Where NYC actually films

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Where NYC actually films

We pulled 6,000 official NYC film & TV shooting permits from 2025–2026 and mapped where the cameras really go. Here's what the city's own data says.

6,000

permits analyzed

52%

shot in Manhattan

2,246

were television

194×

busiest single street

The borough split

Manhattan

3,118

Brooklyn

1,964

Queens

717

Bronx

122

Staten Island

79

What's shooting

Television

2,246

Theater

1,180

Film

950

Commercial

775

Still Photography

387

Web

328

The 12 most-filmed streets in NYC

1. West 48th Street 194 shoots 2. East 11th Street 174 shoots 3. Amsterdam Avenue 152 shoots 4. Dekalb Avenue (Brooklyn) 141 shoots 5. Frost Street (Brooklyn) 113 shoots 6. Monitor Street (Brooklyn) 105 shoots 7. West 55th Street 103 shoots 8. 30th Street 94 shoots 9. Starr Avenue (Queens) 89 shoots 10. Kingsland Avenue (Brooklyn) 86 shoots 11. West 33rd Street 84 shoots 12. Calyer Street (Brooklyn) 80 shoots

Greenpoint and Williamsburg (Frost, Monitor, Kingsland, Calyer, Dekalb) quietly rival Midtown — the Brooklyn side is a production hub hiding in plain sight.

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Source: NYC Open Data "Film Permits", 6,000 permits with a start date on/after 2025-01-01, analyzed by CivicDataForge's NYC Film & TV Production Permits tool. Street counts group permits by the primary held street.