Top photo by Stacie Joy
A production crew set up a prop newsstand this afternoon on the corner of Seventh Street and Avenue A — one of the busier corridors in the East Village, at the entrance to Tompkins Square Park.
The setup drew plenty of attention from passersby, given the steady foot traffic through the intersection.
Per a crew member: "It's a prop — the newsstand isn't real [Editor's note: Duh] and will be taken down the minute this shoot ends … soon. It's a commercial shoot for Uggs. You know, Uggs? You can see the models wearing them."
Less clear: the reaction to people doing what people do on a crowded corner on a nice spring day — stopping to look and take photos.
When we snapped a few pictures, someone from the production scolded: "Miss! You can't take pictures! Put down your camera! You are not allowed to photograph this."
Another crew member offered to "call the cops to take her camera."
For a temporary set planted in plain view at a high-traffic intersection, the no-photos stance seemed… ambitious.
