It’s True: Film Shoots In Fort Greene And Clinton Hill Are Becoming More Frequent

Do you ever feel like you’re living in Hollywood? Probably not (the weather certainly destroys that illusion), but Brooklyn is often called Hollywood East, what with the filming boom for TV shows and movies across the borough and particularly in and around Steiner Studios in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. And there is a near constant stream of ‘No Parking’ signs and film shoot notices popping up across our neighborhood.

Now there’s data to back it up.

According to data crunched by WNYC, there were 455 film shoots in Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, and Wallabout, plus an additional 278 shoots in the Brooklyn Navy Yard between November 2011 and July 2015. CBS apparently really likes our area, too: both “Blue Bloods” and “The Good Wife” are filmed regularly and clock in as the two shows with the most number of film shoots during the measured time period.

The WNYC data team looked at TV shoot permits for the area that is roughly Flatbush Avenue across to Classon Avenue and Atlantic Avenue up to Flushing Avenue and the Navy Yard waterfront, as part of their examination of TV filming across the city between 2011 and 2015. The data comes from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment.

If you enlarge the map of TV shooting locations across the city created by WNYC, the intensity of TV filming activity becomes even more evident. Darkest purple indicates areas in which 52 or more permits were issued. Overall, there were over 60,000 shoots across the city represented in this map.

New York City is beginning to rival — and even at times outpace — Los Angeles in terms of the number of TV shows shot here, reports WNYC.

“The number of scripted television shows produced in New York City has more than quadrupled since 2002,” says WNYC, with 46 different shows in 2014. More drama pilots were shot in New York than in L.A. for the 2013 — 2014 season, the first time on record, they add.

New York City’s “filmed entertainment industry” now contributes $8.7 billion to the local economy, a 21 percent increase since 2011, says the mayor’s office.

“Full-time equivalent” jobs in the industry have grown 10 percent across the city, from 94,000 to 104,000 over the last four years, the mayor’s office said.