me on April 08, 2009, at 04:31PM – #2

In other news, Premier & Spring Tower residents will once again get absolutely no compensation for all the B.S. they will endure from the filming in their backyard thanks to some tricky wording in their lease. Izek Shomof, way to take care of your tenants.

Bert Green on April 09, 2009, at 01:11AM – #3

I am always amazed that film companies think it is somehow appropriate to do such things in between 2 residential buildings. What the hell are they smoking? Can't they find a city street somewhere where there are no residents?

Greg Kr on April 09, 2009, at 01:18AM – #4

Awesome!

rob on April 09, 2009, at 12:44PM – #6

God Bless film/TV that stay in LA! Please don't support Canada no matter what people in LA say we NEED the Money!!!!

Oscar on April 09, 2009, at 02:26PM – #7

Bert; they can but they won't, why would they do so when they own the streets(thanks! filmLA)? There is nothing you can do to stop them so F' you and all the other residents in downtown.

Judith on April 10, 2009, at 10:17PM – #8

I called the location manager to just discuss the filming they would be doing and was told "I was lucky that they would be filming the Mac truck during the day." Oh yeah - hurray - so very lucky!

Benjamin Pezzillo on April 11, 2009, at 11:36AM – #9

All I will say is that the need for this extensive stunt to be done on location better appear on screen in the final product.

Otherwise, this is an egofest that could be more safely conducted on a backlot and without the resulting impact to this residential block from such close proximity to other productions -- every single parking space on our block has been film-production posted for over a week now and there are five residential buildings on this block!

Let's hope this goes off without anyone getting hurt by the stunt work itself or the danger it poses to the residential buildings surrounding it.

better than a trap on April 11, 2009, at 12:45PM – #10

As the Bartlett Building has been undergoing a rat infestation, maybe the explosion will help clear the air. It appears that B Bldg geniuses put rat poison throughout the building and loads of rats died in the walls. The stench has been outrageous for months.

Ankur on April 13, 2009, at 12:27PM – #11

Maybe the smell @ barlett is from cliftons?

Yeah, I waited for a friend in the lobby @ barlett, and man it was TERRIBLE!

Lady Ducayne on April 14, 2009, at 09:31PM – #12

I was actually able to get a quick peek inside after stopping by Spring for Coffee.

Oscar on April 15, 2009, at 12:00PM – #13

Yep, the Bartlett stinks big time!, I think it's hopefully would go away with time...

But anyway back to the original topic, that whole thing was incredibly cool, they crashed an entire truck into the "fake" facade, really cool indeed.

However, yes, they did once more block traffic, DURING WEEKDAY BUSINESS HOURS! how irresponsible, they blocked 3 lanes of traffic on Spring a very important artery in our grid.

And yes, they could have shot that in the toy district or any of the new residential areas south of Alameda between 1st and 7th. were there isn't as much traffic (either pedestrian or vehicular) and it's not within the gridlock zone.

F' you very much CSI new york's location manager!

PS: But yeah the visuals were cool...

you on May 14, 2009, at 08:13PM – #14

This was for the season finale!

Greg Kr on May 15, 2009, at 10:21AM – #15

move back to kansas people. videos of set building to destruction... click on my name.