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The bright lights and craft services tables have worn out their welcome in DUMBO. The Mayor's Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting have put a moratorium on production in the neighborhood. Current productions are allowed to finish. Driven by its "gritty urban realism, old factory buildings and sweeping views of Manhattan and the East River," DUMBO has been the go-to NY location for many production companies, but its popularity brings the conundrum of simultaneously wanting Hollywood money injected into NYC's economy but not wanting the quality of life to diminish with street detours, cranky PAs (who are very nice about letting Gothamist know what's filming), and mobs of people. One crazy instance of DUMBO filming is a car commercial that transformed a street into the desert, but against the Manhattan skyline, needing tons of sand. Gotta love art directors and the clients that buy off on the ideas.
Filming in DUMBO: The Sopranos, Stay (with Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts), The Forgotten (with Julianne Moore and Gary Sinise)
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i work in DUMBO, and while i never tire of gazing out my window at lower manhattan, the statue of liberty, the brooklyn bridge, fireboats, etc., sometimes it's a nice change of pace to watch the filming of a car chase for 'third watch'. but maybe it is inconvenient for others. especially those behind all the luxury condominium developments...
I live in DUMBO, and The Forgotten was a horrible inconvenience to us. They took up the blocks around our building for almost a week, and actually tried to prevent us from going into our own building once or twice.
Thank god for Quiet Bar, where we nursed and grumbled many nights away.
Wah wah! I'm having trouble getting back to my million dollar loft because I chose to live in a photogenic section of the City. Let's keep working class New Yorkers employed by the film industry from earning a living in an economic downturn because the noise and lights frighten my fluffy widdle Foo-foo. Why are those dreadful little people even allowed in our neighborhood in the first place?
Sorry champ, but they were assholes. And I think my loft, although I'm a renter, is probably valued at something about $900k less than a million.
If I had a fluffy dog, though, I'd encourage it to pee on you.
$100K seems like an unlikely price for a loft in DUMBO. Last time I checked average sale price was something like $300k. Nevertheless...
You choose to live in NYC, you deal with the both the advantages and disadvantages of living with 8M other people. If you want to be able to keep people out of your neighborhood, go live in a gated community.
I live in Ft. Greene. They film here too. I like it. Especially when they try to tell me I can't walk up my own street. BTW what does the Lil Kim have to do with all this?
Lil' Kim was filming a video in DUMBO.
When did they come up with all these acronyms for areas of New York? Like Tribeca and Soho?
Was this some '60's thing?
Hoofin
(The thread ender)
Bah. I welcome the movie crews most of the time. As a more-than-casual movie fan, I think it's very neat to see them do their thing. The Forgotten, however, was a huge inconvenience for those of us on the North side of the MBO, and is the source for all this ruckus, I'm sure.
Anyone, poor or rich, is going to get frustrated when their life is heavily disrupted for days at a time. The personal outlay for me and my roommates alone was over $400 in parking tickets and towing due to covered up parking signs and over-aggresive NYPD towing.
I think it's funny that there are so many people are taking this as an attack on art. *I'm* an artist, as are most people in our building who were inconvenienced. Being an artist has little to do with being frustrated about being treated like an intruder on your own block.
And as for DUMBO apartment prices, I don't know the least bit about NY apartment prices, so don't take anything I say as gospel. My only point is that not everyone down here that was troubled is rich.