Site Surveys & Tech Scouting

Here is how the work lines up. Site surveys in New York demand more than a generic walk-through. The five boroughs hold filming settings that range from Times Square crowd density and Hudson Yards glass towers to the cast-iron lofts of SoHo and Tribeca, 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 daily inside the city's permit, noise, and parking ecosystem — lining up with NYPD Movie & TV Unit for street holds, DOT for sidewalk closures, and individual Business Improvement Districts in neighbourhoods such as the Flatiron, Williamsburg, and Astoria where production density creates competing claims on the same blocks.

Each survey begins with a director's brief and concludes with a report your line producer can build a budget from. We capture power draw against the open service in pre-war buildings and post-war high-rises, document acoustic conditions affected by subway rumble and the Lexington Avenue line, map ambient light at the exact time of day on your call sheet, and photograph access for trucks against MTA bus routes and FDNY hydrant clearance.

Deliverables include 360-degree captures, floorplans drawn to NYC building-code language, MOME-aligned permit feasibility, safety risk registers covering crowd control around tourist nodes, and backup plan notes for weather windows tied to East Coast storm seasons. Cross-borough surveys are bundled with subway, ferry, and bridge transit timing so the AD can sequence company moves between Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens without losing daylight.