How much $ is the museum getting to take our parking spots?

How much money is the museum getting to let "New Year's Eve" film there? The city for our parking spots?

Is this a paying member asking?

Yes. When you put it that way I feel I have the right to know.

aha! so that was what was happening!

I got a ride home from work the other day and there was a big bus unloading tons of people onto Classon Avenue near St Johns -- they were all dressed up like they were going to a fancy party and had masks on like for a ball or something. But it was 4 in the afternoon.

It's all coming together now...

Hopefully a lot and it helps continue to fund a great institution.

Saw the same thing when walking my daughter to school (PS 316 at corner of Park & Classon). Busload of people in party clothes being unloaded into the big church on the opposite corner at 8:am. It was wierd.

whatever they are getting it is helping them out of debt and reducing the effect of city budget cuts....also some of the spaces are being taken up equiptment related to the renovetion at the botanic garden

thursday is the last day

$300

Production companies no longer film for free in New York City

"Senior Bloomberg administration officials were to tell representatives from Hollywood studios, advertising and labor unions on Tuesday about the proposed $300 fee for films, commercials, music videos and television series.

To be sure, $300 is a barely noticeable budget line in most multimillion-dollar television and screen projects, and most major cities -- including Los Angeles, New York's major film competitor -- already charge permit fees. But the change is an about-face in policy for a city that has long prided itself on uniquely providing free permits and other perks to lure projects to shoot in the iconic Big Apple."

Read more: http://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Production-companies-no-longer-film-for-free-in-464197.php#ixzz1DYkdT2cZ

Read more: http://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Production-companies-no-longer-film-for-free-in-464197.php#ixzz1DYkFI5KL

@etccdb $300 doesn't even pay the salary of the guy who put the orange cones and yellow NYE fliers up on the street.

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I'm pretty sure those guys worked for the film company, not the museum or the city.

$300 isn't the amount the museum property was rented for, that's just the price for the permit...

And $300 is just for filming in NYC. A permit for street parking will run hundreds sometimes thousands of dollars, but it goes to the city. Depending on how many days, how much the shoot impacts the museum's business, etc, the museum is probably getting at least a few thousand dollars.