Street and looking Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass. On Tuesday, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a public hearing on a proposal to designate Dumbo as an official historic district. Here is a slide show of images from the streets of Dumbo.”

    …read more…

    The DUMBO area of Brooklyn is currently one of the most sought after areas of New York City by location scouts / producers / directors / photographers for filming and photography. It’s HOT.

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    Ikea in Red Hook

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    The Brooklyn Paper / May 31, 2008 / News / Not Just Nets / Carroll Gardens–Cobble Hill / Red Hook Ikea / Red Hook Ikea prepares for auto onslaught | By Mike McLaughlin | The Brooklyn Paper

    “Ikea has added hundreds of parking spaces to its Red Hook store in advance of the hotly anticipated opening on Wednesday, June 18, which is expected to draw a cavalcade of shoppers that will continue for months.”

    …read the rest…

    I hereby declare Red Hook “gentrified” with regard, as reported above, that the new Ikea will open June 18th, 2008.

    I have written elsewhere on nyc.locationscout.us about the changing face of Red Hook and other areas in the New York metro. (Take a peak at The Brooklyn Paper’s photo that accompanies the story above - also here is a Google Images search result for “Ikea Red Hook”. My own post mentioned above, Final Days, has photos of the Ikea property when it was the New York Shipyard.

    Arguably, the Shipyard was more fertile ground for location scouts, no?

    …alas, one finds, with the wisdom of age, that the only thing constant in life is change. I’ve tried to learn to accept this and grow from the knowledge.

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    links for 2008-05-20

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    Walking Around NY Photo Festival

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    This past week was NY Photo Festival, May 14 - 18, based in the DUMBO area of Brooklyn / NYC, NY.

    I wrote a post about NY Photo Festival 2008 elsewhere on nyc.locationscout.us.

    DUMBO is beginning to look more like Soho than, well, DUMBO ;-)

    Ever the location scout, I was pleased to discover a number of attractive event venues around Dumbo, many which, such as St. Ann’s Warehouse, were being used to present the photo exhibits associated with NY Photo Festival. Another event venue used by NY Photo Festival was Galapagos Art Space, but I was already familiar with that space.

    I’ve parsed out my Flickr feed of a few snaps I shot with my trusty, rusty Leica D-Lux3 below…

    • The carousel is new - at least to me… it’s very kewl - ANY carousel is kewl, no?
    • I like the new mural(s) the graffiti artists were still hard at work on the one…
    • …old standbys, the Manhattan Bridge and Fulton Ferry Landing…
      feed Content from DUMBO Brooklyn - NY Photo Festival 2008
      • L1010751 | Saturday, 17 May 2008, 10:44 pm
        RRichardHobbs posted a photo: new mural in DUMBO Brooklyn, NY under the Brooklyn Bridge - from NYPhoto Festival 2008 DUMBO, Brooklyn, New York City, N. […]
      • L1010750 | Saturday, 17 May 2008, 10:44 pm
        RRichardHobbs posted a photo: Manhattan Bridge from DUMBO, Brooklyn (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) - from NYPhoto Festival 2008 DUMBO, Bro. […]
      • L1010755 | Saturday, 17 May 2008, 10:44 pm
        RRichardHobbs posted a photo: graffiti artists at work - *without* fear of reprisal - from NYPhoto 2008 in DUMBO Brooklyn, NY - from NYPhoto Festival. […]


      NY Photo Festival

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    links for 2008-05-18

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    I’ve Been Schmapped

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    Update 4/27/2008:

    “You’ve been sent a Flickr Mail from Emma J. Williams:
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    :: Schmap East Coast Second Edition: Photo Inclusion

    Hi nyc.locationscout.us,

    I am delighted to let you know that your submitted photo has been selected for inclusion in the newly released second edition of our Schmap East Coast Guide:

    Brooklyn Bridge:
    http://www.schmap.com/eastcoast/attractions/p=5442/i=5442.jpg

    If you like the guide and have a website, blog or personal page, then please also check out the customizable widgetized versions of our Schmap East Coast Guide, complete with your published photo:
    http://www.schmap.com/guidewidgets/p=21598829N00/c=SG33061032

    Thanks so much for letting us include your photo - please enjoy the guide!

    Best regards,

    Emma Williams,
    Managing Editor, Schmap Guides”

    From:

    Emma J. Williams

    Subject:

    Schmap: East Coast Photo Short-list
     

    Hi Richard,

    “I am writing to let you know that one of your photos has been short-listed for inclusion in the second edition of our Schmap East Coast Guide, to be published at the end of this month.

    www.schmap.com/shortlist/p=21598829N00/c=SG33061566

    Clicking this link will take you to a page where you can:
    i) See which of your photos has been short-listed.

    ii) Submit or withdraw your photo from our final selection phase.
    iii) Learn how we credit photos in our Schmap Guides.
    iv) Browse the first edition of our Schmap East Coast Guide.

    While we offer no payment for publication, many photographers are pleased to submit their photos, as Schmap Guides give their work recognition and wide exposure, and are free of charge to readers. Photos are published at a maximum width of 150 pixels, are clearly attributed, and link to high-resolution originals at Flickr.

    Our submission deadline is Sunday, April 13. If you happen to be reading this message after this date, please still click on the link above (our Schmap Guides are updated frequently - photos submitted after this deadline will be considered for later releases).

    Best regards,
    Emma Williams, Managing Editor, Schmap Guides”

    I let em have it…

    Here is the photo they want…

    8 Brooklyn Bridge pano

    WTF… it is a photo from location scouting for Helmut Lotti’s Crooners - it’s not finished “art” like I shot it for an ad job for big bux - heck, I stuck it up on Flickr for the PR value - you know what? - paid off.

    Ok, well, I don’t know about *paid* off - no money changed hands, but it was very little investment of extra time and effort on my part

    …Brooklyn Bridge elsewhere on this website…

    updated 4/27/2008 | April 6, 2008 at 10:04 pm | original timestamp: April 3, 2008 at 11:53 pm


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    Info Every Film Production Coming to New York City Needs

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    If you are planning on shooting on location on New York City city property (i.e. streets / sidewalks / curb spaces or if you are shooting on private property and will be running cable across same …or need to clear parking…) in New York City (which includes the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island), you will need a City of New York Mayor’s Office of Film Theatre & Broadcasting (MOFTB) film permit. You should probably hire a local location scout or location manager to complete this paperwork for you.

    In many instances location scouting, including checking availability of parking and local parking regulations, existence of schools, hospitals, churches, fire dept. / police stations etc in the area, availability of holding areas as well as other details is an appropriate and necessary step in the preproduction process. Consult with your location scout or location manager for professional, knowledgeable advice regarding these matters.

    Currently, there are a few documents that location scout or location manager will need for you to complete that will contain basic info he / she needs to get you going as well as info you need:

  • Certificate of Insurance | The wording needs to be pretty exact, per the linked info. Best to check and make sure your insurance agent did it right! MOFTB will NOT issue a film permit unless your certificate of insurance is on file with their office and complies with their requirements.
  • Keys to the City | This is a form that MUST be signed and returned to MOFTB.

    • You should also call MOFTB at 1-212-489-6710 and request a Hotzone List, which is a frequently updated list of areas in New York City where filming is currently restricted or prohibited.

    Permits are also currently required for pretty much any sort of photography on city property beyond general tourist photography (i.e. tripod / lights / additional crew / talent, etc.)

    The MOFTB website contains complete information needed for obtaining film permits as well as Parks Film Permits, including Central Park

    Download: Insurance Requirements, Keys to the City, General Parks Guidelines and Central Park Guidelines - pdf’s in a .zip file (496kb).

    Hey, guess what?

  • Film Permits in NYC are FREE!
  • NYC offers FREE Police Assistance
  • NYC is, if not THE safest, one of the safest large cities in the U.S.

    • gotta LOVE it! :-)

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    links for 2008-04-17

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    Links for April 2nd

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    These are my del.icio.us links for April 2nd:


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    Brooklyn - Queens Expressway (BQE)

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    The nyc.locationscout.us header photograph (also shown below) depicts part of the elevated roadway section of the Brooklyn - Queens Expressway (BQE or I-278) from ground level along northern Hamilton Avenue in Brooklyn that follows underneath the route of the BQE for a distance as they both snake thru Brooklyn, NY.

    As its name suggests, the BQE is an expressway that connects the New York City boroughs (or “boros”) of Brooklyn and Queens.

    On a recent location scouting assignment that included the adventure of driving multiple times all over many sections of Brooklyn and Queens, while passing by the area shown (as well as other sections of the BQE viewable from underneath), I was somehow taken the by the graphic juxtaposition of the graceful curve(s) of the road the BQE creates as it meanders along overhead and enormity of the trusses against the general grittiness and otherwise nondescript “ordinariness” of the many industrial areas underneath the BQE.* For me, the drizzly, gray, overcast day adds to the moodiness and melancholy - but I would love to have an opportunity to go back on a clear day, maybe a very late afternoon or early morning - maybe there are long streaks of sunlight that come streaming thru the trusses and create patterns of light and shadow on the environment below?

    *The necessary cropping of the header photo from the original does little highlight these features - I believe the original composition illustrates it much better, so the original is included below:

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    BQE from Hamilton Ave in Brooklyn, NY

    Click either image for a better view

    The BQE roadway up top is what you would expect on a major thoroughfare thru a very large city - multiple lanes and possible potholes, not as rough as that icon of bad road, BQE’s evil sister, the Cross Bronx Expressway - at various times traffic (usually) moving at a brisk pace, during which there will be the usual hot-doggers and tail-gaters, other times slowed to a crawl such as in the thick of weekday rush hours, accidents, construction or “police activity”. …lots of photos taken along the BQE…

    From a location scout’s or a filmmaker’s point of view, my synopsis of the BQE would be, “urban, gritty, iconic New York City outer boros or ‘Manhattan-from-a-distance’ (some very impressive skyline views of Manhattan can be experienced while travelling on the elevated sections of the BQE…)”; you see more rooftops of 3-4 story buildings typical of many residential areas of New York City (which, if you didn’t know, includes the 5 boros of Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island…) than you can shake a stick at - ..”tar beaches“, boiler / furnace vents, all manner of rickety - looking tv antennae of every size cocked at every angle, satellite dishes, power and telephone wires, items tossed onto the roofs and forgotten about: shoes, soft drink cans / bottles, items of clothing, balls, etc… all of course covered with layers of soot and grime from oil furnaces and the daily exhaust of thousands of automobiles and trucks passing by…

    From a production logistics point of view, other than low or non-impact vehicle-to-vehicle “running shots” or vehicle-to-environment (typically establishing shots or b-roll), actually filming on the BQE would seem to be a proposition that, while not necessarily impossible would likely be met initially with some hesitance by the many entities likely to be required to cooperate and assist, all the way from U.S. Department of Transportation (the BQE (I-278) is a spur of interstate highway I-78 and therefore under federal jurisdiction…) to likely the New York State Department of Transportation, New York City Department of Transportation, New York State Police, definitely the New York State Film Office, New York City Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater and Broadcast (MOFTB) and probably New York City Police Department Special Operations / TV / Movie Unit (if for no other reason than to possibly coordinate local traffic on city streets with regard to exits / on-ramps to / from the BQE on-ramp / exit ramps to / from local city streets). …and this is probably not a complete list…

    If allowed at all, filming would likely be required to occur on a day or night of lowest anticipated vehicle traffic and impact on day-to-day normal activity, i.e. perhaps a very early Sunday morning or “apres” hours late evening and filming would likely need to be coordinated to allow one or more lanes of traffic to be either open at all times or quickly opened as needed so as to allow traffic to pass thru or around the set periodically - no filmmaker, photographer, producer or location manager should ever dream they are going to completely “own” a stretch of high volume interstate / inner city expressway for any extended length of time.

    Suggestion: allow plenty of lead time for preproduction - expect lots of film permits and paperwork, hire the best location manager and location scouts you can find, be prepared to make lots of concessions in the interest of the welfare of the general public… and - oh, yeah… - bring a checkbook ;-)

    At least one feature film is mentioned prominently as featuring the BQE - 1990’s Quick Change:

    …via Wikipedia: Brooklyn - Queens Expressway…

    “Motorists may encounter difficulity finding an entrance onto the BQE from Brooklyn side streets, as illustrated in the 1990 movie, Quick Change, starring Bill Murray. Murray and his cohorts escape from their Manhattan bank robbery in their getaway car, only to take the wrong turn from the BQE — they are unable to get back on. Murray finds a sign reading “To I-278,” but the arrow at the bottom of the sign rotates around, and around. The Brooklyn Queens Expressway is infamous for rush hour traffic congestion.”

    I-278 BQE US DOT signage
    Original graphic from Wikimedia Commons

    Additional Linkage:

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  • BQE Watch Blog
  • BQE at Gowanus Lounge
  • Bridge and Tunnel Club
  • Old NYC BQE in DUMBO Virtual Tour
  • BQE at StreetsBlog
  • Google Search using terms “Brooklyn - Queens Expressway” and “film location”


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    Location Scouting in Hoboken, NJ

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    Recently, I was hired to location scout in Hoboken, NJ for an upcoming UK tv program and it was an opportunity for me to explore an interesting city I have lived within 20 minutes or so of for about 15 years but never really spent much time in, other than to pass thru on the NJ Transit train to get to the PATH train, (which runs under the Hudson River) to travel into New York City.

    Besides being chock full of local NYC area history and home and birthplace to many interesting people (including Frank Sinatra), Hoboken has somewhat recently morphed from a gritty harbor town into an elegant urban enclave- but with enough of the gritty edges left over to maintain a contrast of lifestyles and visual texture.

    A few interesting facts about Hoboken (with a little help and thanks to The Hoboken Museum, Wikipedia, IMDB and other resources):

    The name Hoboken is derived from the Dutch word, “Hoebuck,” meaning “high bluff.”

    Hoboken is known as the “Mile Square Town”; if you look at a map of the town you will see that it is laid out pretty much in a neat square shape. BTW, here’s another map of Hoboken.

    Hoboken’s institute of higher learning, Stevens Institute of Technology, is named after patriot Colonel John Stevens, Colonial Treasurer of New Jersey and later innovative inventor. The college is located on the bluff which rises sharply up from the Hudson River’s edge, and is one of the many bluffs in the area from which the town name was derived.

    The Academy Award-winning movie, “On The Waterfront“, starring Marlon Brando and directed by Elia Kazan and which premiered in 1954, was filmed in Hoboken.

    American baseball was “born” in Hoboken! this from the Hoboken Baseball website:

    “On 19 June 1846, the first officially recorded, organized baseball match was played under Alexander Joy Cartwright’s rules on Hoboken’s Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1. Cartwright umpired.”

    ~ . ~


    View a Flickr slideshow of Hoboken

    Castle Point, Hoboken, NJ

    (above) On Sinatra Drive near the Castle Point Pier on the Hoboken Hudson River waterfront. The Verrazano Bridge, connecting Brooklyn, NY and Staten Island, NY can be seen in the background, some 10 miles SE downriver.

    Location scouting photographs of Hoboken at Flickr

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    1 Sinatra Drive Hoboken, NJ, which runs north and south along the waterfront in Hoboken, NJ is nowadays lined with genteel condos, bistros and shops, a contrast to the area’s history in that at, one time, it was a bustling, rough, rugged shipping wharf.

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    15 Monroe St in Hoboken, NJ, birthplace of Frank Sinatra, circa Summer, 2006. The building where Frank Sinatra was born burned down some years ago and there is now a vacant lot there. Next door is an homage museum to Sinatra, named "From Here to Eternity", but it is closed, I was told the owner of the museum had recently passed away.

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    About Brownstoner

    “Brownstoner.com is a site about Brooklyn real estate and renovation, and all the tangential topics that impact life inside and outside the home in Brooklyn. Launched in October 2004 by Jonathan Butler, the site currently has about 100,000 unique visitors per month.”

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    A production associate friend, William Voermann (Brooklyn, NY) (IMDB) recently emailed me about a music video he was a part of, Know One by Prez Powerz. Looks Great Billy- good job!

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  • …yet another Videology-TV find…
  • Jeffrey Lewis’s Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror
  • As published on Director Mark Locke’s website (higher res)
  • Also published on youtube

    • In addition to generally being a very fun-to-watch music video, it’s also very kewl that it was filmed locally around New York City and Brooklyn / Williamsburg, familiar filming locations abound!

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    GoodWidgets

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    GoodWidgets is a site where you can build a number of photo album widgets using photos from popular photo services. A location scout might find this useful to present an album of location photos like this - my photo set of the Brooklyn Bridge at Flickr:

    About Good Widgets | They’re not bad.

    “Here at Good Widgets we follow a strict bad widget non-proliferation policy. Our widgets are nurtured and given the proper care to ensure maximum goodness. Made from only the finest of technologies, our widgets exceed even our high expectations.”

    …read more…

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    Final Days

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    “A Last Look Inside the Revere Sugar Refinery” …in Red Hook, Brooklyn, that is.

    via Gothamist and BlueJake:

    “Another photographer and I visited the Revere Sugar Refinery on Sunday, the day before real demolition began. We documented the interior of the iconic cone, and explored throughout the buildings in the complex. If you are interested in doing an article about our visit to the place, please contact me. You can see our photos here:

  • Revere Sugar Refinery photos
  • Mercurian’s Revere Sugar Refinery photos

    • Our best shot of Revere can be found at BlueJake.”

    You really have to see their photos of the Revere Sugar Refinery to appreciate this post.

    I have location scouted this place, as have many other New York City area location scouts over the years since the sugar refinery ceased refining operations. I dont know exactly when it closed for refining business, but it was definitely before my time.

    One of the interesting details I remember about the sugar refinery is the sunken ship. I wonder what has/will become of the sunken ship?

    I have my OWN photos of the sugar refinery “somewhere” from when I was last there in, maybe like, 1999 (?)

    In 1999 most of us still did our location scouting with film cameras and color prints (we are all pretty much all digital now) and when I put my location scouting folder together, like a good location scout, I gave all my photos to the photographer I was working for. The irony is, that same photographer decided to do some spring-cleaning a year or so back and asked me if I wanted their location library (which I was delighted to get, even tho it was three giant banker boxes full of of manila folders and prints!)

    …so I have the pics- “somewhere”.

    I never went back to the sugar refinery because, maybe a year after the first time I was there I called to make an appointment to location scout it for another job and the cranky old security guard (what was that guy’s name?) He was there just about every day for years.

    …but I digress- I called the guy and he told me he wasnt doing any more location scout tours, the location scouts “wasted all his time and never booked shoots there” (like he had somewhere else to be?)

    Anyway after that I wrote off the sugar refinery as a waste of research time and never called them again although I did hear, sometime later, maybe earlier in 2006(?), that the sugar refinery was tourable and shootable.

    All of which is pretty much moot; according to Jake Dobkin, “The iconic dome of Red Hook’s Revere Sugar Refinery will probably disappear sometime in the next couple of weeks.”

    …which is a shame to a location scout like myself- We location scouts survive by continually being able to pull visually interesting places such as the sugar refinery out of our hats for film directors and photographers; so, a landmark such as the Revere Sugar Refinery being demolished always makes my job just a little harder.

    It’s been a tough past year or so… Admittedly, my vision of the state-of-affairs-for-old-ruined-property-around-New-York-City is skewed :

    Another Red Hook icon, The New York Shipyard, went away in 2005. I blogged about it here.

    There was a BIG, very suspicious fire in Greenpoint this past summer that took a significant portion of the Greenpoint Terminal.

    Sometimes you just want a little grunge in your life!

    St Francis Hospital in Jersey City, NJ didnt really fall into the category of “old-ruined-property-around-New-York-City”, in fact, it was pretty convincing for a film location as a modern hospital. Saint Francis Hospital was recently sold to real estate developers. Reportedly it will be demolished and condos built in it’s place.

    LOL

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    New NYC Parks Film Procedure

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    It used to be when you wanted to film in New York City Parks (i.e. Central Park, Prospect Park (Brooklyn), etc, you had to do a little detective work to find the number for the manager of the park in question (short of having an (as far as I know) unpublished list of the different districts and the managers of the parks in those districts) and call that manager for verbal permission to film in the park which he/she managed.

    Assuming you could track him/her down and get an answer to your request (this could traditionally sometimes take several days from my experience- woe if they were on vacation or otherwise out of the office) and get permission, you would then go to the NYC Mayors Office of Film, Theater and Broadcast (MOFTB) and add the location to your film permit.

    Today, I called one of the park managers about filming in one the NYC Parks and got the ol’ voicemail, which instructed me to go to this webpage:

    http://nyc.gov/html/dpr/html/film_shoot_form.html

    So, I filled the form and submitted it over the internet. The form sent me an auto-email confirming my request and even assigned it a request number. The form goes to either a central party in charge of routing the requests, or possibly a database that automates this chore.

    I’m keeping an eye on my email at this point waiting to get a response. *Follow-up Note*: The park manager that I needed an answer from called me for more details and approved my request within 24 hours.

    Presumably, this form covers all the parks in the system. It seems a much more organized way to go about the Parks permitting procedure; it gives the park manager(s) a little breathing room to get their head in a space to deal with their request(s) instead of being bugged on the phone at inopportune times and/or having to scroll thru and listen to who knows how many voicemail messages to field filming requests in addition to what must be a myriad of other responsibilities that a New York City Parks Manager must have.

    I’ll still have to take my permission (assuming they give me a green light for my request) to the permit office and add it to my Schedule “A”. It would be nice to be able to cut out this second step, but the two departments (the parks department and the permit office) need a way to talk to each other, so for now this a chore we’ll all have to live with.

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    A New York Location Scouting Story

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    New York Times | Lights! Camera! Action! Location Fees! | By LISA PREVOST | Published: February 16, 2003

    “LOCATION scouts in search of houses for use in television commercials often check in with Iris G. Stevens, director of the Westchester County Film Office. Ms. Stevens has a stack of photographs of 100-plus homes available as shooting sites.”

    …read more…

    I call Iris at the Westchester County Film Office all the time for ideas and for guidance regarding filming in various towns and neighborhoods under her jurisdiction.

    The Westchester County Film Office is a font of information and assistance for Westchester County; anyone that is a location scout, location manager or production coordinator that does not take advantage of Westchester Film’s service is ignoring an extremely valuable resource.

    The article continues with a short interview with Katherine Oliver, Commissioner of the New York City Mayors Office of Film, Theater and Broadcast (MOFTB), Guy Ortoleva, Executive Director of the Connecticut Film, Video and Media Office and Betty Rankin, of Betty Rankin Locations as well as anecdotes from several fellow local location scout/managers, including Gary Handel, who also happens to own Gary’s Lofts, a well-known Brooklyn filming location. (btw, Gary apparently has done so well with his loft that he has expended into several other properties in Manhattan).

  • Check out Gary’s site.

    • Even though the above mentioned newspaper article is several years old, there are a number of useful pieces of film location related info contained therein of potential interest to production personnel and local property owners alike. (Be sure and make note of the discussion regarding “the zone“)

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