Film crews flood Brooklyn Heights once again, and local merchants say business is hurting
It’s not your imagination — film crews and their paraphernalia are filling the narrow streets of Brooklyn Heights once again.
Since the beginning of 2018, there have been 157 daily shooting permits issued for ZIP code 11201, according to the city — up from the previous heavy production period in 2015, when there were 130 permits issued.
Back then, following complaints from fed-up Heights locals, the city clamped down on filming from January 2016 through April 2017 in the part of Brooklyn Heights from Pierrepont Street to Atlantic Avenue, between Hicks and Court streets.