Bowery Boogie | A Lower East Side Chronicle

So far this summer, the Lower East Side has been wrought with a bevy of film shoots – Step Up 3D, Date Night, Gossip Girl, and Get Him to the Greek – each exploiting our neighborhood, blocking streets, and restricting sidewalk access.  Mass inconvenience.  Well, it’s time to add another production to that list.  On [...]

After a week of filming in the Lower East Side, Step Up 3D is back in Greenwich Village. All day yesterday, Washington Square Park was co-opted for the latest Disney set. And an elaborate one at that – a giant cherry picker sat near the fountain with a white screen dangling from its [...]

As if Step Up 3D isn’t enough to overwhelm the Lower East Side, there are two other features filming in the neighborhood this week. Remember Me (Robert Pattinson) is finished with Mott Street and will be in the area later today; Date Night (Tina Fey, Steve Carell) will be filming tomorrow evening through the next [...]

Production for Step Up 3D is now located inside the vacant Essex Market Building D at the corner of Broome and Essex Streets. Panavision vehicles and port-a-potties are present, readying the set for next week’s shoot. And from the look of it, a major scene might be filmed here.

All afternoon, the doors have [...]