Parking Restrictions Near Mt. St. Ursula Tomorrow Due to Movie Filming

CB 7 just sent over the below info, and we wanted to share it with readers who live near Mt. St. Ursula:

Community Notification: Bedford Park residents

On Friday March 12, 2010, the independent film “Mr. Tambourine Man” is scheduled to film interior and exterior scenes at Mt. St. Ursula School at 330 Bedford Park Blvd. between Perry and Marion Avenues.

APPROXIMATE TIME: 10am-2am

PLEASE NOTE THAT PARKING ACCESS WILL BE RESTRICTED AT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS*

-198^th Street between Briggs & Marion Avenues

-199^th Street between Bainbridge & Briggs Avenues

-Bainbridge Ave. between 198^th Street & Bedford Park Blvd.

*Note that parking in the immediate vicinity may also be effected.

If you have any questions, you can contact the Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting Locations Department at 212-760-1300

Bowery Boogie had the following brief description of the film: "Mr. Tambourine Man is the film adaptation of an Oliver Sacks (author of Awakenings) case study called The Last Hippie, and reportedly stars Julia Ormond, Lou Taylor Pucci, and J.K. Simmons. It’s based on a true story about a man named Gabriel who lost the ability to form short-term memories after the onset of a brain tumor. Music, specifically that of Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead, become the only means for him to communicate with others."

~ErLu

Amalgamated Parking Fury

A City Room article, Bronx Asks, Is There No Parking on Mars? by David Gonzalez and Nate Schweber chronicles the famed Alamgamated Houses co-op community's fight against the imposition of a TV series shoot that would have taken away 400 parking spots.

The series in question is an American remake of a British hit, Life on Mars (the Office coattails anyone?). Only this series doesn't seem to be funny, or even plausible. I don't even have a clue what this show is about, but thankfully Messrs. Gonzalez and Schweber decided to ask. It turns out "[t]he drama is about a homicide detective who finds himself transported back to the 1970s after a car accident." [City Room]

Hmmmm... Anyone think this one's gonna translate? Time travel, detectives, and apparently classic old-school cars. The shoot required some 70s type cars to come and fill up all those lost spaces to make the time travel aspect of the series really pop. Unless this series adds Tracy Morgan as the detective's side-kick, I ain't watchin'.

Lucky the old lefty rabble-rousing complex rallied the troops and procured some parking on desolate Goulden Avenue with a shuttle bus hustling remote parkers to and from their buildings.

Glad these residents weren't completely put out.
At least not for this series.

Photo of parking sign by Rob Bennett for New York Times, cheesy promo shot of Life on Mars courtesy of http://www.cultfiction.com.au

~ErLu