Awesome pics!

Posted by: FilmingInBrooklyn at October 22, 2009 2:39 PM in response to Matt Damon Does Red Hook

The productions use local catering companies, as in New York City companies. Nobody's saying that the entire cast and crew walks down the street to the diner for lunch, that would be a logistical nightmare. Of course the meals have to be catered.

The vast majority of the crew members that I meet at shoots live in the five boroughs, most of them in Brooklyn and Queens.

Posted by: FilmingInBrooklyn at March 26, 2009 11:24 AM in response to Big Fire on 9th Street?

The link is adding brownstoner.com for some reason. Take that out and this link works: http://www.paintquality.com/spruceup/

Posted by: FilmingInBrooklyn at October 8, 2008 11:17 AM in response to Closing Bell: $pruce Up Your Home Contest

I'm so sorry I missed this thread. Now nobody but me is reading it. But as a born and bred Buffalonian, I love it that a thread (mostly) about Buffalo got this much attention. It was a great place to grow up. My mom is a nurse and my dad is a piano teacher, but we still had a good standard of living once their careers got going. The public schools were really good - especially the magnet schools - and there's a ton to do if you're in to art, music, dance, or theater. There are beautiful parks, and Niagara Falls is a twenty minute drive away (the Canadian side is where to go).

I go back every two or three months to visit family, and I miss it. Yes, the winters are cold. But in the summer, when we're suffering here through 99-degree heat and brownouts, it's 80-degrees there with a nice breeze. You don't technically need a car I guess, but my family didn't have one when I was little and I would have to say that you wouldn't want to live there without at least one car. But that's OK, because you'd be able to afford it.

The job situation is not great, but I can totally see someone moving there because of a job. It really is a pleasant place to live. And after being made fun of incessantly for decades, Buffalonians tend to have good senses of humor.

I've never looked for 50 kinds of bleu cheese, I'm guessing most people just want the kind that goes on Duff's wings. Buffalo has the best subs, and I can't believe the thread got this long without anyone mentioning Mighty Taco. I've got six of their burritos in my freezer right now.

I think Buffalo is like any other place, in that people who grew up there and know it well can see the good things while knowing that the bad things don't affect them much. The east side is a hole. My school bus took me through it every day for 13 years. But I bet most Buffalonians never go there, just like most Brooklynites don't find themselves in East New York very often (unless we're driving to BJ's). The Elmwood strip is hip and interesting and artsy. And not merely on a Buffalo scale, just hip and artsy enough for anywhere. To a large extent a city is what you make of it. Buffalo has a lot to offer. We talk about moving back all the time. If we weren't happy with our lives in Brooklyn, there's a good chance we'd be back in Buffalo before the Sabres home opener.

Posted by: FilmingInBrooklyn at August 31, 2008 9:15 PM in response to Can't Cut It In Brooklyn? Try Buffalo.

I'll miss you Gabby! Please put in a good word for me with Lisa! :-)

Posted by: FilmingInBrooklyn at July 31, 2008 11:38 PM in response to Changing of the Guard