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  • I am tired of our neighborhood being overrun by film crews. If you agree, we need to contact the Mayor’s Office of Film and Broadcasting. You can email them by accessing the following links: nyc.gov, go to City Agencies, go to Film/theater, go to contact us, and sen an email. I emailed the following. If you disagree with me, OK, you email also. Thanks

    You’re obviously abusing DUMBO with an incredible volume of shoots because no one is complaining. You’ve had 5 shoots scheduled in the last 3 weeks. You’ve got a shoot for tomorrow, then the next day. I can just picture your agency saying, “Well, they haven’t complained yet (like we did a few years back, and got a Hot Zone declared) so lets just invade their neighborhood, take all the parking spaces whenever anyone applies for a permit. And you don’t even care how many blocks you give out. Frequently, they don’t even use 1/2 their streets, but yet we can’t park there. Oftentimes the crews do not even have the respect to take down their No Parking signs when they know the day ahead of time that they are canceling and rescheduling because of weather, so its double the inconvenience. Abusive! Will you declare us a Hot Zone on your own, or do you need the community to organize, and then I promise we will organize and complain ALL THE TIME. Gee, would Mayor Bloomberg like huge filming crews on his block every week?

    • get in touch with me, “Jane”
      (the editor knows where to find me)
      I too have called the mayors office of TV and Film Production, and our city councilman’s office as recently as today.
      with FOUR condos under construction, and WATER STREET being rebuilt, there’s just too much parking being set aside normally to accomodate the film crews.
      Either i get action from the city, or it’s civil disobedience time. Air horns, firecrackers, car horns…whatever it takes to disrupt the shoot.

  • I am tired of our neighborhood being overrun by film crews. If you agree, we need to contact the Mayor’s Office of Film and Broadcasting. You can email them by accessing the following links: nyc.gov, go to City Agencies, go to Film/theater, go to contact us, and sen an email. I emailed the following. If you disagree with me, OK, you email also. Thanks

    You’re obviously abusing DUMBO with an incredible volume of shoots because no one is complaining. You’ve had 5 shoots scheduled in the last 3 weeks. You’ve got a shoot for tomorrow, then the next day. I can just picture your agency saying, “Well, they haven’t complained yet (like we did a few years back, and got a Hot Zone declared) so lets just invade their neighborhood, take all the parking spaces whenever anyone applies for a permit. And you don’t even care how many blocks you give out. Frequently, they don’t even use 1/2 their streets, but yet we can’t park there. Oftentimes the crews do not even have the respect to take down their No Parking signs when they know the day ahead of time that they are canceling and rescheduling because of weather, so its double the inconvenience. Abusive! Will you declare us a Hot Zone on your own, or do you need the community to organize, and then I promise we will organize and complain ALL THE TIME. Gee, would Mayor Bloomberg like huge filming crews on his block every week?

    • get in touch with me, “Jane”
      (the editor knows where to find me)
      I too have called the mayors office of TV and Film Production, and our city councilman’s office as recently as today.
      with FOUR condos under construction, and WATER STREET being rebuilt, there’s just too much parking being set aside normally to accomodate the film crews.
      Either i get action from the city, or it’s civil disobedience time. Air horns, firecrackers, car horns…whatever it takes to disrupt the shoot.

  • Filming sucks for parking but is great for property values… film on.

  • Filming sucks for parking but is great for property values… film on.

  • I’m more concerned about the car window smashers. Seems like they just do it for fun now, they dont even bother stealing anything in the car.

  • I’m more concerned about the car window smashers. Seems like they just do it for fun now, they dont even bother stealing anything in the car.

  • FYI, there’s another project filming in/around the Pearl triangle tomorrow.

  • FYI, there’s another project filming in/around the Pearl triangle tomorrow.

  • “epoch” is filming Tuesday on John St and I believe Pearl/Anchorage.

  • “epoch” is filming Tuesday on John St and I believe Pearl/Anchorage.

  • I don’t have much hard data to support this, but many of the so-called film permits appear to be bogus, usually for smaller productions. I have a growing collection of photos of them and have found frequently that one or more of: the production company listed does not exist (anywhere, NY, NJ, CA when I’ve dug into it), the phone number listed is non-functional or rings to a generic voice mailbox, and the permit number has no connection to any permit numbers that the City issues.

    I am going to be on an extended trip out of DUMBO into mid-July but was wondering if a Google spreadsheet which collected the film permit data would be of any use. I’ve been doing something similar for the ongoing tracking of helicopters to/from the downtown heliport with some success in getting others to add data (the form is http://bitly.com/bkhelihell and the resulting data is http://bitly.com/bkhelidata ).
    I (or anyone else) could do something similar to track film permits. Would that be of any use/interest?

  • I don’t have much hard data to support this, but many of the so-called film permits appear to be bogus, usually for smaller productions. I have a growing collection of photos of them and have found frequently that one or more of: the production company listed does not exist (anywhere, NY, NJ, CA when I’ve dug into it), the phone number listed is non-functional or rings to a generic voice mailbox, and the permit number has no connection to any permit numbers that the City issues.

    I am going to be on an extended trip out of DUMBO into mid-July but was wondering if a Google spreadsheet which collected the film permit data would be of any use. I’ve been doing something similar for the ongoing tracking of helicopters to/from the downtown heliport with some success in getting others to add data (the form is http://bitly.com/bkhelihell and the resulting data is http://bitly.com/bkhelidata ).
    I (or anyone else) could do something similar to track film permits. Would that be of any use/interest?

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