6. Broadway Stages is home to one of NYC’s largest film production companies
While manufacturing industry left Greenpoint in the 1960s, there’s been a recent revival in newer types of industry in the neighborhood. Tech companies like Kickstarter have taken up office space in Greenpoint and the neighborhood is also home to one of the largest film production studios in New York City.
Broadway Stages is located on land that was once occupied by John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company, bordering Newtown Creek. The land—both above and below ground—was highly polluted because of a major oil spill in 1979, but ExxonMobil, one of the sub-companies that Standard Oil was divided into following the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, installed lights and sidewalks during the land remediation process. Broadway Stages has been used to film hit shows like Boardwalk Empire, Gotham, The Good Wife, and Royal Pains.
