Silver Cup Studios
Posted by beehive on 29 Feb 2008 at 09:50 am | Tagged as: Uncategorized
Commenter Tracy from Pennsylvania wondered about my view of Silvercup Studios, since her favorite show “Rescue Me” is filmed there, soooo…here it is…
It’s the massive block sized building in the center there. It’s surrounded by the on and off ramps to the 59th Street Bridge. I worked in this here building for years before ever finding out that thebuilding pictured was in fact one of the studios of the neighborhood. I always had envisioned the studio to be more Hollywood-like, with an outdoor backlot of sorts, but I guess since NYC itself is the best backlot, actual backlots are fairly useless in NYC.
Please, don’t get excited knowing that the Sex and the City apartment with the stairs is a block away…I have never watched the show, so I’m not sure whose building it’s supposed to be, but I just know that it’s on a historic block over….yeesh.
Silver Cup is also the scene of the ending in Highlander chapter one. They fought all around the building and rooftop until the climatic ending. Back when I was in the offices that you are in now, I remembered them also filming an episode of SATC and they had blocked a few blocks off totally. As result I needed to walk pretty out of my way for the semi crappy restaurant I liked to go to once in a while. I asked what they were filming and they said the front of the building and that she had to walk down the stairs. Nice I was late for that, well, almost kinda, I wasted a lot of time over there and never really rushed back.
KP neighborhoods a changing, new office buildings gone up, another on the way, and the Irish store and other junkie crappy shops are closed up, gonna get demo’d and have a Japanese hotel built there - whatever a Japanese hotel means…
Aww, thanks. Sorry I didn’t see it sooner, been crazy for a few days. Well crazy busy, not crazy crazy. Thanks for thinking of me again.