The hit Showtime series Billions is filming on Friday night into early Saturday morning in a section of the neighborhood from 98th Street and West End to 101st Street and Broadway. The show plans to use large lights during the shoot, and notes that they may shine into people’s windows.
To accommodate people who might not want bright lights shining into their windows after midnight, Billions is offering to hang black curtains over the windows. See the full notice below.
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Hooray for Hollywood!
This is the FOURTH major production to close these same streets and disrupt (tax-paying, hard-working, community-contributing) residents’ lives.
Shouldn’t there be some sort of controls over this????
It’s good business for the city!
Sure but to the film industry this is just another location. Many screenwriters are also your neighbors.
puleez! This is New York, location shoots go on all over
the city….if you don’t like it MOVE. Really, it’s not a disruption
at all…you are imagining things.
Anyway, our Block Association asked for and received a
donation for our treasury to help take care of the trees on
our block.
Film crews are more than happy to address any concern.
Have a heart!
To the people complaining about filming in the neighborhood:
You’re right, lets shut down these productions and while we’re at it, do you have any other ideas for how we can reduce the number of jobs in this city?
To be clear, I’m not talking about finance jobs — just want to make sure we get rid of the craftsmen, artists, union laborers, and middle class people that work on these film productions.
Whatever it takes to ensure us Upper West Siders don’t need to suffer through these minor inconveniences!
/s
This is filming in my neighborhood and i fully support it and appreciate your comments. The Film and TV industry brings money and jobs to NYC and surrounding areas. For the poster who wants Someone to control this, it’s called the mayors office of theatre film and broadcasting and they do a spectacular job of attracting productions to NYC. https://www1.nyc.gov/site/mome/index.page
Hollywood used to film inside a studio on sets. Then they wanted realism. New York doesn’t even look like New York anymore. Let them use CGI.
Supplying the UWS with blackout curtains? Wow! There’s no business like show business!
I would love the black out curtains! I have light coming into my bedroom from stores and street lamps all night long! May be I could snag a few! 🙂
What about offering parking spots or valet pkg?
That would be nice, and it is probably a tax write off for the producers.
For years I’ve suggested that when a film crew is taking up a lot of spaces why not suspend alternate side of the street parking.
I cringe when people refer to expenses as “tax write-offs” If you don’t really know what a word means, don’t use it.
WOW….they’re filming in Manhattan Valley!
I have a 225,000 candlepower spotlight I’d be happy to loan to anyone in the shooting area so they could point it out their window at the set. All I ask is 50% of whatever they pay you to turn it off.
As if this neighborhood doesn’t have enough noise and traffic with the WEA redesign. Give us a break already
Brody from Homelamd. Stop complaining.
And I’m sure there won’t be any noise or diesel fumes at all.
Are they offering ear plugs and face masks?
Stop ruining life for residents.
PERMIT “COPS & ROBBERS” BUT……
The greatest hardship for me as a resident when the incessant filming goes on at the Upper Westside near my 96th St. apartment building is the usual resulting lack of parking caused by the closure of parking lanes used by the film-makers. I believe that the City is paid for these services by the film-makers. I think the City should then provide remedial parking facilities, like nearby garage or other reserved parking spaces, including shuttling the inconvenient residents back to their home address…. ABUSING THE VOTING RESIDENTS IS NOT AN ANSWER…
Oh boo hoo. You FREE parking isn’t conveniently outside your building for a day or two. I know it’s the worst thing the happen to you since you were a child soldier in Africa, but I think you’ll be ok.
Wow we live on a very popular corner for filming and NEVER get offered blackout curtains, despite spotlights shining in our windows at all hours of the night. This show must be fancy!
The lack of parking spaces is the only gripe I have.