Broadway Stages is based here, one of the two large stage companies in the city. Most of the housing is wood frame.
What Greenpoint looks like
Greenpoint sits at the top of Brooklyn between Newtown Creek and the East River. Much of it is wood frame houses, two and three stories, with small front yards and low fences.
is the commercial street. There are Polish bakeries, delis and pharmacies along it. A good number of the signs are in Polish. The neighborhood has had a large Polish population since the 1980s.
runs parallel to it. It is lower and quieter, mostly two story buildings with bars and shops in them. The cross streets between them run down toward the river. They are named alphabetically, India then Java then Kent.
Newtown Creek is a working waterway with barges and fuel depots on both banks, and the streets that run down to it end in warehouses and yards rather than parks.
is at the end of Greenpoint Avenue on the East River, where WNYC's radio towers stood until the 1990s. ends at the ferry pier with the Manhattan skyline across the water.
Broadway Stages is based in Greenpoint, one of the two large stage companies in New York. Crews are a common sight and permits are routine.
Films shot in Greenpoint
New York productions use Greenpoint often. Broadway Stages is based here.
Two shows, the same warehouse blocks
Both built their interiors in Greenpoint warehouses and shot the exteriors on the streets outside them.
Rescue Me was shot in a Greenpoint warehouse and on the neighborhood's streets. The Black Donnellys and Lipstick Jungle worked the same way. Productions come here for the varied architecture, the waterfront, the mixed zoning and the light street traffic. The scene on YouTube
The Black Donnellys was shot in a Greenpoint warehouse and on the streets around it, the same way Rescue Me and Lipstick Jungle were. Broadway Stages runs stages across the neighborhood, which is part of why so much location work happens on the blocks near them.
What Greenpoint can double for
Greenpoint can stand in for working class Brooklyn, a river town and industrial New York.
