Was this photograph taken yesterday on the set of Steven Soderbergh’s new mini-series The Knick, or was it taken back in the 1910s? The answer is at the bottom of this blog post!
This week, a little stage magic is manifesting in the Lower East Side. The Broome Street of 2013 has been turned briefly into the Broome Street of 1910! Steven Soderbergh has been shooting his new mini-series The Knick in New York this week, a tale of old Knickerbocker Hospital set over a century ago. This required the boutique-and-lounge strewn Broome be reverted to its days of immigrants, wagons and pushcarts.
Tom wandered through the set last night and took these photographs:
Hay, it’s one of the Bowery Boys!
Interestingly,. there’s an actual Stag’s Head up on 51st Street!
6 replies on “The Lower East Side went back in time this week”
incredible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very cool! Check out this book coming out in March about Brooklyn’s waterfront Irish gangs too… http://artofneed.wordpress.com
I remember when they filmed Ragtime, in the late 1970s. The crew had fixed up a block of E. 12th St., as I recall, to look like ca. 1900. It was marvelous to see, only a few things had to be changed or covered up. And another time, early 1980s, entirely by accident, I stumbled onto a street in Williamsburg, just south of the bridge, that was being used to film Once Upon a Time in America. It was full of Hebrew signs and such — again, fascinating.
Spectacular
Just moved to Ludlow Street…hope to see them filming again.
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