Filming Notorious B.I.G. in Brooklyn last Spring

While walking to the job one day last Spring I came across a shoot at Fulton St. and Washington Ave., Brooklyn, for the film about Biggie Smalls, Notorious B.I.G.
I took some pictures of what is mostly the crew and extras waiting around for the cameras to roll. Then someone told me I couldn't take pictures. But as it was a public street and a public thoroughfare, and they were making me wait to cross until they filmed a particular shot, I decided to take some more photos.

The motorcycle scene.

It was the catering guy who told me what film was being shot. Thank you!

In the middle of it all, NYC Public Works was digging up the street.

Getting ready for the cameras to roll. Oh, this promises to be a good one...

Travellin' Lady

On the Metro North train, arriving from New Haven, CT

In the Hudson Valley

at Barrytown, NY

and then at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. First, the film/video building at Bard, then Frank Gehry's Fisher Center for the Arts, and a kinetic sculpture on the back lawn of Manor House, an old mansion and now a dormitory, looking west towards the Hudson River and the Catskills.

still at Bard College, early evening, a view of the river and the Catskills beyone from the lawn of Blythewood, the haunted mansion that now houses the Levy Economics Institute

Blythewood itself, ghosts and all...

the Blythewood gatehouse, a sexagonal structure not uncommon for the late-19th century architecture of the Hudson Valley

along River Road, Route 103

and the Amtrak train station at Rhinecliff, a town founded by Dutch settlers in the 1600's

the station is a stone's throw from the Hudson River

and here's the train bound for New York

back at Bard College, the woods leading up to Tivoli Bays

The ailanthus, called "tree of heaven," is in bloom right about now.

Belated Birthday Greetings, Margaret

lilacs:brooklyn::margaret:dublin

Coney Island On my Mind

Still in upstate New York and missing Brooklyn, I found a movie I shot one lonely day in late May travelling from Coney Island into Flatbush.