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  Silvercup Studios, neighbors rally : QueensWest.com
Silvercup Studios, neighbors rally against LIC power plant.
Silvercup Studios is planning to file suit seeking to reverse a recent decision paving the way for the $500 million power plant project to move forward.
Silvercup Studios, which owns a parcel abutting the proposed power plant site, is planning to expand its operations but fears that having a generator next to it would render their land virtually useless.
www.queenswest.com /citylights/general/00001825   (653 words)

  
 NYC.gov - Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre & Broadcasting - News Archives
December 4, 2003 Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg visited the set of the new television sitcom Hope and Faith at Silvercup Studios on December 4th, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the historic studio in New York City.
Silvercup Studios would not have flourished in 'Anytown' USA.
After converting the former flour silo room of the landmark Silvercup Bakery into a major film studio in 1983, Harry Suna and his sons Alan and Stuart Match Suna have since expanded the facility to include Silvercup Studios East.
www.nyc.gov /html/film/html/news/12_04_silvercup_20th.shtml   (945 words)

  
 Shooting In New York (Gotham Gazette. February 23, 2004)
Steiner Studios in the Brooklyn Navy Yard will give New York something it hasn't had in one place--a complete production facility with five sound stages, adding up to 100,000 square feet, where there will also be ample space for offices, dressing rooms, post-production facilities and parking.
Silvercup Studios in Queenscelebrated its 20th anniversary in December.
The Silvercup studios just had their best year and are planning expansion.
www.gothamgazette.com /article/issueoftheweek/20040223/200/879   (2377 words)

  
 Real Estate Weekly: Silvercup Studios will expand Queens facilities - New York, New York   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Silvercup Studios, already one of the largest and most active studio complexes in New York City, has announced the expansion of its operations to an additional site in Long Island City, Queens.
The new facility, to be known as Silvercup Studios East, will include five new drive-on studios, each with approximately 16,000 square feet of space and clear ceilings reaching 28 feet.
Silvercup is currently home to two major television series - "Sex and the City" and "The Sopranos," both from HBO.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3601/is_45_45/ai_55609290   (508 words)

  
 Bloomy Praises Studio’s 20 Years - Page 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Joining Silvercup owners Alan and Stuart Suna and the cast of the ABC sitcom "Hope and Faith" on their set, hizzoner celebrated the studio’s two decades of making movies and television shows and its contribution to bringing the film industry to New York.
Silvercup eventually grew into a 400,000-square-feet operation with 18 studios, on-site production offices and extensive set, prop and wardrobe storage areas.
The studio’s most famous productions are the HBO comedy series "Sex and the City," which follows four 30-something women through their maneuverings of relationships and careers, and the HBO drama "The Sopranos," about a therapy-seeking mobster patriarch, starring actor James Gandolfini.
www.queenscourier.com /archives/2003/lead121103b.htm   (2677 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Since opening in what was the former flour silo room of the landmark Silvercup Bakery in 1983, Silvercup Studios in Long Island City has become the largest independent, full-service film and television production facility in the Northeast.
On Tuesday, May 13th, AREW members and guests are invited to attend a tour of the facility hosted by David Von Spreckelsen, director of real estate development for Silvercup Studios.
Silvercup is currently home to HBO’s Sex and the City and The Sopranos; and Queens Supreme starring Oliver Platt.
www.arew.org /edit-new/calenderevents/silvercup.html   (205 words)

  
 New York Women in Film and Television
Silvercup Studios is the largest independent, full-service film and television production facility in the northeastern U.S. The complex comprises a total of 17 shooting spaces on its Main Lot located at 42-22 22nd Street in Long Island City.
Silvercup is has been home to HBO’s Sex and the City and The Sopranos and has hosted QVC’s home shopping channel, Q2, which broadcasts live, 18 hours- per-day.
Kaufman Astoria Studios with the largest stage east of Hollywood, and seven additional stages, has been the place the world’s leading directors and producers have turned to for 80 years.
www.nywift.org /resourceGuide.aspx?ID=18   (282 words)

  
 1010 WINS - ALL NEWS. ALL THE TIME.: Silvercup Studios Celebrates 20 Years   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Silvercup Studios, which started in 1983 with a Cool Whip commercial, has expanded to 18 shooting spaces totaling more than 400,000 square feet.
Silvercup has been among the leaders in bringing to New York film and television productions, an industry that generates $5 billion and 100,000 jobs for the city each year, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday at a ceremony celebrating the anniversary.
More than 400 commercials are produced each year at the studio, which is in an industrial section of the Long Island City neighborhood, for national campaigns that include Wendy's, Old Navy and Victoria's Secret.
1010wins.com /topstories/winstopstories_story_338164827.html   (520 words)

  
 Planet Ark
In the first lawsuit, Silvercup Studios, the maker hit cable shows "Sex in the City" and "The Sopranos", sued to stop construction at one site - Vernon Blvd. in Queens - because Silvercup wanted to build a new studio on the site next to where NYPA was building its power plant.
The judge in the Silvercup case granted the studio's request for a temporary restraining order on Feb. 1, but the order was tied to the studio posting a $5.0 million bond.
On Feb. 16 in another hearing, the judge granted Silvercup a preliminary injunction that was also tied to the studio posting a bond.
www.planetark.com /avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=9895   (709 words)

  
 The Queens Gazette   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
It also ends a lawsuit, brought by Silvercup Studios, which found that NYPA has failed to follow state environmental guidelines in building the mini plants and might have to dismantle the plants.
The agreement calls for Silvercup to maintain its headquarters and principal studios in New York state for at least 10 years and to increase its current employment in Queens by at least 10 percent.
Silvercup would also use its best efforts to agree with NYPA to install energy-efficient features in its new facilities, with the costs to be deducted from the purchase or lease price.
www.qgazette.com /news/2001/1226/Front_Page.html   (1761 words)

  
 Read about Silvercup Studios at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Silvercup Studios and learn about Silvercup Studios ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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 Wired New York Forum - Rogers to Plan Queens Waterfront Complex
Silvercup Studios is a television and movie production studio facility currently located in Long Island City.
The proposed Silvercup West project is intended to expand and enhance their television and movie production operations, improve access to the waterfront, and provide for a mix of uses at the project site.
Also planned are Silvercup Studios West, with 1,000 units, and an Olympic Village with 4,500 apartments if the city wins its bid for the 2012 Games.
www.wirednewyork.com /forum/printthread.php?t=3622   (3169 words)

  
 Variety.com - Silvercup bowls over N.Y.-lovin' producers
Silvercup prexyprexy Stuart Match Suna credits the success of the original studio for landing "Wonderland," which followed Paramount Television's new dramatic series for CBS "Now and Again," also in production at Silvercup Studios East since June.
Silvercup is nearing completion on five 16,000-square-foot stages for Silvercup East, which will increase the facility's capacity to 450,000 square feet, with 18 studios, on-site production offices and extensive set, prop and wardrobe storage areas.
Silvercup has a fully equipped on-site lighting and grip department as well as a lumber yard with set-building supplies.
www.variety.com /article/VR1117760793?categoryid=8&cs=1   (595 words)

  
 Variety-FILM-NY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Shaking up what had previously been a congenial competition in the city between studios, Steiner had quietly devised a way to cut through the politcal maze that had trapped so many in the ongoing battle to create tax relief.
One industry exec says that under such a scenario, a producer would feel "idiotic" if he or she were shooting at a Queens or Manhattan soundstage while the competition got a major tax break just over the bridge in Brooklyn.
Proving the camaraderie that's replaced the summer's bruised egos, execs from KAS, Silvercup and Steiner hit the road together with New York film commish Katherine Oliver and her state counterpart Pat Kaufman in early November to promote the city's new tax advantages.
www.cp.org /premium/Online/Member/variety/041213/1121303AU.html   (969 words)

  
 Long Island City Business Develpment Corporation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The government officials were led on the tour by Alan and Stuart Suna, CEO and president of Silvercup Studios, respectively.
The studio was chosen by the British Consul General, as the Parliamentary members also toured other cities in America to look into urban revitalization.
Location is in fact what drew the film and television industry to Silvercup Studios, even if many of these people did not see crossing the bridge as a viable option.
www.licbdc.org /news/2003/queens-chron-11-06-silvercup-british.htm   (1002 words)

  
 List of New York City Television and Film studios - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Times Square is home to many of the city's TV studios, as well as the heart of New York's theater district.
JC Studios in Midwood, Brooklyn (former studio for The Cosby Show and Another World and current studio for As the World Turns)
Silvercup Studios in Long Island City, Queens (studio for The Sopranos, Sex and the City, and Hope and Faith)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_New_York_City_Television_and_Film_studios   (195 words)

  
 Queens Tribune Feature Story
Unlike the oddly shaped original studios, which had to be built around the anomalies of the bread factory, the $20 million Silvercup East construction will be far more straight forward.
The studio business in which walls, floors, and tables are constructed and demolished daily, seems appropriate for the two architects who enjoy life on the perpetual drawing board.
However, as a result of increased studio space, and a concerted effort on the part of the city to be friendlier to filmmakers, more productions are shooting on location.
www.queenstribune.com /archives/featurearchive/feature99/19   (859 words)

  
 From The Artists Studio Rockaway Artists Alliance by Susan Hartenstein   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Two film studios operating in Queens are the Kaufman Astoria Studios where "Coconuts," the first Marx Brothers feature film, was shot and the Silvercup Studios.
Silvercup Studios, once the factory that made Silvercup Bread, is located at the foot of the Queensborough Bridge.
Many years after, Kaufman was rebuilt and the first film then made was "The Wiz." The studios are located on a 14-acre complex, which also includes Lifetime Television and Lifetime Studios, WFAN radio station and the American Museum of the Moving Image, along with various offices and technical facilities and a 14-screen movie theater.
www.rockawave.com /News/2003/1128/Columnists/018.html   (410 words)

  
 NY Exploring   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Long Island City, NY and#8211; April 2, 2004 and#8211; Ten Explorers participating in the television and film production Exploring post at Silvercup Studios took advantage of an exciting opportunity to see a taping of and#8220;Hope and Faith,and#8221; one of the only television sitcoms taped in the New York area with a live studio audience.
Silvercup Studios, NewYork Cityand#8217;s largest full-service film and television production facility, is currently home to the comedy and#8220;Hope and Faithand#8221; and well as and#8220;The Sopranosand#8221;.
Explorers at the studios engage in tours of sets, lighting demos, discussions with writers and directors, go behind the scenes of a commercial photography studio and perform in a mock casting sessions with the casting director from and#8220;Sex and the City,and#8221; which until its recent series finale, was filmed at Silvercup.
www.nyexploring.org /print.php?sid=34&POSTNUKESID=c05d5fcda7518845386c6b587056680a   (312 words)

  
 BestofQueens2004
Once a vast bakery, Silvercup Studios is now home to some of the most popular television shows.
Once a vast bakery on the western edge of Queens, this year Silvercup Studios discovered in itself a little bit of that New Jersey feeling.
In the wake of the renovations, enthusiastic cyclists again began hosting top level racing events in Flushing, which became something of a ground zero for cycle enthusiasts in the country after the Velodrome was first built.
www.queenstribune.com /guides/BestofQueens2004/Pages/BesatAdditionsin2004.htm   (1291 words)

  
 March 2004 - Production News - iCOM Magazine
The 20th Century Fox production had been shooting at Silvercup Studios since January 19 and is slated to continue filming on location until April 1.
Silvercup has several new feature films in the pipeline as well.” Notable films produced at Silvercup Studios include: Music of the Heart with Meryl Streep, Adam Sandler's Big Daddy, Little Nicky and Mr.
Silvercup Studios is home to the HBO hits, “The Sopranos” and formerly “Sex and the City,” as well as the new ABC hit “Hope & Faith.” Silvercup currently operates 18 studios where hundreds of commercials, music videos, movies and television series are filmed each year.
www.icommag.com /march-2004/production-news.html   (1659 words)

  
 Silvercup Studios - East Lot
Located at 34-02 Starr Avenue in Long Island City, Silvercup Studios East includes five new drive-on studios, each with approximately 16,000 square feet of space and clear ceilings reaching 28 feet in height.
Past projects filmed at Silvercup East have included the television series Hope and Faith, The Education of Max Bickford, Now and Again, Welcome to New York and Big Apple.
Silvercup Studios East provides film makers and television production companies what they need most — a collection of large, tall studios in a single complex, with all of the required amenities.
www.silvercupstudios.com /east.htm   (162 words)

  
 Platform shows   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
As new studios are born and old ones grow, amenities -- not size -- might be everything.
The studio is expanding into a space Silvercup acquired during the late 1990s while also lining up approvals for a much more ambitious space along the East River, south of the Queensboro Bridge.
Silvercup West will include eight 16,000- to 18,000-square-foot soundstages, apartments and museums as well as "650,000 square feet of additional office space and lots of restaurants right on the water," Silvercup CEO Alan Suna says.
www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/film/feature_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000629088   (861 words)

  
 Printer Friendly Version - A tax cutaway shot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The windfall is expected to primarily fall on the city's major studios including Silvercup Studios and Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, Steiner Studios in Brooklyn and Manhattan's Chelsea Piers Studios.
The studio is slated to open in October.
Stuart Suna, president of Silvercup Studios, a full-service production studio in Long Island City, which saw the production of "The Sopranos" and "Sex and the City," said word of the pending legislation has already had a significant impact on the city.
www.nydailynews.com /boroughs/v-pfriendly/story/223032p-191643c.html   (461 words)

  
 Mayor Hails Queens Film Industry by linda j. Wilson
He hailed LICBDC for spotlighting the Kaufman Astoria and Silvercup Studios as special honorees, noting that the film industry is one of the borough’s greatest assets.
Hal Rosenbluth of Kaufman Astoria Studios and Stuart and Alan Suna of Silvercup Studios were honored for their efforts in bringing about the resurgence of the film and television industry in Queens.
The Suna brothers, whose father was a founding member of the LICBDC, bought the vacant Silvercup Bread bakery in 1980, opened Silvercup Studios in 1983, and so took the occasion to celebrate their 20th year in business.
www.qgazette.com /news/2003/1119/Front_Page/001.html   (909 words)

  
 2-10-01 Rally   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Peter Vallone Jr., CHOKE’s legal counsel, spoke of the legal steps being taken by various organizations including Silvercup Studios to halt the construction of the generating plant.
Silvercup Studios, a producer of TV programs had planned the construction of a new large studio complex in the area of the turbine generating station.
But the noise factor caused by the generating moors is making Silvercup re-examine their plans and may abandon their proposal and even move (according to newspaper reports) to New Jersey.
www.chokequeens.com /2-10-01%20RALLY.htm   (528 words)

  
 Trivia for Highlander (1986)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The final fight scene that takes place at the Silvercup studios (the sign is used in a few shots) used to be a bakery for the Silvercup bread company that had gone out of business a few years earlier.
During the final fight sequence between McLeod and Kurgan on the roof of the Silvercup Studios building, cables can be seen in the foreground pulling the studio's neon sign down.
Sean Connery and Christopher Lambert got along so well during filming that they called each other by their characters' names even when they were not filming and it was at Lambert's insistence that Connery and his character returned for the sequel.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0091203/trivia   (1046 words)

  
 news views and analysis: How Green is my Roof ?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
As temperatures soared over 90 degrees and New York City broke records for electricity use at the end of July, landscapers were installing a "green" roof at Silvercup Studios in Long Island City, Queens, where parts of the HBO series "The Sopranos" are filmed.
Proponents of the project, which has been two years in the making, are hoping to use data collected from it to convince commercial property owners and developers that not only are green roofs good for the environment, they can benefit the bottom line.
Balmori estimates the outlay will be about $10 a square foot, not including the structural engineering costs paid for by Silvercup Studios, or the yearlong study to be undertaken by the Earth Pledge Foundation, a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization based in New York.
www.wadias.in /site/arzan/blog/archives/2005/08/how_green_is_my.html   (1446 words)

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