The entrance of Steiner Studios in Brooklyn.
Photographer: Lanna Apisukh/BloombergNYC's Movie Comeback Gets Boost From a $1 Billion Robert De Niro Studio
The Manhattan-born actor is among those who are leading a drive to ensure the city regains its status in the Hollywood pantheon.
Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver, Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II, and Jimmy ‘The Gent’ Conway in Goodfellas: They weren’t just indelible Robert De Niro characters, but also New Yorkers who elevated the city into a character all its own in the movies they inhabited.
But in the years since De Niro roamed the Big Apple’s streets in those roles, New York’s once distinctive mark on celluloid has faded. Now, the Manhattan-born actor and producer is working to ensure the city regains its status in the Hollywood pantheon.