By Don Evans
In a gesture intended to partly compensate for its disruptive intrusion into several Brooklyn Heights neighborhoods used as movie locations, one film company has made money gifts to several social and educational entities.

The arrival of a film crew on Tuesday along the Promenade near Montague Street overlapped the departure of another. The new shoot involves scenes for Golden Door, according to posted “No Parking� notices.

One Heights resident complained that notice of this shoot, with cars to be off by 7 p.m. Monday, was not posted until Sunday. He said the city needs to give more advance notice.

Gramercy Productions informed the Brooklyn Heights Association that it has made donations to P.S. 8, St. Francis College, Community Board 2, the BHA and Hope. The gifts were described as “generous� by Judy Stanton, the BHA executive director.

Meanwhile, parking was still banned Tuesday on State Street from Clinton to Court Street as Gramercy removed alterations that had converted at least three residences into a Georgetown (D.C.), setting for Burn After Reading starring Brad Pitt, George Clooney, John Malkovich and Frances McDormand.

The popular actors’ presence attracted large crowds of rubberneckers to the closed streets filled with caravans of trucks, trailers and machinery that crisscrossed the Heights for almost a month. Movie shooting also took place at 146 Hicks Street and on Columbia Heights, Middagh and Poplar Streets, while a dozen large vehicles were parked along Cadman Plaza West.

The film, to be released next year, has Coen brothers Ethan as producer and Joel as director.

Although the film has a CIA agent living in Washington’s Georgetown section, the Coens decided to adapt the Heights as the location so they could remain near their families, Wikipedia reported.

Both historic communities have a broad mix of residential architectural styles. Shutters were added as a Georgetown touch to the almost identical red brick fronts at 167 and 169 State Street. At No. 159, a small structure near the Dawood Mosque, half of the façade was painted red and the other part yellow.

The Coens are scheduled also to film A Serious Man and Hail Caesar for 2009 release.

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