Drove past this while scouting in Fairfield the other day…
Would you trust these guys to do your marketing? I’m just sayin’…
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Every single building. In all five boroughs. This massive undertaking was a way for the city to appraise real estate for tax purposes and resulted in over 700,000 photos. In the 80′s, the project was repeated, this . . . One of the more tedious aspects of film locations work is writing up directions to set. You have to do them from multiple starting positions, include return directions, give “Commercial route” versions for trucks and make sure the bridge clearances are high enough, only to ultimately have every Hollywood-type call you frantically on the morning of the shoot completely lost and scared they’re in . . .
I finally got around to putting up a Facebook page for Scouting NY – if you’re a fan, please befriend us by clicking here! (Or, log-in and search for “Scouting NY”). I swear, this is the only time I’ll ask! I’m hoping to post pictures and stories that don’t really fit on the . . . Almost a year ago, I wrote a post about my favorite building in midtown, this chopped-in-half brownstone at 19 W 46th Street.
The other day, I got a note that a Lego fan had built a Lego version of the building based on my pictures!
I received a very unexpected email last week: We recently purchased a building in Ridgewood, Queens, and while clearing out the basement we discovered a two lane manual bowling alley in very good condition. We did some research and this basement was most probably a club during the prohibition era. Would you or someone you know be interested [in the . . . |
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Between 1939 and 1941, the city of New York took a 35-mm black-and-white picture of every single building in NY.
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