You’re Not Mistaken – There Are A LOT Of TV Shoots In Our Area

Do you ever feel like you’re living in Hollywood? Probably not, but our section of Brooklyn has become a hotbed of TV filming activity.

According to data crunched by WNYC, a whopping 822 filming permits for scripted television shows were issued between 2011 and 2015 for the Kensington / Ditmas Park / Flatbush area.

The WNYC data team looked at TV shoot permits for the area that is roughly Prospect Park down to Avenue J, and Bedford Avenue west to Ocean Parkway, 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.

We’ve reported on scores of TV and film shootings in our area over the last several years.

If you enlarge the map of TV shooting locations across the city created by WNYC, the intensity of TV filming activity in our area is evident. Darkest purple indicates areas in which 52 or more permits were issued.

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.