Last looks at today's 'Law & Order' shoot

Photos by Derek Berg 

As we've been mentioning (here and here and here), "Law & Order" is back with new episodes after a 10-plus year absence from NBC (obvi reruns play every few minutes on cable). 

Anyway! Today's filming action along Seventh Street between Avenue A and Avenue B saw the return of Anthony Anderson's Det. Bernard and newcomer Jeffrey Donovan as Det. Frank Cosgrove ...

The two were seen checking out a crime scene in a van...

"Law & Order" returns with its first episode on Feb. 24.

'Law & Order' creates a new tent city for Tompkins Square Park

Photos by Steven 

As previously mentioned, crews for "Law & Order" will be filming along Avenue A and in and around Tompkins Square Park tomorrow. 

Ahead of that, a handful of tents were erected along the Park's Seventh Street entrance between Avenue A and Avenue B ...

The long-running show seems to be keeping with the "ripped from the headlines" approach to the plot... late last summer, a dozen makeshift tent encampments arrived in this same general vicinity... a Department of Homeless Services-led entourage, featuring the Department of Sanitation, the Parks Enforcement Patrol and the NYPD, conducted a "clean-up" in and along Tompkins Square Park in early November. 

Several unhoused people are still sleeping in tents in portions of the Park... not too far away from where the filming will take place... 

And this isn't the first time a film crew has recreated a tent city in Tompkins.

While we're 'Younger': Filming in Tompkins Square Park today

You may have seen the film crew in Tompkins Square Park today...

They were filming a scene for "Younger," the well-reviewed (99% on Rotten Tomatoes!) TV series from Darren Star ... the show's up to season 7, set to debut in early 2021. A PA told Steven this was for an episode to air in the spring. (And no word of any Hilary Duff sightings!)

A reader said that cast-and crew had a COVID-19 testing location inside the former St. Brigid School on Avenue B.

Thanks to Derek Berg for the photos ... and H/T Steven...