East Finish Studios has formally opened the doorways on its Sunnyside Campus in Queens, the newest movie and tv manufacturing studio to debut in New York Metropolis.
Jonathon Yormak, founding associate reduce the ribbon in the present day with NYC movie commissioner Pat Swinney Kaufman, Yoni Bokser, head of of the New York State Governor’s Workplace of Movement Image & Tv Improvement and different officers. New York has seen an uptick in new studio developments coinciding with the state passing sweeter manufacturing incentives in its newest funds earlier this yr.
The $260 million, 350,000-square foot challenge, town hopes, will additional strengthen New York’s place as a hub for movie and tv manufacturing towards rival states and abroad hubs. It broke floor on the challenge in November of 2023.
The campus options 4 full-service sound phases spanning 91,000 sq. toes. The three major phases vary from 19,000 to 29,000 sq. toes and every has 37’ clear heights.
The challenge additionally homes a 15,000 sq. foot rooftop flex-stage that includes 26’ clear heights and outside terraces with sweeping views of the Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan skylines.
The phases are supported by 125,000 sq. toes of manufacturing, workplace, and mill areas, 225 below-grade parking areas, and eight enclosed loading bays at grade servicing full dimension vans. Like all East Finish Studios’ tasks, the Sunnyside facility will likely be totally built-in with XR/VR infrastructure, together with the potential to shoot on a digital stage, and high-speed fiber connectivity with scalable production-level web.
It will likely be managed by CEO Craig Chapman with Michael Manas serving as VP & Basic Supervisor of Operations.
The Sunnyside Campus — positioned on a full metropolis block between Queens Boulevard and the Lengthy Island Expressway and a brief stroll to the 7-train and Lengthy Island Railroad — is the most recent studio to open inside East Finish’s portfolio after LA’s East Finish Studio’s Glendale. East Finish’s Mission Campus, additionally in LA, is about to open in January.
“New York Metropolis’s manufacturing trade is exhibiting promising progress and there stays a transparent want for world-class, totally built-in stage campuses. With the Sunnyside Campus, we’re introducing a stage of workflow effectivity and excellence that’s all the time a precedence for producers and places scouts on this nice metropolis,” stated Yormak. “We’re proud to contribute to New York’s increasing position within the international manufacturing panorama and grateful to mark this milestone alongside our valued companions on the New York Metropolis Financial Improvement Company, the NYCIDA, and the Mayor’s Workplace of Media and Leisure.”
“We’re thrilled with the addition of East Finish Studios to NYC’s movie & tv manufacturing infrastructure, which guarantees to play a task in offering jobs to NYC primarily based crew members and supporting small companies in Sunnyside Queens,” stated Swinney Kaufman. “Mixed with latest extensions to the state movie tax credit score, will increase to our native crew base by means of ‘Made in NY’ coaching applications, and a ‘Metropolis of Sure’ angle when it comes to filming, the long run is vivid for our movie and TV manufacturing trade.”
Robert De Niro’s Wildflower Studios opened earlier this yr in Astoria. Borden Studios just lately opened in Lengthy Island Metropolis. Steiner Studios and the New York Metropolis Financial Improvement Company broke floor on a outpost in Sundown Park, Brooklyn, and development is underway on Sundown Pier 94 on the far West Facet of midtown Manhattan. New entrants will be a part of historic Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, Silvercup Studio and its growth, Silvercup Studios East, in Lengthy Island Metropolis, and Broadway Phases in Brooklyn.
