Local Fixer Services

Here is the layout. New York is one of the two global capitals for production fixing — the other being Los Angeles —. The NYC fixer market has serviced each major American studio feature, prestige TV series and foreign-language unit that has filmed in the five boroughs for the past forty years.

Here is how the work shapes up. The same fixer families and crew bases that worked The Godfather, Taxi Driver, Saturday Night Fever, Goodfellas, the Sidney Lumet catalogue and the Woody Allen NYC run have spent the modern decades on The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Boardwalk Empire, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Succession, Severance, Billions, the Marvel and DC NYC units, and the foreign shoots visiting NYC from Europe, Korea, Japan, India and Latin America. Our NYC fixers come out of that lineage.

Here is how it adds up. They carry direct working relationships at MOME (Made in NY), the NYPD Movie & TV Unit, the Brooklyn Borough President's film office, the Queens Film Office, NYC Parks, the MTA Movie & TV Unit for subway and bridge location filming, the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission and the FDNY film safety officer chain. They route the NY State 30% film tax credit plus 10% NYC uplift plus the 30-35% post-prod uplift through Empire State Development's PCN/PTC certification workflow. They handle O-1B / O-2 / P-1 visa planning with USCIS for global crew along with ATA Carnet gear clearance through JFK and Newark.

Here is the run-down. On the ground the role is pure NYC permit-and-precinct navigation. Our fixers manage MOME permits across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island, set up with the NYPD Movie & TV Unit for street closures, parking suspensions and intersection control by precinct, route each aerial application through the dual FAA Part 107 plus NYPD drone permit setup with 30 days advance lead time, handle MTA filming applications for Grand Central concourse, Penn Station, subway platforms and bus depots with platform shutdowns timed against published service, secure NPS commercial filming permits for the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Governors Island, Federal Hall and the African Burial Ground, handle NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission frames in historic districts, and set up Central Park Conservancy, Prospect Park Alliance, Brooklyn Bridge Park, the High Line and Coney Island for park and boardwalk filming.

Studio access at Steiner Brooklyn Navy Yard, Silvercup Long Island City, Kaufman Astoria, York Studios Bronx, JC Studios and Broadway Stages is booked through long-standing NYC production relationships, and 24/7 problem-solving runs through the union and community-board network when a shoot day shifts.