Astoria is ready for its close-up, thanks to a partnership between Kaufman Astoria Studios, Silverstein, and BedRock to expand the Kaufman Arts District and grow the neighborhood’s culture hub into a center of business, cultural, educational, ... Read More

Kaufman Astoria Studios (KAS), located at 34-12 36th St., has become one of Hollywood’s go-to destinations for some of the largest names in the film and television industry. Today, KAS offers industry professionals over 500,000 ... Read More

“We will be following all safety and health protocols for all those entering the campus,” Kaufman Astoria Studios President and CEO Hal Rosenbluth said. “All of our vendors and contractors will have to pass through ... Read More

New York's film studios are betting big on a quick rebound for the industry when production returns from its pandemic-induced hiatus. Expansion plans from Kaufman Astoria Studios and Steiner Studios in Brooklyn are set to continue ... Read More

New York was the first center of American movie-making. When Thomas Edison and other inventors developed this new technology at the end of the 19th century, New York City was already the American cultural and ... Read More

New York (CNN Business) -On a soundstage near the Brooklyn waterfront, dozens of production staff are gathered around four actors as they perform a scene about the hunt for a missing ring. Camera people, sound ... Read More

The holiday season in Astoria was launched with the Fifth Annual Holiday Tree Lighting ceremony on Friday, December 6 at the front gates of Kaufman Astoria Studios. This year the tree is once again decorated ... Read More

For decades the open secret about films and TV shows set in the Big Apple was that they were not actually shot here. Jerry Seinfeld's Upper West Side apartment was on a Los Angeles soundstage. NYPD ... Read More

As Hal Rosenbluth tells it, it was the 59th Street Bridge that was the problem. “It was the days of Woody Allen, Alan Pakula, and Sidney Lumet, because they were the New Yorkers that were ... Read More

What do “Animal Crackers,” “The Wiz,” “Sesame Street” and “Orange Is the New Black” have in common? They were all made at Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens. The studio set behind a Hollywood-like gate on ... Read More