Car Filming Services

Here is how the work lines up. Car filming in New York runs along the city's most cinematic corridors — the FDR Drive curving past the East River, the West Side Highway through Riverside Park, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Brooklyn Heights, the I-87 Major Deegan up to the Bronx, the I-95 Bruckner Expressway and the iconic crossings at the Brooklyn, Manhattan, Williamsburg, George Washington, Verrazzano-Narrows and Robert F. Kennedy bridges.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Tracking-car work draws on the Chapman/Leonard New York fleet, Cinetech NY camera cars and the Sandcrane mounting-rig stock, with Russian Arm ops based out of Brooklyn and Long Island City handling the gyro-stabilised crane work that has covered Uncut Gems, Good Time, John Wick Chapter 2, Marvel's Spider-Man NY pickups and the recent Marvelous Mrs. Maisel period plates.

Here is how the picture comes together. Process trailers, low-loaders and insert cars cover the dialogue plates and interior-rig work that feature production demands, with the marine variant of the same rigs handling Hudson River, East River and New York Harbor boat-mount sequences for the Bond, Mission Impossible and Apple TV+ slate. Upstate Hudson Valley, Long Island parkway and Catskills corridors extend the operating area for shoots that need open-road plates.

Here is what we have to work with. Permit work runs through the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) Made in NY film permit, the NYPD Movie & TV Unit for street closures, the MTA Bridges & Tunnels office for any bridge or tunnel filming, and the NYS Department of Transportation for state-route and Thruway shoots. The autostrade-matching corridors — the FDR, BQE, I-87, I-95 and Long Island Expressway — need major lead time and dedicated traffic-management plans, with the NYPD Highway Patrol lining up rolling closures and the Port Authority involved for tunnel and crossings under their regions.

Here is the layout. Stunt drivers are sourced through the Teamsters Local 817 driver pool — the same group that has covered the major New York features and episodic shows for decades — with precision drivers skilled on the Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche and Aston Martin brand work that flows through the Madison Avenue agency network. The 30% New York State Film Tax Credit with the 10% NYC uplift applies to qualifying car-unit spend. Our coordinators handle the Empire State Development forms alongside the IATSE Local 600 camera-crew and Local 817 driver records through final audit.