Is "New Amsterdam" filmed in the city?

On Mar 4, 11:43 pm, Vince <vi...@vbphoto.net> wrote:
> hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> > On Mar 4, 10:47 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@> wrote:
>
> >>at the top of a subway
> >>stair with chrome fence and handrail and in the next shot, they'd made
> >>137th St. into a central-platform station (even with "College" showing
> >>on part of a sign!) bearing no relation to the 137th St. station
>
> > What station (or stations) was used for the filming of the subway
> > scenes?

And they sure didn't look like 1 trains.

It wasn't clear whether they were showing one side of an express
station, or a center-platform local station. Maybe it was a set.

> > It's been a few years since I've seen the subway CCTV monitors.  Does
> > today's subway CCTV have that high of a resolution for what he was
> > doing on his computer later on?  Even with today's cheap technology,
> > storing that kind of resolution requires considerable storage space.
> > That is, it's technically possible, but very expensive to do so.

Highly unlikely. The conductors' monitors, used in curved stations,
are nothing like that.

> > I also wonder how much CCTV, now very commonplace in stores and the
> > like, deters crime, or helps solve committed crimes.  Some of the
> > images shown on local news from a store robbery are awfully fuzzy and
> > hard to discern, plus if the perp keeps his or her head down and wears
> > a hood, their face is nearly obscured.
>
> >>If the guy has lived in New York for 400 years, howcome he doesn't
> >>have a New York accent?
>
> > Lots of New Yorkers don't have an accent.

Not born-and-bred ones. And this guy has been here 400 years. (Or
maybe not: the local Delaware (Lenni-Lenape) didn't use wigwams/
tepees, so maybe he got Immortalized somewhere else and moved here
later. Not to mention that 1608 was a year before Henry Hudson dropped
by, and several years before the first Dutch settlement, and they
wouldn't have been speaking English anyway.)

Yesterday Brian Lehrer had an NYU grad student talking about dialect
differentiation between the boroughs, and she made the cardinal
mistake of telling a guy who called in insisting that he doesn't have
a "New York accent" that he certainly did. (Usually people learn such
things when they first hear a tape of themselves. Apparently he never
had.) But a great deal of a person's self-image is invested in their
perception of their own speech patterns, and for someone to be told by
an ostensible professional that he's been fooling himself for 30 years
is severely counterindicated in the sociolinguistic literature.
(Besides, she didn't even get the difference between "can"/be able and
"can"/tin can right, a difference that almost no one but New Yorkers
make. In Philadelphia it's quite different.)

> >>I don't know whether being like Highlander is a recommendation, but on
> >>the basis of the pilot, it doesn't seem like something crying out to
> >>be returned to.
>
> > Like other Fox stuff, this show seemed to have its extra share of
> > cliches that I can live without.  I give the L&O series credit; they
> > avoid some of the hokey syrupy "relationship" cliches, though SVU has
> > its own set of cop show cliches.
>
> > (Though ABC Family's Kyle and Wildfire are superloaded with cliches.)

Is Kyle still on? The first season (as shown on broadcast) was ok, and
in the second season it completely lost focus.

It's nice that Dexter is now on CBS Sunday nights -- I wonder how much
has been edited out to make it fit for broadcast.

> >>Especially since the next episode is opposite Lost on Thursday, and
> >>then it settles into its regular timeslot on Monday.
>
> > I hate TV that juggles shows all around the week.  A show should be on
> > the same time every week, not constantly adjusted.

Generally they are. But it's common these days to put an introductory
episode in a high-profile slot (this one, after American Idol) so as
to hook the viewer before it moves to its regular slot -- with a
premiere opposite Heroes, it wouldn't have a chance.

Because of the strike, they simply don't have any programming
available for the rest of the week, so they fill in a slot with the
next episode of this one.

> Overall the EP was a bit slow and dull, BUT lets give it some time.
> I agree with the old gent, if you're immortal whats the big deal about
> becoming mortal again?
> Unlike HIGHLANDER he IS the only one. Never understood that part anyway
> on HL "there can only be one" mean feat seeing as immortals were being
> created all the time on the shows, they had happily married couples who
> were immortal now you know they're not going to rush to kill one another.

Obviouisly the shaman knew what she was doing, so there must be plenty
of immortals (or maybe all the rest of them found their soulmates
within a few decades). Another weirdness: the big revelation about the
rich suspect's alibi was that he had a boyfriend -- which had
absolutely no bearing on the plot.

On Mar 5, 1:48 pm, "Joseph D. Korman" <joe...@> wrote:

> Part of the words *Grand Central* are visible in some of the overhead
> shots, but I'm not sure it was on the Lex.  I don't think it was on the
> shuttle because the tiles look different in some of the shots I made in
> 2004.  It was definitely an island platform, ruling out the real 137th
> St.  Though one real feature was that the chase started at 125th under
> the viaduct and ended at 137th, not unreasonable.

Not after taking the bike down to the river (HHP) level -- and then
back up again?

On Mar 5, 6:16 pm, hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> On Mar 5, 1:48 pm, "Joseph D. Korman" <joe...@> wrote:
>
> > StThough one real feature was that the chase started at 125th under
> > the viaduct and ended at 137th, not unreasonable.
>
> I could never run that kind of distance.

If they hadn't made the detour down to the river and back up again, it
would be well under half a mile (uphill), because 125th is on its
angle there.

On Mar 8, 1:14 am, hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> On Mar 7, 11:45 am, "Joseph D. Korman" <joe...@> wrote:
>
> > I haven't had time to re run the DVR, but I'm leaning more to the shots
> > being done on the shuttle platforms at Grand Central.  The tile designs
> > do look different from my shots in 2004, but it explaind the track
> > between two platforms.
>
> Also, there's plenty of room and track to film without interfering
> with revenue service.
>
> I still think through trains from the east side to west side via 42nd
> Street would be popular with passengers.
>
> I wonder if there was protest when the through service was cut off and
> converted into shuttle service when more legs of the IRT were
> finished.
>
> Anyone have a date on when that happened?

The "H" system went into effect on 1 August 1918, but the shuttle was
closed from 2 August to 29 September 1918.

On Mar 8, 12:01 pm, "Joseph D. Korman" <joe...@> wrote:
> Joseph D. Korman wrote:
> > hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>
> >> On Mar 5, 7:55 am, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@> wrote:
>
> >>> And they sure didn't look like 1 trains.
>
> >>> It wasn't clear whether they were showing one side of an express
> >>> station, or a center-platform local station. Maybe it was a set.
>
> >> In tonight's episode they showed the station again.  At the very end I
> >> saw a glimpse of a sign "42".  There were multiple platforms, but with
> >> a single track between them.
>
> > I haven't had time to re run the DVR, but I'm leaning more to the shots
> > being done on the shuttle platforms at Grand Central.  The tile designs
> > do look different from my shots in 2004, but it explaind the track
> > between two platforms.
>
> > I'll try tonight, as there's nothing new on TV tonight.
>
> I got to look at the DVR today.  Most of the platform shots are on the
> shuttle platform at Grand Central.  The tile work on the walls is the
> same as my 2004 shots:

Over to the right there's a sign with a purple dot and two green dots.
Definitely the GCT end of the shuttle.

On Mar 6, 10:11 pm, hanco...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> On Mar 5, 7:55 am, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@> wrote:

Unlike ABC's, Fox's website doesn't make you look at commercials
between the acts.

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> One possible inconsistency:  They said the British teacher was off the
> hook for her affair with the boy since he was 17 and thus legal age.
> But teachers on L&O SVU and real life get nailed for that because
> teachers have an "authority" relationship with a student.

Different states have different laws -- I had the impression they were
at Brown (Providence, RI), but later they seemed to be saying
"Drake" (which is somewhere down south). But the campus of wherever-it-
was looked just like L & O's Hudson U.