Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Amex shoot takes over Avenue A skid row for the afternoon



A crew was on Avenue A at East Seventh Street today filming some sort of commercial involving, well – all this...



... along the site that usually looks like this of late...





Perhaps becoming the edgy go-to spot now for shoots.

Photos today by Bobby Williams.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

How did they get those homeless guys to move? I hope they put them up in a hotel for a few days.

Anonymous said...

They didn't move; Bandana Man was still doing his usual yelling and pissing on the sidewalk.

nygrump said...

Why would they have any obligation to the bums?

Gojira said...

Not sure who else remembers this, but in 1984 Macy's ran a series of fall fashion ads in the Times called "Hanging on Avenue A", where clean-cut young men and women in frat- and sorority-type clothes posed in/on cars and in front of places by 7th and A like Leshko's, Ray's and Odessa (the original one). It was ludicrous to the extreme, but I see not much has changed in that respect in the ensuing 29 years.