Broadway Stages is bringing another movie production studio to Long Island City. The film and TV production company plans to convert 45-10 19th Avenue, currently a food production facility, into a 30-foot-tall studio, doubling the height of the existing structure there, according to an application filed with the city’s Department of Buildings. Broadway Stages is […]
Long Island City and Astoria Grow Up Alongside Film Industry
The Epoch Times recently published an article noting the changes that Long Island City and Astoria have experienced with the rise of Kaufman Astoria Studios. Reporter Catherine Yang notes how real estate developer George Kaufmann started the change in 1980 with the purchase of the studio property, which had lain vacant and vandal-prone after the […]