DeNiro Filming in Clinton Hill
We just got word that Robert Deniro’s latest flick, an insider take on the CIA called The Good Shepard, has been filming on the streets of Clinton Hill (Gates and Clinton to be exact). Did anyone happen to take any pictures? Wonder whether he’s using the sound stages at the Navy Yard too? The Good…
We just got word that Robert Deniro’s latest flick, an insider take on the CIA called The Good Shepard, has been filming on the streets of Clinton Hill (Gates and Clinton to be exact). Did anyone happen to take any pictures? Wonder whether he’s using the sound stages at the Navy Yard too?
The Good Shepard [IMDB]
All I’m saying is that many Brownstone Brooklyn neighborhoods are overcrowded, congested, and polluted. These neighborhoods were never designed to accomodate cars. For most people living in these neighborhoods, cars are not vital, but something of a luxury. Luxury here being defined as something that is NOT vital. Many people living in Brownstone Brooklyn do not need to drive to work, or take their children to school. And yet many people living in these neighborhoods still choose to own a car, even though they rarely use said car, or use it for trips that could be made via public transportation.
I think a lot of people who move to Brooklyn for a larger home feel entitled to a car as well. To the whole suburban thing. Even though Brownstone Brooklyn is patently not suburbia. Manhattanites KNOW they live in a city. Brooklynites in the more dense Brownstone neighborhoods that make no accomodation to car ownership seem to be a little confused on this point. Sure if you need to drive to Queens to work, or you have to schlep 5 kids to 5 different schools, owning a car is justified. But if you only use it to hit the beach a few times each summer, or stock up at the WalMart on Long Island, maybe you could think about making a choice which is both a little more environmentally and urban friendly – rent a vehicle, keep our air cleaner, our streets less polluted, noise levels down, road rage to a minimum…
I just feel (strongly) that if people chose to live in urban environments, they should try in live in harmony with that envirmonment. Fewer cars in Brooklyn would be a good thing.
Manhattanites don’t have cars because on street parking is impossible and garages charge upwards of three hundred bucks a month for a space. Are you suggesting that Manhattanites are somehow more virtuous than Brooklyn car-owners? Like many things – owning a house for example – cars are not an option for most people in Manhattan. That’s why they move to Brooklyn.
If someone wants to spend his/her money to buy a car, that’s fine. If a film crew temporarily inconviences that car owner, that’s fine, too. Appreciate all the days drivers get to park their cars for free rather than complain about the one day they can’t park as close to their homes.
If you don’t really need a car and choose to live in Brownstone Brooklyn, a city that was never designed to accomodate cars, then no, you probably should not have one. Car ownership is a luxury, not a necessity, in most large cities. Not only does it congest the streets, but, as I’m sure you’re aware, is not great for the environment either.
If you really need your car, great. But what do you define as need? If you only “need” to use a car once a month, perhaps you should consider renting one. I do feel that Brownstone Brooklynites generally have a sense of entitlement about owning car. Most Manhattanites (I know) don’t behave this way. Although I love Brooklyn, it’s one thing I’ve found to be a turn-off about living here.
“‘I’ve never understood why so many Brooklynites seem to feel so entitled to their cars, especially those living in Brownstone neighborhoods.”
What? The car someone works hard to make the payments on is now a privilege? And people in brownstone neighborhoods have less right to car ownership than people in other neighborhoods?
Sorry, but that’s sanctimonious crap and I don’t even own a car.
I’ve never understood why so many Brooklynites seem to feel so entitled to their cars, especially those living in Brownstone neighborhoods. A car is a huge luxury in a metropolis like New York, which provides plenty of public transportation options. Unless you need to use your car daily to get to work or some other equally important reason, maybe you shouldn’t have it, or should live somewhere that accomodates cars more easily. I can’t tell you how many people I know in Park Slope who have cars and use them about once a week, to “get out of town.” Usually this means shopping at a mall on Long Island.
Film production is good for New York – that’s why the city (and the state) has introduced so many new tax breaks to encourage on location filming here.
For those who object to the temporary loss of their usual parking space, you can always rent a spot in a garage, or buy a house in Ditmas Park.
They tow your cars but don’t give you tickets. They just relocate them.
Re: the house on Gates (the small-ish one with the mansard roof profiled and listed with A&H), there were orange traffic cones on the street in front of it and the neighbors yesterday am, and workers were removing the bars from the parlor window of that house (yeah yeah, I’m sure they’ll be reinstalling in light of the “up and coming” nature of the neighborhood:)) I wonder if the house’s unpopular exposed brick wall will be making its film debut.