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Billions is Shooting on the UWS, So ‘No Parking for You Plebes’

February 14, 2020 | 9:02 AM
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The world of hedge funds and expense accounts is setting up shop on the Upper West Side on Friday, as the Showtime series Billions shoots in the neighborhood. Look for Paul Giamatti screaming at someone for disobeying the pooper scooper law. And move your car if it’s parked in the mid-70’s between West End and Riverside. As our tipster Priscilla wrote, “no parking for you plebes.”

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Rob
Rob
5 years ago

Plebes don’t own cars. Buggies, at best.

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mark aracelis
mark aracelis
5 years ago

That letter has no legal authority. Only the NYPD and DOT can issue such edicts.

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Jerry
Jerry
5 years ago
Reply to  mark aracelis

This is an informational posting. City permits are posted in all areas affected.

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lynn
lynn
5 years ago
Reply to  mark aracelis

The letter says they’re working with the full cooperation of the Mayor’s office, etc. Isn’t that enough?

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Scott
Scott
5 years ago

The thing I love most about these production shoots is that they take up half a block with a commissary truck in neighborhoods where delis are found every 50 feet.

Way to support local businesses.

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Tristan
Tristan
5 years ago
Reply to  Scott

Your local deli will get a good amount of business out of the fact that a film shoot is in the neighborhood. Sometimes the crew will prep for several days before the shooting day and guess where all of the set dressers, technicians, gaffers, grips, teamsters and production people get their food. – at your local deli and restaurants. Also your local hardware store is where the prep crews will buy supplies if needed on the day. But it is simply not possible to feed an entire shooting crew of 200 or more people food from a corner deli within the one hour lunch break. Logistically these places are not able to provide space and supply that is required.

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Jerry
Jerry
5 years ago
Reply to  Scott

Does parking determine where locals shop?

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EdNY
EdNY
5 years ago
Reply to  Scott

Inasmuch as the food needs to be free, how to you propose to work that out with local merchants? It’s completely impractical.

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caterer
caterer
5 years ago
Reply to  Scott

Perhaps the company providing the catering is NYC based. Not “local” enough for you?

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Jk
Jk
5 years ago
Reply to  caterer

They ALL ARE.

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Scott
Scott
5 years ago
Reply to  caterer

Not if they’re not paying rent like our delis do. Also I notice some of these trucks are hooked up to generators. They should pay the city for the environmental costs of running them.

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Lady Di
Lady Di
5 years ago
Reply to  Scott

you are so right !!! with the number of restaurants that keep closing and lack of decent supermarkets, our local delis are even more vital now. All future agreements with the Mayors Office of Film and TV should include the stipulation that no craft services will be allowed.

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Jeremy
Jeremy
5 years ago
Reply to  Lady Di

These businesses are not closing due to film production. They ARE closing due to greedy landlords raising rents to unsustainable levels. And show me a block that has a deli every 50 feet, especially west 70s near west end Avenue.

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Mike
Mike
5 years ago

Taxpayer-funded free storage for private vehicles needs to come to an end. TV and Movie production provides jobs and should take priority.

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Deb
Deb
5 years ago
Reply to  Mike

I will endorse the Presidential candidate that supports free curbside parking for all.

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Nevets K
Nevets K
5 years ago
Reply to  Mike

I love this “storage” word! Right out of “Transportation Alternatives” propaganda sheet!
Film shoots are a temporary nuisance, true, but overall tolerable if spaced apart.
Two questions I would like answered, however: How many members of Community Board 7’s Transportation Committee “store” their cars in private garages in Manhattan; and, just as significantly, how many members of this board own cars and keep them in their private garages at their second homes upstate?

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Lou
Lou
5 years ago
Reply to  Mike

I own a car. I pay taxes. I paid NY sales taxes when I bought it. I pay local taxes when I service it. I pay local taxes and federal highway taxes when I gas up.

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Westside gene
Westside gene
5 years ago
Reply to  Mike

Taxpayer funded bike lanes has to end. Parks should not be free. Educatuon should not be paid for by people without kids. Get real

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stu
stu
5 years ago

Most of the reserved spots are completely empty. Ridiculous. Does anyone know how much a permit to take up a block costs?

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chris
chris
5 years ago
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I do not think you need permits anymore. All the anti trump protest lately have not had permits

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UpperWestSide
UpperWestSide
5 years ago

It is great for the city to have a shoot here. Jobs and exposure are a good thing. Also kinda fun; we live in a place where people *want* to film. Surely we can put up with some temporary parking constraints.

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Lou
Lou
5 years ago

Another horrible disastrous miserable unfair day for UWSiders who see their streets, their home entrances and their parking spaces taken over by people who spend not one penny locally but pay fees to the city’s grandiose office of film which then spends that money…how?

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Jerry
Jerry
5 years ago
Reply to  Lou

The film commission generates thousands of jobs yearly- technicians, actors, production rentals, teamsters,Equipement rentals, production assistants as well as high fees to use locations and ALL THE TAXES CONNECTED TO THEM. Police use for security is drawn from a special film and television unit dedicated for that purpose. Many of the same police used to protect parade goers and protesters alike.

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CAL
CAL
5 years ago

Film trucks and crew are noisy and take up parking spots, but it is fun to have them filming here.

Maybe this was the only couple of blocks in the City they could find with no scaffolding for their exterior shots? If there are any.

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Jk
Jk
5 years ago
Reply to  CAL

I have to say that, for the most part, film crews are NOT noisy. Some of their production assistants who are mostly young and eager shout too much. Most of the crew goes about their jobs in silence when possible.

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CAL
CAL
5 years ago
Reply to  Jk

That’s what you focused on? Noise? Not a real issue. It was about the scaffolding in every exterior shot on TV and Movies filmed in NYC nowadays. Yeesh.

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Jerry Knaster
Jerry Knaster
5 years ago

This is good. Good for the local economy, good for the dozens of crew that are employed. And isn’t it nice to see your neighborhood on screen? I’ll bet there isn’t one New Yorker who doesn’t look for a familiar landmark when they watch a film shot in the city. People complain about losing a parking spot for a day. Can’t say I feel sorry for that,given the benefits to so many others..Keep them coming!

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Rodger Lodger
Rodger Lodger
5 years ago

A day without complaints is a wasted day.

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Emilie de Brigard
Emilie de Brigard
5 years ago
Reply to  Rodger Lodger

The uncomplained life is not worth living.

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Larry K
Larry K
5 years ago

I’d love to see Paul G scream at a non pooper scooper on Billions. Maybe some would wake up and smell their dog’s poop!!

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Uwssaddeligoer
Uwssaddeligoer
5 years ago

There would no place for them to buy food if they tried to find a deli in my hood! Mid-high 60s has no “delis” left. It’s so sad.

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al
al
5 years ago

Why does the ‘staff’ working on the show need free street parking while the residents are forced to look elsewhere? Eqiupment, dressing rooms, ok, but the highly paid workers get free parking?

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Tristan
Tristan
5 years ago
Reply to  al

The staff is not even allowed to park in any of the permitted parking spots. Only equipment trucks with commercial license plates have permission. If a non permitted passenger car (even from a staff member) parks in any of those spots it risks getting a ticket just as anybody else.
If you ever saw a call sheet of these film shoots you would notice that they always say “no crew parking on set”.

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