Roosevelt Island's Southpoint Park Closed For Film Shoot 10/15-10/17 & How To Get Your Roosevelt Island Film and Photography Permit

Images of Zoolander Cemetery created at Southpoint Park from RIOC

RIOC is reporting an advisory for Southpoint Park:

Southpoint Park will be closed from Wednesday, October 15th through Friday, October 17th to accommodate a film shoot. The park will reopen on Saturday morning.

Many other films and television shows have been shot on Roosevelt Island. According to RIOC:

Principle photography for the Columbia Pictures blockbuster, Spider-Man, was shot on Roosevelt Island and the Roosevelt Island Tramway. Other major feature films such as Anything Else, Autumn in New York, Before Night Falls, Changing Lanes, City Slickers, Conspiracy Theory, Down to Earth, Kate & Leopold, Keeping the Faith, Night Hawks, The Professional, The Secret of My Success, The Yards and Zoolander all contain scenes shot on Roosevelt Island.

In addition to motion pictures, Roosevelt Island locations have been used for television shows such as Law & Order: Criminal Intent, 60 Minutes, The Sopranos, Spin City, Third Watch and Unsolved Mysteries . Commercials, industrials, music videos and documentaries for the BBC and The Discovery Channel have also utilized Roosevelt Island’s unique settings.

Unfortunately, if the proposed Kahn/FDR memorial boondoggle is ever built at the southern tip of Southpoint Park, the most unique and magnificent East River waterfront and NYC skyline views will forever be destroyed and lost forever.

For more information regarding filming or photography shoots on Roosevelt Island, including arranging for required permissions and permits, click here.

Recent Roosevelt Island film and television shoots have included Dennis Leary's Rescue Me and Andy Garcia's City of Light.

UPDATE - 7:30 PM - A clarification to above. I have just learned that Southpoint Park is not being closed because it is being used as a film location but is being closed to the public because it is being used as a parking lot for a film shoot at Goldwater Hospital. According to a RIOC employee:

No film shoot IN southpoint- we're just providing parking. They're filming some scenes for the new show "Life on Mars" at Goldwater, but need more room for parking.