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COMMERCIAL FILMING AND MOVIE SHOOTS AT BARNARD COLLEGE
With its distinguished architecture, renewed public spaces and elegant and classic interiors, Barnard College in New York City presents an ideal location for a variety of film shoots and commercial photography. Barnard’s beautiful and historic campus, recognized as a leafy oasis on upper Broadway in Manhattan, has been used as a location for many feature and independent films, television shows and commercial and still photography shoots. Woody Allen chose the gated entrance to Barnard on Broadway at West 117th Street for his feature film Husbands and Wives; ABC’s Peter Jennings used the graceful Sulzberger Parlor as a setting for a program on St. Paul; ABC filmed a special program on the 1970s on campus; and NBC’s Law and Order has filmed many scenes at Barnard. Michael Douglas and Mary Tyler Moore are just two of the actors who have been filmed at Barnard. In addition, Barnard has been the setting for fashion, advertising and other commercial shoots.
The campus has large, lush greenspace, providing unique exterior film shoot locations, often difficult to find in New York City, and classic and elegant interior spaces, including several that are quite special: the Arthur Ross Greenhouse on the roof of Milbank Hall; a period-tiled swimming pool; the elegant Brooks Living Room with its columns and floor-to-ceiling windows and the Ella Weed Room with a Tiffany-design glass mosaic fireplace are some of these. The campus, which dates to the turn of the 20th century, has a dignified and historic urban feel within a parklike setting.
Locations
Set on the historic Upper West Side of Manhattan between West 116th and 120th Streets along Broadway and across from Columbia University, Barnard’s 4 1/2 acre campus offers buildings in the Beaux Arts style with classic architectural features. These include colonnades, intricate iron gates, brick courtyards, arched porticoes, and beautiful landscapes, including Lehman Lawn, with its flowering trees and shrubs and intimate perennial gardens accented by traditional benches and Paris park tables and chairs.
Interior locations include classic features, such as stained glass and unusual metalwork. Some of the most popular interiors are Sulzberger Parlor, with
burnished wood trim, bookcases, a fireplace and elegant appointments; Brooks Living Room, an elegant and airy reception room with a soaring ceiling, columns and beautiful floor-to-ceiling windows; the Julius Held Auditorium, a distinctive lecture hall, and the Vagelos Alumnae Center, a century-old small brick building with beautiful living and dining room spaces. Other unique spaces include the Spanish Room, which has a Latin decorative theme, and Milbank courtyard, with parterres and a colonnade at Milbank Hall, Barnard’s turn of the 20th century classroom and administration building. Beyond these unique locations, traditional “college” settings are also available for filming, such as the Ethel and Samuel LeFrak Gymnasium, traditional classrooms and lecture halls, residence hall lounges, dance studios, science laboratories, and a student center.
Who To Contact
The Office of Public Affairs will help with your filming needs. Please call 212-854-2037 to inquire about locations and permits, and to set up a scouting tour to view interior and exterior locations. For tours
and contract arrangements, please contact Petra Tuomi, Associate Director for Public Affairs, directly at 212-854-7907.
All film shoots must be approved by the Office of Public Affairs. A contract for filming on campus is required for a film or photography project.
Permits
Permits for filming may be obtained from the Office of Public Affairs,
based on the availability of locations. The preferred times for film shoots
are after graduation, during the summer months starting in late May until late August, and during winter break from late December to mid-January. Spring break in March is also a good time for filming. During the academic year, film shoots are conducted based on the availability of space.
Fees
Fees for still photography shoots are $450 an hour outdoors and $600 indoors. For longer shoots, a special flat fee may be established on a case-by-case basis. For television and movie filming, the hourly rate is generally $650 outdoors and $850 indoors. Fees may vary, depending on special requirements and the variety of locations needed.
Insurance
Companies or individuals filming on campus are required to have insurance coverage as part of the contract arrangements.
Parking
Parking is not provided for filming on campus. Street parking is available with proper city permits and private commercial garages are located nearby. Also, some special arrangements may be made with Barnard Security to provide limited reserved spaces along Broadway and Claremont Avenue or 120th St.
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Barnard is a small, selective independent liberal arts college that has been a distinguished leader in higher education for women for over 100 years. Founded in 1889, the College was the first in New York City, and one of the few in the nation at the time, where women could receive the same rigorous liberal arts education available to men. Today, Barnard is a residential college with 2,000 students. Noted alumnae include authors Mary Gordon, Zora Neale Hurston, Anna Quindlen and Jhumpa Lahiri, choreographer Twyla Tharp and pioneers like anthropologist Margaret Mead and Judith Kaye, the first female Chief Judge of the State of New York. Since 1994, Barnard has been led by President Judith Shapiro, a noted cultural anthropologist.
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