“The Intern” Comes To Fort Greene Tomorrow, As Filming Moratorium Is Issued In Clinton Hill

We noticed signs posted near Fort Greene Park yesterday asking neighbors to move their cars off nearby blocks for continued filming of Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway’s The Intern, which has moved north after the city  issued a moratorium on its previous filming locations in Clinton Hill.

The New York Daily News published a story about the temporary film crew shutout from Washington to Bedford Avenue and Lafayette to Fulton Street following a something of a harrowing summer for locals, which included 16-hour film shoots complete with lights, running generators, and very limited parking.

The moratorium, which started last month, follows reported rising tensions between neighbors making bank off the shoots and neighbors whose lives were disrupted by them. Says the Daily News:

At least four [Clinton Hill] residents managed to rent their homes for extended stretches of the summer to the Warner Bros. crew filming “The Intern,” a comedy starring Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro that is scheduled for release next year.

Neighbors allegedly threw eggs at one of the rented brownstones as filming wrapped up several weeks back, furious that the homeowner cashed in at their expense.

The article says studios attempted to placate residents with parking passes, donations to a local block association, and visits from ice cream trucks.

As for The Intern’s impending filming in Fort Greene, neighbors are asked to move their cars off of Dekalb Avenue from South Oxford to South Elliott Places and off of South Portland Avenue from Dekalb to Lafayette by 7pm tonight ahead of a shoot tomorrow. Contact location manager Nils with questions or concerns at 917-568-1260.

Do you enjoy seeing films being shot around the neighborhood, or is a little Hollywood glamor not worth the inconvenience? And do you have ideas for film crews, or neighbors renting their homes for shoots, on how to make filming more pleasant/worth it for other Fort Greene and Clinton Hill residents?

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