Person Of Interest Film Crew Transform Roosevelt Island Into Berlin - It's Easy With A Little Bit Of German Signage
Image Of Person Of Interest Filming Today On Roosevelt Island From David Enock
It's been said many times before that:
... Roosevelt Island's drab, dreary and depressing Main Street has often been compared to East Berlin prior to the fall of the Wall or even The Village from the great British Television program The Prisoner....Apparently, the Person of Interest TV program currently filming
Image Of Person Of Interest Filming Today On Roosevelt Island From David Enock
on Roosevelt Island agrees:
Crew filming on Roosevelt Island this morning. They had the street dressed to look like Berlin. I've always said R.I. looked vaguely soviet.Despite the freezing weather, Main Street next to the Trellis Diner was transformed into an outdoor Berlin coffee bar
— Paul Sahner (@paulsahner) January 22, 2013
and Good Shepherd Plaza became Leipziger Plaza
Image From David Enock
Image From David Enock
Mark Lyon tweets:
Today, @rooseveltisland makes use of its architecture. twitter.com/markhlyon/stat…
— Mark Lyon (@markhlyon) January 22, 2013
David Enock shares more Main Street and Motorgate Garage photos of Roosevelt Island's transformation to Berlin via the magic of TV.
UPDATE 1/23 - Pop Culture Brain adds:
I used to live on Roosevelt Island so I just wanted to chime in here and say 1) it’s sad how easily they were able to make it look like East Berlin but 2) it’s even more sad that it looks better as East Berlin.
