Site Surveys & Tech Scouting

Site surveys in New York call for more than a generic walk-through. The five boroughs hold filming settings that range from Times Square crowds and the Hudson Yards glass towers to the cast-iron lofts of SoHo and Tribeca. They also cover brownstone blocks across Park Slope and Harlem, the elevated rail corridors of Long Island City, and the industrial waterfronts at Brooklyn Navy Yard near Steiner Studios. Our surveyors hold MOME-issued credentials and work each day inside the city's permit, noise, and parking world. We line up with the NYPD Movie & TV Unit for street holds, DOT for sidewalk closures, and each Business Improvement District in neighbourhoods such as the Flatiron, Williamsburg, and Astoria, where heavy production traffic creates rival claims on the same blocks.

Each survey starts with a director's brief and ends with a report your line producer can budget from. We measure power draw against the open service in pre-war buildings and post-war high-rises. Our crew also logs sound shaped by subway rumble and the Lexington Avenue line, maps ambient light at the exact time on your call sheet, and photographs truck access against MTA bus routes and FDNY hydrant clearance.

Deliverables include 360-degree captures, floorplans drawn in NYC building-code terms, and MOME-aligned permit feasibility. They also carry safety risk registers for crowd control around tourist hubs, plus backup notes for weather windows tied to East Coast storm seasons. Cross-borough surveys come bundled with subway, ferry, and bridge transit timing, so the AD can order firm moves between Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens without losing daylight.