Stargazing — Sloatsburg’s quietly become a busy film production hub

Posted on 07 April 2016 by Editor

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The Sloatsburg Community Fields has recently become an active production hub for local movie and other entertainment shoots.

Stretching like a small carnival street at the back of the Sloatsburg Community Fields is a series of non-descript trailers. SUVs and and vehicles come and go. Sloatsburg has become a regular production outpost for filming in Western Ramapo and Rockland County.

The historical Cannon-Keyes farm house out on Johnsontown Road has become a go-to rustic location.

Lately, NBC’s popular crime thriller the Blindspot has been shooting episodes for season two. The show stars Jaimie Alexander and Sullivan Stapleton.

Other stars have been out and about, including Emma Thompson and Ben Stiller playing barkeeps at Rhodes North Tavern. 

The 2005 Jim Jarmusch film Broken Flowers, starring Bill Murray, sort of kicked off the movie production trend, with filming in the Flats. Since then Sloatsburg and Suffern have seen a number of productions, from Believe to plenty of Blindspot and Noah Braumbach’s most recent film, tentatively named Yeh Din Ka Kissa (and ending up as the Meyerowitz Stories), and featuring Thompson, Stiller, Adam Sandler, and Dustin Hoffman. Note the yellow YDKK signs.

Sandler recently ordered a handful of round roll roast beef sandwiches Stone Meadow Inn deli.

The Community Fields production fund will help pay for the new tennis court repaving which was recently approved by the Village Board. The low-key film production business also works well with Sloatsburg’s burgeoning rustic, park-friendly reputation.

 

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