Big Fire on 9th Street?
This just in from a tipster: “I was just running and saw that the Fire dept. has shut down 9th street between 7th & 8th Avenue. Tons of fire trucks. Not sure what’s happening.”
This just in from a tipster: “I was just running and saw that the Fire dept. has shut down 9th street between 7th & 8th Avenue. Tons of fire trucks. Not sure what’s happening.”
And if Sex and the City wasn’t shot here, none of you would have moved here…
Great, by that logic, Christopher, all of us individual New Yorkers ought to renounce our American and New York citizenship and become residents of offshore tax havens, because if we still lived here, we would still be buying gas in New York City and paying sales tax on our restaurant meals and tolls when we drive over bridges. The IRS and the New York State tax department would laugh at (or prosecute) an ordinary New Yorker who tried that, but somehow these Hollywood types get away with it. Drives me nuts.
I’m with “commenter3” about film crews. IMO they harm vastly more people than they employ. I think they should have to shoot on their own property, no matter how many jobs might be lost.
“Okay, then, why is the rental company based in PA ?? Because it doesn’t want to pay taxes in NY, or the higher NY insurance rates that those of use who don’t get special tax breaks do pay.”
Posted by: commenter3 at March 25, 2009 1:42 PM
Who cares? They come here, hire local people, and contribute to the local economy. A “tax incentive” is not “not taxes at all”. The need to gas up, guess what, it’s an NYC gas station and all applicable taxes and revenue.
The driver is a NYS resident? Guess what? NYS taxes are taken out of their check.
Tax incentives are not free passes from all expenses. And guess what, no tax incentive no movie shoot. No movie shoot no trucks to gas up, no tolls paid, no taxes on the now unemployed crew, no revenue for the city at all.
Tax incentives add revenue because they generate business and create expansion. Without them the business goes elsewhere and the city loses everything.
Good one Snarky.
Okay, then, why is the rental company based in PA ?? Because it doesn’t want to pay taxes in NY, or the higher NY insurance rates that those of use who don’t get special tax breaks do pay.
“And FYI, the movie people when shooting here employ a lot of local folks. Good union jobs. Those trucks with the Pennsylvania address are normally parked in Red Hook or at the Navy Yard.”
Posted by: 5w30 at March 25, 2009 1:09 PM
Agreed. They have PA plates because the rental company is based there.
The tax breaks for film co’s is a great thing. Brings tons to money in to the city, they crew local people, local homeowners and businesses get compensated, if the city cuts the tax incentives and the films leave the city will be hurting a lot more without them than ever possible with the tax breaks.
Knuckleheads.
It was a REAL fire. In the cleaners next to Dizzy’s. Fire went all the way up to the top floor. Yes, it did look unreal for a while, as the movie trucks co-existed with the fire apparatus.
And FYI, the movie people when shooting here employ a lot of local folks. Good union jobs. Those trucks with the Pennsylvania address are normally parked in Red Hook or at the Navy Yard.
Ahhh, that explains those marching lines of brooms carrying buckets.