Can Construction Workers Park Where They Want?
This issue is more up the alley of our friends at Streets Blog but we’ll throw it out there anyway. What’s the legal status of construction workers parking their cars on the sidewalk while they perform work on the city’s streets? We’d be pretty surprised if it were okay, but the cop in this picture…
This issue is more up the alley of our friends at Streets Blog but we’ll throw it out there anyway. What’s the legal status of construction workers parking their cars on the sidewalk while they perform work on the city’s streets? We’d be pretty surprised if it were okay, but the cop in this picture of Flushing Avenue certainly doesn’t have a problem with it.
I get hired to drive my van for these guys sometimes. they do hire locally :p.
As a film worker, I would like to point out that we pay taxes based on where we work, not just where we live. So in addition to my NYC property taxes, my NYC income tax, my NY state income tax I pay the tax for whatever state I worked in that day, new jersey, connecticut, etc. (one year I had to file 7 state tax returns) So I don’t feel your pain about how you pay property taxes, blah, blah.
And again, the caterers are all local, but most of the time its bad, so we are spending our money in neighborhood.
Mentch, as was clearly stated above, the film workers DON’T get parking on movie shoots. The parking is for trailers, equipment trucks, etc. Not staff cars.
Meanwhile, I don’t know anything about your size, my friend, but you gotta give it up to Anon 3:21. I think a LOT of people in NYC take up too much space…. 🙂
First of all, has anyone found my 2nd comment? it’s lost on the page, if someone founds it, please return it, thx.
Now, to the point, I am not a broker, I don’t have to explain here exactly what I do, I just said I’m in the real estate line.
And to anon 3:21, I don’t give a shit when those people have to get up, those who work in the fish market etc. are up earlier, all I said was, there is NO reason, that a WORKER, not a prop car, should get special parking treatment, he works in an industry, as do millions of other new yorkers, and no one gets special treatment, and I don’t see why they should, thats all
I think the public transit in NYC leaves a lot to be desired. I think it is one of the worst systems in any world-class city.
Smelly, noisy, over-crowded, rat-infested, ugly.
Are any of these things untrue?
I also work in the film industry. The reason the movie permits to get the streets cleared is so they can get the shots they need. To do this properly involves putting prop cars in a shot that don’t belong to someone not associated with the movie because if that person needed to move their car during shooting, the rest of the shots after that wouldn’t match, now having a different car in shot. The cars you assume are crew people’s cars, are most likely prop cars which are needed for the shots. And also, the camera moves around from spot to spot on a street, meaning the entire production has to shift and sometimes lights need to go in the street. Crew people from New Jersey complain all the time about not having free parking on set (but, hey, they choose to live in New Jersey so their problem as I see it). Most movies do and are actually required to hire locals and movies bring tons of money to NYC.
Aw, mentch, many would argue on this board that you, as a real estate person, take up too much valuable space yourself. For crying out loud, get over it.
I’ve worked in the industry too, and 2:31 forgot to mention having to get up at 3AM to be somewhere at 5 to load up the truck and be back in the city on location. By the time you see the crew bum rushing the catering tables, and the bathroom, they’ve already been up for 6 hours. After they put in a full day, they then spend another 4 hours reloading the truck, driving it back to the studio or warehouse, and then being dropped off at the subway to go home. I think your average film crew, especially the camera, light and sound guys, as well as costumes, work much harder than you ever will.
Which is all irrelevant, anyway. Lighten up and just deal with occasional annoyance in your busy life, you’ll live longer.
I work in the industry. A huge percentage of people on every film crew (either for glamorous movies or boring commercials) is hired locally, for the rather obvious reason that it’s muchhhhh cheaper. And in NY, that lighting guy is not parking his own car on your street; he’s taking the subway (at 5 in the morning), picking up a production vehicle full of gear, and schlepping equipment to set. Most other crew members also take the subway to a meeting point, and are carried to set in vans. It’s obviously not practical to make movies by transporting cameras (or Meryl Streep) on mass transit. Would you like to see production stop in NYC? What, you don’t like Law & Order?
They get tax breaks to shot boring commercials (not the Amex ones w/ Robert DeNiro). They close down residential streets and make homeowners/renters move their cars so the out of town “film crew” can drive right up and park. Why should a lighting guy have to look for a spot or take public transport? The nerve of those that pay property taxes.