Signs posted in the Crown Heights neighborhood today announced Tow-Away zones on many blocks of Kingston Avenue and Crown Street tonight, Sunday, October 27, starting at 10 pm.
The signs state that the no parking zones are to accommodate a non-Jewish movie shoot being filmed in the area.
The tow-away zone is on Kingston Avenue from Montgomery Street to Carroll Street and Crown Street from Kingston Avenue to New York Avenue.
The Tow-Away zone will start from 10:00pm tonight, Sunday night, and all day Monday.
Dozens of Jewish residents reached out to COLlive and expressed frustration with Brooklyn Community Board 9, who are responsible to inform the neighborhood residents of such events.
“We were not given time to move our vehicles and prevent them from being towed,” one of them said. “They failed to notify us in advance.”
Another resident complained that a secular movie being filmed in the heart of the Chassidic area of the neighborhood was “insensitive” to the lifestyle and culture of locals.
Yaacov Behrman, a longtime community board member, told COLlive: “I reached out to the community board office today. They first received the notice on Thursday during Yom Tov and couldn’t reach anyone. They said that they absolutely share the community’s concerns and frustrations and will express these issues to the city.”
Both Kingston Ave and Crown Street will also be closed to vehicle traffic.
CH will be a gridlock zone and danger for emergency vehicles that will have a delayed response
Sure the filmmakers are paying local officials for use of street space … They should pay for the reparking of all the misplaced vehicles.
This is irresponsible government, on a local level. Residence should be able to determine whether they agree to an imposition of their daily life, or not. Especially, after a month of YT , when everyone is just about to start a normal life, work , school schedule.
School buses won’t be able to operate normally Monday with all the street closures.
Our children will spend 2 hours on the bus, if it even arrives since Kingston is being shut down for traffic.
NYC hates it’s residents, and Community Board 9 doesn’t know the residents they are allegedly supposed to represent.
This should of never gotten approved.
If not for COL, we would find out about this in morning with our cars towed
And we should also compensate people who lose sleep and their parking because of simchas Beis….. we can’t complain about one day when we inconvenience the community for a week.
Has been happening for many years and it serves the community whether some in the community don’t like it.
We are used to it and deal with it. “Parking and driving” is an issue only at night here it is during the day when busses and cars need to get across.
This is so not called for
Community Board 9 in Brooklyn needs to get sued, first they approved all the homeless shelters in Crown Heights, then the citi bike racks on every other street, then the protected bike lanes, then the new MTA bus route on Albany Ave and MTA more buses on Empire Blvd.
They are part of the problem, not the solution.
For CH attorneys, sue, sue and sue.
Many of those things are actually good for many of us, like the citi bike racks, the protected bike lanes, the bus route on Albany Ave and the extra buses on Empire Blvd. Not everyone in the community has a car.
Don’t blame a shortcoming to cause inconvenience for thousands.
Bike racks are good but we have way too many.
Sue the city. Until then, move your cars. No special treatment. Who do you think you are?
We don’t need a movie being filmed here! We should all protest!!
Disgusting! What would the Rebbe say! I’m nauseous 😫
Why are they taking over the center of a Lubavitch neighborhood for their shmutz just after Yom Tov? Surely they can find a more appropriate time and place.
Bet there are some Jews involved in the filming that need to be reached
the film is called “caught stealing” and has two yiddin in the supporting cast.
Reaching out to yidden, doesn’t justify the movie filming.
וכידוע המעשה של החסיד שרצה ללכת
לראות מובי ולהראות
קונץ שיכול לשמור את עצמו מהדברים האסורים!!
we should hang up massive shev mitzvos posters
It’s interesting to note that many street repairs, Verizon, coned, nat grid repairs all of sudden need to happen during the busiest months.
Now this? Where is our leadership?
Just because you don’t like something doesn’t mean it’s antisemitic. Come on – there’s a lot of that going around, let’s focus on the actual hatred, not scheduling issues that don’t work for you.
Interesting, they can’t find a better month to do it in?
Always tishrei or Chanukah and pesach. Last year pesach was the same. Can’t it wait until Yom tov is over. Go convince someone else that it is not motivated to get back at us yidden
I walked down Crown, and by 8pm, they were already towing cars
Timestamp video cameras footage and dashcam footage and SUE every NYC agency involved in this recklessness. They towed 2 hours early before they legally decided they can tow away the cars from a district that’s not interested in this movie
They relocated it not towed for a fee
When making a problem for every single thing distict 9 does is irratable
When you always complain they had no right for the small why should 9th district board give us anything
Politics is sometimes allowing and not complaining about the small stuff and fighting the big stuff that will effect your day to day life
The big stuff are the homeless shelters. Brooklyn community board 9 apparently thinks that putting homeless criminals in a primary black neighborhood of East Flatbush (11203) will benefit those residents.
That’s racial discrimination against the black community.
And what solutions has board 9 brought us? I’m talking about real positive changes. Nothing nada zilch. Waste of time
In all fairness, weren’t the streets closed for nearly a week because of Simchas Beis? You can’t have your cake and eat it, too. It sucks, no doubt. But it’s the price we pay for the city in which we live. It is what it is – don’t make a chillul hashem, certainly the last thing we need is bad PR.
We don’t live in a ghetto. You can speak up.
As mentioned by someone above. Simchas beis is different for a few reasons
Every night for Simhas Beis it was closed and no one complained. Be grateful and happy and maybe even famous for a day
can we watch the movie filming from? sounds entertaining
This is the 6th movie/TV show filmed in crown heights in the last 4 months.
Hot spot. Move your cars.
Unfortunately we all have to follow the same rules. Its not just about the Jewish community and there issues. There should be no special privileges. MOVE YOUR CARS. You can barely drive up kingston ave on any given day. Give it a break.
Unfortunately we all have to follow the same rules. Its not just about the Jewish community and there issues. There should be no special privileges. MOVE YOUR CARS. You can barely drive up kingston ave on any given day. Give it a break.
Many streets in CH also had no parking recently multiple times for filming a show called Godfather of Harlem, around President, Carroll and Schenectady.
Great. The permit process has been in affect a long long time. The rules apply to everyone.
Put up signs in the filming area about these Mitzvos
$50 to whoever can get lev schreiber to put on teffilin…
or give a neshek kit to zoe kravitz
Disrespectful, and exact opposite of Ahavas Yisrael demonstrated through all types dancing ba’achdus on Simchas Torah, the very brocha that emanates from unity. This is the critical time to actualize all we’ve recommitted to over Yom Tov, barely a day ago. 👊🏻
Why was it bad?
U always want to do mivtziom
From what I hear a girl from the high school on the block gave out neshek to the cast.
Yes Bh
Don’t be in front of homes across the street from the filming. They boss you around and tell you to move. Just hoping this film will not contribute in anyway to antisemitism
If you don’t like it.
You can tell residents in ch who rented their homes for the movie not to do it in the future.
Money shouldn’t breach standards