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It all started the week before when I found this notice on my car in the parking lot of the church next door to my building, where I\u2019ve parked since a couple of pastors ago:<\/span><\/p>\n They\u2019re a good neighbor and we\u2019ve helped each other out many times.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s not unusual for them to put out these notices occasionally because many people (the “unauthorized parkers”) from other nearby buildings just PARK<\/em> there as if it was a free municipal parking lot.<\/span><\/p>\n But it IS unusual for them to close the lot for 3 days in a row.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n One of the other tenants in my building is a church elder there and a friend of mine, so I asked her what she knew, since she also parks there.<\/span><\/p>\n She said there was going to be something going on that involved a TV or movie crew. We both park near the lot\u2019s entrance\/exit and she was told to park near the other end of the lot because the production crew needed the spaces near the entrance\/exit, so I followed her lead and parked next to her at the other end:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Then all these yellow signs started popping up on all of the surrounding streets:<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cPOW\u201d? What the hell is THAT? I guess the crew knew. And then there were numerous \u201cCREW PARKING\u201d signs and guess where they led to?<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n This was found near the church lot entrance on Ward St. Pointing upward? Were there multiple levels to park on? (not on this<\/em> block):<\/span><\/p>\n But it directed the crew to the lot and informed them that SIXTY parking spots were available in that lot.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Just before the lot entrance, this sign indicated that an immediate right turn would probably get you one of those 60 spots:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n You also knew that this was serious business when you saw that the police were also involved – especially on Monday, the 8th\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026from MIDNIGHT until 10pm:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n These signs were on the side street that separates the church and my building (Ward St) and were also found on every surrounding street (and for good reason, as you\u2019ll see later). <\/span><\/p>\n This one\u2019s by the back of my building:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The sun partially blocks out the fact that there were 35 additional parking spots in the municipal parking lot behind my building (and across the street from the church lot entrance), so there will be around 100 crew members descending upon us on Monday:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Another POW parking directional sign thrown in for good measure\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n (“POW” – as it turns out – is short for “POWER”, as in \u201cPower:Origins\u201d – the name of the Starz series that’s being partially-filmed today.)<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n This last sign was at the corner where Ward St ends at Union St, where both the next-door church (436) and I (430) have addresses:<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cSET\u201d is pointing toward Anderson St, where I\u2019m guessing all the action will take place on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n On Sunday, this car with a constantly-blinking orange light at the top of its windshield was parked illegally – well, normally<\/em> illegally – by a yellow curb ALL afternoon, ALL evening and ALL night on Ward St, directly across from the church\u2019s parking lot entrance:<\/span><\/p>\n I got up early on Monday to find the car on the other side of the street and later, it sat all day in the first space in the church lot, so I\u2019m guessing that the driver spent the night directing dozens of huge trucks to occupy EVERY SINGLE SPACE on EVERY SINGLE SURROUNDING STREET.<\/span><\/p>\n Also now on Ward St was this big truck that said \u201cANGEL AERIAL\u201d on its side. Hmmmm\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..something interesting might be happening later:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n So I went out at 8:30am to try to document everything I saw that was out of the ordinary.<\/span><\/p>\n Straight out of my front door is Conklin Place, which was now end-to-end huge trucks. This is what it looks like on a regular day – all cars:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here are two partial views of that street early on the morning of December 8, with my building behind the second one:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here are two PANOramic shots (click all PANOs twice to fully enlarge and then scroll side-to-side, if necessary) of the biggest trucks ever to park on Conklin Place:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Crew needs food, right?<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I guess movie vehicles also need their own kind of food:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n One more Conklin Place vehicle:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And now one very short walk over to blocked-off Anderson St – THE SET!<\/span><\/p>\n Keep that first car on the left in mind\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.wait\u2019ll you see what IT gets to eat!<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n So let\u2019s take a stroll down Anderson St and see what\u2019s needed to make this production happen (just don\u2019t ask me what all these things are).<\/span><\/p>\n This is another PANO shot. The next picture shows everything that\u2019s been unloaded on the far right side of the PANO:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ever see a 3-door tractor-trailer? Interesting stuff in the back: a snow shovel, a basketball and a red plastic gas can (keep that gas can in mind):<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And here is that very colorful 3-door tractor-trailer that came all the way from Maine. You can\u2019t see the back door, but you CAN see the red plastic gas can:<\/span> <\/p>\n If you think THAT was colorful, you\u2019ll flip over the other side of the truck in this PANO:<\/span> <\/p>\n A little less-colorful PANO:<\/span> <\/p>\n Four more pix of stuff:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n This last pic of \u201cstuff\u201d has something else going for it. I don\u2019t recall the name of that corner eatery at 75 Anderson, but it wasn\u2019t \u201cCosimo\u2019s\u201d:<\/span><\/p>\n So I asked Google……….the reply:<\/span><\/p>\n I DO know that they served Spanish food and that film-crew’s sign mentions only Italian food and looks WAY too new.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n So I went back there a week later and guess what?<\/span><\/p>\n All writing on the sign is gone, the rim of it is now painted blue and all the Italian food has been transformed back to Spanish. Note that the Italian version has small signs and curtains covering the already-there Spanish signs.<\/span><\/p>\n Back to the Italian version: remember, we\u2019ve still got that car out front to deal with later.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n One thing I need to mention is that a crew member told me that this whole episode takes place in an Italian neighborhood in Queens, NY (hence, “Cosimo’s” and the New York license plates on the car parked in front of the eatery). As far as I know, NOTHING is portrayed as being in Hackensack.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n As I start to head back home, the first cross street is a one-block segment of Pangborn Place. This is where all the westbound traffic on Anderson St has been diverted, including buses – something I\u2019ve never seen before……..ESPECIALLY with film crew vehicles parked there:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I\u2019m now in one-block-long Anderson Park, which is now surrounded by big vehicles on Anderson St and the other sides of vehicles we already saw on Conklin Place:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n This is a closeup of a PANO on Conklin Place. Look what it says on the door:<\/span><\/p>\n I knew I saw another truck that mentioned Maywood – which borders Hackensack – but the \u201cPower Origins Productions, INC\u201d kind of blew my mind because that\u2019s the business name of the Santa Monica, CA company that\u2019s behind this whole shebang and \u201cPower:Origins\u201d is the name of the new Starz prequel series that\u2019s partially being filmed in Hackensack\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.and their trucking company is right-next-door in tiny Maywood? Very cool.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Continuing through Anderson Park, here\u2019s something new\u2026\u2026\u2026I thought maybe it was part of the movie set, but a crew member said it wasn\u2019t:<\/span><\/p>\n Must be from Hackensack (as two other new park items we\u2019ll see later must also be).<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Back to the Ward St trucks\u2026\u2026\u2026they\u2019re now starting to empty their loads:<\/span><\/p>\n That lead truck is also from the Maywood \u201cPower:Origins\u201d company.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n And directly across Ward St from that truck is the spotlight that will illuminate a Tiffany stained-glass window – from the outside – to create a brilliantly-bright window on the inside (as will the 4 spotlights on the other side of the church). <\/span><\/p>\n So why is this one aimed at the upper floors of my building on the other side of Ward St? Maybe it has a solar-powered battery? It IS facing the sun.<\/span><\/p>\n As I understand it, the only church filming is inside<\/em> the church, which seems strange to those of us not in the know, given how brilliantly-lit the exterior will be.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here’s a PANO of the front of the church that shows some of those other 4 spotlights to the right of (and below) the flag:<\/span><\/p>\n And why are those two cars closest to me (the PSE&G vehicle and the white one behind it) looking so small? Because their motion is from right to left and my PANO panning motion is moving from left to right, which compresses them (stationary vehicles are unaffected).<\/span><\/p>\n (Can you guess what would happen if I was panning from right to left? Hint: I have pictures of buses that are two blocks long.)<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Back home, the Angel Aerial truck has dumped its load (discounting the two ladders, I don\u2019t see any aerial components\u2026\u2026\u2026..but what do I know?):<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Back out for another AM stroll, I start with the church, showing spotlights on each side:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Closeup of the soon-to-be-very<\/em>-tall street spotlight:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Side view of that spotlight and a few others:<\/span><\/p>\n That street spotlight will rise to great heights and do something I\u2019ve never seen in my 37 years of living next door to that church.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Back in Anderson Park, we see the flip sides of two large Conklin Place trucks that we saw earlier (portable dressing rooms?):<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I\u2019m sorry, but this is the least-festive-looking Christmas decoration I\u2019ve ever seen. It’s so raggedy:<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s one of the two same new park items that I think the city provided. We\u2019ll see it again later when it’s lit up (don\u2019t hold your breath).<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I didn\u2019t see any of this stuff along Anderson St on my earlier stroll (that’s because you were on parallel Conklin Place, dumbass):<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Remember this statement? \u201cKeep that first car on the left in mind\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.wait\u2019ll you see what IT gets to eat!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Well, here it is!<\/span><\/p>\n WTF?<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Later that evening, I mentioned seeing this to a crew member working with that very tall spotlight in front of the church. I\u2019ve forgotten half of what he said, but it involved some guy (the car owner?) and the \u201cItalian\u201d eatery we saw earlier. There was nasty arguing on both sides, but I\u2019m pretty sure he said it ended with the car owner beating someone with a baseball bat. Hey – wouldn\u2019t you do the same to someone trying to turn your car into a vegetarian? (Is there meat in that mess? I can\u2019t tell.)<\/span><\/p>\n I don\u2019t know if the two people shown are in the movie or just passersby, but it does<\/em> look like they might be arguing, so\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n Well, was all that worth the wait?<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Another shot of my favorite 3-door truck:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n More sidewalk stuff (or is it more of the same?):<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n There were two shots worth taking on the side-street (Park St):<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1-Church-lot-notice.jpg\")
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<\/a>See that partial red and yellow box right above this sentence? I just noticed that it says “TOE WARMERS”.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/53-iPhone_1152-12-8-25-WM.jpg\")
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