Mr. Pincus said. We are inundated with movies here. De Niro was here. The generators under people's windows are noisy, and parking is a great problem. But the city is loath to scare off film companies.
Movies are big business in New York.
The Streisand team, for example, hired local building supers to keep people from walking through the set. And they paid money to buildings up and down West End Avenue. The co-op added a special clause in its contract to protect the lobby's Carrera marble. The late spring was partly to blame for the delay. The crew traversed the neighborhood earlier in the year, affixing fake foliage to the street's barren trees for a springlike finale.