{"id":346,"date":"2015-07-08T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2015\/07\/08\/filming-permit-map-reveals-nycs-hotspots-in-film\/"},"modified":"2015-07-08T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T17:27:00","slug":"filming-permit-map-reveals-nycs-hotspots-in-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2015\/07\/08\/filming-permit-map-reveals-nycs-hotspots-in-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Filming permit map reveals NYC&#8217;s hotspots in film"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/metrocosm.com\/web\/film-permits-map-nyc.html\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"293\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-6psV_k90M00\/VZ1dP6FNf_I\/AAAAAAAABw8\/sV8KT5_xUi8\/s320\/nycfilming.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Many of us who do not often visit New York City are still intimately familiar with its iconic buildings and streets mainly because of its over-representation in film and television. Every other sitcom takes place in Manhattan, and aliens have destroyed the New York skylines more times than we can count. This keeps NYC&#8217;s film office exceptionally busy, issuing thousands of permits every year to large and small productions filming on public property.<\/p>\n<p>New York-focused data visualization group Metrocosm got their hands on over 10,000 filming permits issued from 2011 to 2013 and <a href=\"http:\/\/metrocosm.com\/web\/film-permits-map-nyc.html\">plotted them on a map<\/a>, revealing which streets see the most action. Unsurprisingly, Times Square and the classically styled Financial District saw the most play, but you might notice a few other zones of interest. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/metrocosm.com\/filmed-in-nyc-3-years-517-movies-17241-filming-locations\/\">Metrocosm&#8217;s analysis<\/a>, those correspond to the city&#8217;s outdoor and non-private film studios, including the massive indoor space at the 47th Regiment Armory.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve most interested in productions that shot on the side-streets. Magician thriller <i>Now You See Me<\/i> shot extensively in Long Island City, and that&#8217;s a little more exciting than seeing the Flatiron Building again.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us who do not often visit New York City are still intimately familiar with its iconic buildings and streets mainly because of its over-representation in film and television. Every other sitcom takes place in Manhattan, and aliens have destroyed the New York skylines more times than we can count. This keeps NYC&#8217;s film [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}