page_title: Douglas C. Steiner
section_title: Steiner Studios
hierarchical_section_title: Douglas C. Steiner / Steiner Studios
caption_attribution_description: Aerial view of the U.S. Navy Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York, circa 1965. The aircraft carrier in dry dock is USS Intrepid (CVS-11), which underwent a major overhaul from April to September 1965. The shipyard was closed on 23 February 1966. It had been in operation for 165 years with 93 ships being constructed at the yard.
context_page_description: Douglas Craig Steiner is a Brooklyn-based real estate developer who is notable for developing properties in New Jersey and New York and other states. In addition, he is notable for being the chairman of Steiner Studios in Brooklyn, New York, the largest studio in the United States that is east of Los Angeles.
context_section_description: The father-son team created a film and TV production company called Steiner Studios. In 1999, they won the right to develop the Brooklyn Navy Yard into a film and TV production complex, which opened in 2004. The Yard had been a massive military complex, which closed in 1966, and later became a manufacturing center. Developing the complex had been projected to cost around $400 million and would require twelve years to finish. Plans called for an underwater stage as well as restoration of the Naval hospital, originally built in 1838 using marble. The transformation of the Brooklyn Navy Yard had been forecast to be completed by 2018.
  Numerous films and TV shows have been made at the production facility, including the 2006 movie Fur starring Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr., the 2005 film The Producers starring Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane and Uma Thurman, as well as Spider-Man, Sex and the City, and Boardwalk Empire. The Steiner Studios site is 15 acres, according to several reports. The site has been expanded numerous times to include a parking lot with 1000 spots and five massive interconnected state-of-the-art soundstages. Development was beset by obstacles such as the September 11 attacks in 2001 as well as cutbacks in a tax-credit program by New York State in 2009. He helped bring in Wegmans supermarkets to the Brooklyn Navy Yard project. In addition, he led efforts to bring academic programs focused on media to the city; for example, he worked with Carnegie Mellon to offer an "integrated media program" consisting of an academic program focused on the arts and technology, in conjunction with Steiner Studios; and he has worked with the City University of New York to have its Barry R. Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema located at Steiner Studios.
caption: Aerial view of the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1965, with the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid. The Navy abandoned the site in 1966.
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