Spielberg’s “St James Place” Sets Up Shop A Little Early in Brooklyn Heights

By on September 27, 2014 10:10 am in Movie shoots, Parking, Transportation

Forget what the signs say–the production that is taking over the neighborhood for days on end has decided that 24 hours of empty streets isn’t enough. By 9 am, production crews had set up cones to prevent parking on multiple blocks.

Calls to the number listed on the sign yielded only voicemail; a call to the 84th went unanswered. Literally: no one picked up the phone. IMG_7505.JPG

RELATED: Watch Spielberg Shoot St. James Place in DUMBO

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  • marshasrimler

    again.. this is all part of overuse and bulked up overdevelopment of our neighborhoods… without schools, healthcare and library destruction.

  • Remsen Street Dweller

    This community is being plundered and despoiled. We pay high property taxes but our hospital services have been taken away, our library is in the process of being discarded, not enough schools, and huge condos being built everywhere. And add to that dealing with the movie companies that give our community nothing in return to help deal with the inconveniences they cause.

  • Fritz

    What’s the problem with movie shoots? I’d like to see more of the talent in the street, but the shoots add life to the neighborhood. I’d like to see more like the Boardwalk Empire scenes. The movie companies showcase our neighborhood!

  • Fritz

    LICH was closed, in part, because none of us with good insurance, would be hospitalized there, except for the ER.

  • marshasrimler

    no it was mismanagement

  • marshasrimler

    disruption and the funds paid to the city for our disruption go where?

  • petercow

    Let me get this straight – you’re complaint about an industry that employs thousands of New Yorkers, and brings millions of dollars to the city, is your loss of your -free- parking? GROW THE F*CK UP!

  • marshasrimler

    Mr.gentleman
    It’s the incredible
    Volume of shoots.not the shoots
    Themselves
    Where do the fees go?
    BE CIVIL OR THE BLOG WILL REMOVEE YOU

  • petercow

    Where do the fees go? Where do the fees for parking tickets go? Where does the dog license fee, I pay, go? General revenue.

  • Remsen Street Dweller

    Not true — it was plundered by Continuum “W”ealth Partners to pay for Beth Israel in Manhattan’s renovation and leftovers were given to SUNY who consciously ran to the ground so they could sell it to Fortis Property Group (deal courteously brought to us by Gov. Andrew A. Cuomo.

  • Remsen Street Dweller

    And what is our community getting out of any of this revenue? — nothing but refusal to listen to our voices and loss of more of the public services of a civilized society.

  • Boerum Bill

    I’ve reached Hanks saturation long ago.

  • Teresa

    Reasonable people can disagree about whether private, profit-making companies should take up parking spaces for private, tax-paying citizens. But it is unreasonable that one productions should take up more than a dozen blocks for 2-3 consecutive days, over a weekend, in a community that is both residential and commercial, which will no doubt have a deleterious effect on local businesses, which do not benefit at all from the presence of the shoots.

    It is also worth noting the significant tax breaks these productions get. http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2014/03/new_york_state_most_generous_to_film_industry.html

  • Klezmer O’Brien

    The problem with movie shoots is not that they employ people but that they take over the neighborhood like they own it.

    Shoots are very disruptive – a sacrifice for anybody within several blocks of the actual shoot.

    I had a location scout who wanted to use my home but the amount of money they offered was laughably small for the amount of disruption they were going to cause. Instead, they went with a neighbor who owns the building but doesn’t live there.

    I came home and found they were using my stoop for extras and just trying to steal the shot. So I told them to get out and I sat on my stoop to watch. A PA came up and threatened me. Effectively, he said, “you can’t stay here forever and we’ll wind up getting the shot.”

    Later they had a crane up next to my window – I mean – right up next to the window. Like peeping Tom close….and they put black paint on the lights on my steps.

    The arrogance was beyond belief…it happened over a couple of days – had I know what they were doing I would have called the cops.

  • gatornyc

    Define “laughably small”

  • petercow

    And reasonable people can disagree about whether public streets should be used to store privately owned vehicles.

  • Teresa

    I feel like that was implied in what I wrote…at least I meant it to be. But regardless of what can or should be, it’s the way it is now.

  • ujh

    Did anyone here consider the fact that southbound traffic might be diverted in the Heights on Sunday, September 28, to prevent motorists from crossing Atlantic Avenue into Cobble Hill due to the Atlantic Antic?

  • BrooklynCoffeeLover

    I completely agree. You live in Brooklyn New York. One of the fastest growing places in the country. Let others have a piece of it. Enjoy it.

  • Heights Observer

    Atlantic Antic is a NEIGHBORHOOD event, not the creation of arrogant movie production companies who give back nothing to the community. During the antic, the businesses in the area are show-cased and put out their wares, community organizations interact with us, there is entertainment and a good time is had by all. Quite different than the average movie shoot that just causes major disruption. And I don’t even own a car!

  • marshasrimler

    that is the mismanagement I refer to

  • marshasrimler

    we cannot grow sanely without health care and schools

  • marshasrimler

    Lets put the movie shoots on garden place too..

  • marshasrimler

    call the BHA.. they are supposed to be the neighborhood organization

  • BrooklynCoffeeLover

    With a blanket statement like that, anything can be true. We cannot grow sanely without healthy food.

    We can do more than one thing at a time.

  • marshasrimler

    i can see you do not have children in overcrowded schools

  • BrooklynCoffeeLover

    I do have children and my wife is a teacher.

    Try again.

  • marshasrimler

    ok.. your kids are not in overcrowded classrooms.
    Have you been in an ambulance or an er lately?

  • BrooklynCoffeeLover

    I guess I have to prove myself to you? Yes, they are in over crowded classrooms. Both my son and wife are actually.

    I don’t see how my son being in an over crowded classroom directly affects the production of a Steven Spielberg movie. They didn’t take over schools or endanger anyones lives while filming. They paid the proper permit fees, closed the streets and had police on hand for crowd control and traffic. Did they take your precious free parking spot? Maybe. But I firmly believe that you will be okay without it for a few days. These movies give a ton of NYers a job and I thought that’s what community is all about…helping each other out. If your son said “Mom, I want to be a director one day.” Are you going to tell him “Only if you stay in Hollywood and don’t do on-location shoots. Everything must be green screen and CGI.”

    If you feel there are too many movies being filmed here, then I would advise you not to complain about it on a small time blog and talk to the BHA about it, or whoever would be in charge of the filming permits.

    Once again, you live in Brooklyn New York. This borough has a TON happening..some we like, and some we don’t. Sometimes we just have to deal with the stuff we don’t like. That’s life. No one is forcing you to live here.

    And no, I have not been in an ambulance anytime lately…thank God.

  • marshasrimler

    the big picture is our community is being overdeveloped and overused
    while we have less and less services. Movie making is just a small part of it.
    ps I do not own a car

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