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BROOKLYN STUDIOS ADD GLOSS TO NY FILM-MAKING
April 3, 2004Financial Times – On the Waterfront, the 1955 film starring Marlon Brando, created an indelible image of the Brooklyn shoreline: a gritty place populated with tough dock workers and corrupt union bosses. Fifty years later the Brooklyn waterfront is playing a new role in cinema.
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AHOY, BUSY PRODUCERS!
January 25, 2004Variety – Gotham production is surging thanks in part to feisty outreach by the Bloomberg administration, a more robust economy and a weak dollar that makes it costlier to film outside the U.S. Come summer, film and TV folk will have another big draw: Steiner Studios, the city’s first gated studio, will open at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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ON BROOKLYN BACK LOT, FINALLY, SOME ACTION
July 21, 2003The New York Times – O.K., it doesn’t exactly look like one. At the moment, Sound Stage 1 of the new Steiner Studios at the Brooklyn Navy Yard is hard-hat country. But every day it’s looking less and less like the weed-choked, rubble-strewn empty lot that cynics said it would forever be. Who could blame them? The highlight reel of plans for movie-studio projects in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island could have been titled ”Gone With the Wind.”
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