Filming In Brooklyn

The Making of Pelham 123, starring Denzel Washington and John Travolta, opens nationwide today.  While a lot of the movie filmed it Brooklyn, it happened before I had a website.  But it was the very first shoot that I posted about, a little over a year ago.  So happy late anniversary to me, and here’s [...]

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A couple weeks ago I sat down with Ahsaan Mitchell, a Brownsville native, who filmed a behind-the-scenes documentary about what happens to a neighborhood like Brownsville when a big Hollywood production moves in for the summer.   His is an amazing story: part luck, part imagination, part determination.  Most of all it’s about grabbing on to [...]

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Filming In Brooklyn reader – and frequent tipster/contributor – Carrot had a bird’s eye view last Friday in DUMBO as Law & Order: Criminal Intent filmed an armored car robbery at the corner of Water and Washington Streets. Here’s the crew setting up a prop ATM machine. Here they’re putting decals on an armored truck [...]

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