The Gotham Awards gala run by the Independent Feature Project (IFP) will be held in Brooklyn for the first time tonight, after 17 years spent bouncing around between Roseland, Hammerstein Ballroom and Chelsea Piers. This year the independent film awards will take place on the soundstage of Steiner Studios in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Among the thousand-plus guests expected to attend are Javier Bardem, Sean Penn, Laura Linney, Uma Thurman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Brooklyn’s......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a shooting at Stanton and Rivington Sts. in Manhattan, a homicide on Light St. in the Bronx, and a robbery at Sutter Ave. and Powell St. in Brooklyn. The 72nd St. exit ramp off the West Side Highway is officially closed. Times Square foot and vehicular traffic is held up as an example of why the city needs congestion pricing. Miss New Jersey, Amy Polumbo, received another package of......

It's birdseed throwing or bubble blowing time with this weekend's NY Times wedding announcements. Total Number of Weddings: 12 (including Vows column) Total Number of Same-Sex Weddings: 1 Youngest Bride: 24 Oldest Bride: 48 Youngest Groom: 26 Oldest Groom: 56 Biggest Age Difference: 8 years Number of Couples Where Bride and Groom Are the Same Age: 3 (ages 27, 36, and 37) Number of Cornell Graduates Married: 2 Number of Penn State Graduates Married: 2......

Way back in 2004, the city announced its super duper special NYC Tax Credit Program for film and TV producers (as well as commercial, music video, etc.) in order to motivate productions to happen here, versus Los Angeles or (gasp) Toronto. And it worked really well: Lindsay Lohan made a movie, Martin Scorsese shot a set-in-Boston movie mostly here, CBS brought us Love Monkey (then cancelled it), there's another Dick Wolf TV, plus countless......

- In terms of receiving 9/11 funds, Chinatown has been left in the dust. - With the Producers, the Steiner Studios in Brooklyn come of age. - Steve Jobs wants to keep the giant cube that Apple is putting in front of the GM building. - Penny Crone got fired by Fox, hired by Stern. - The Post picks up on the Sony/Graf story we wrote about in November. - And finally, if you......

Moviefone finally has the Rent trailer featuring “Seasons of Love” and so far, the film seems to successfully conceal San Francisco. http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2004/11/16/movie_version_of_rent_will_be_shot_insan_francisco.php ">As Gothamist previously reported, Director Chris Columbus opted to film the majority of the East Village musical in San Francisco and the exterior shots in New York (a pity Revolution Studios, of Gigli fame, didn’t wait for the opening of Brooklyn's new $118 million Steiner Studios). Anthony Rapp, who plays Mark Cohen, wrote......

New York City has announced a new incentive program for producers to shoot their films and TV shows in NYC with panache: Announcing that the second film version of The Producers, based on the Broadway musical (which was based on the film), would be shot at the new Steiner Studios in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Some of the big features of the Empire State Film Production Credit Program:- A Tax Credit (5% refundable tax......

New York might get a boost to its film industry with the Steiner Studios in Brooklyn, which has been quietly breaking ground and emerging from the Navy Yard, at Flushing and Washington Avenues. Glenn Collins from the Times examines what the investors hope to bring to New York TV & film production, as well as Brooklyn. Backed by the Steiner Equities Group, facilities will have the largest soundstage in the Northeast (even bigger than Kaufman-Astoria,......