No, They're Not Building a New Boat House in Prospect Park
If you’re a Forum visitor, you may have noticed Bob Marvin’s post on Monday about a strange building rising on the peninsula in Prospect Park. Turns out it’s part of the set for a Tina Fey/Steve Carell movie that’s scheduled to be filming today. Prospect Park is standing in for the Central Park Boat House,…
If you’re a Forum visitor, you may have noticed Bob Marvin’s post on Monday about a strange building rising on the peninsula in Prospect Park. Turns out it’s part of the set for a Tina Fey/Steve Carell movie that’s scheduled to be filming today. Prospect Park is standing in for the Central Park Boat House, it turns out. To see a photo of the behind-the-scenes construction click through below.
I hate the low level film guys that try to stop the city from going about its business. It’s like a tourist who makes everyone wait while they take a picture, and then they are assholes when someone gets impatient and walks through.
I moved away from Kensington because there was a constant stream of movie crews claiming the streets so they could film in the subway station.
I’m pretty sure it’s only since Saturday, but some days I run through the Ravine, so it could have been a little earlier. There are so many alternate (mostly unpaved)paths through the Peninsula that it was easy to run around the set on Monday (and for me to walk there to take photographs yesterday).
Has it really only been since Saturday? That’s also part of one of my usual running routes, but I thought it started last week.
I’m still bummed that they paved some of the paths back there and in the middle of the park. Plotting out a mostly soft-surface running route isn’t as easy as it was back in the day.
Sparafucle,
The path through the peninsula is one of my regular running routes. It’s only been closed since last Saturday–although I ran through anyway on that day and, when challenged, yelled back–“it’s a public path”–I can sometimes be an a**hole that way 🙂
I wouldn’t be surprised if everything is gone by the weekend, or earlier. Nevertheless, I hope the City, the PP Alliance, or both are getting plenty of $$s for this. I have mixed (and largely negative) feelings about closing off public spaces for filming, despite the jobs and revenue generated (and how nice the members of this crew have been –when I’m not acting like an a**hole).
Lesloaf,
I was told that they did shoot some scenes in Central Park, but that there was a problem (unspecified) with the CP boat house. I’m sure any permit would have been far less costly than building this set. The attention to detail was phenomenal. In this photograph you can see them putting in plants:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25605294@N00/3633296183/sizes/o/in/pool-83336891@N00/
I wonder why they couldn’t just film at the real Central Park boat house. Is it that hard to get a permit?
How much do they pay the City for the exclusive use of this portion of the park for several weeks? The path on either side of this new building has been roped off for a couple weeks already, and who knows when they’ll be done?
tybur6,
AFAIK they’re SUPPOSED to have foundations. Perhaps, after a few years of crumbling they won’t.
Sam,
Too true (sigh) 🙁
The artistry that used to go into designing and constructing real buildings is now limited only to movie sets.
There IS a foundation. It’s called SONY Pictures!