Steiner Studios

Steiner Studios is a film studio at Brooklyn Navy Yard in Brooklyn, New York City. It is the largest film and television production studio complex in the United States outside Hollywood. Steiner Studios, spread across 50 acre, contains 30 soundstages as well as additional support space.

Steiner Studios was founded in 1999, and the first soundstages at the site opened in November 2004. In 2012, Steiner Studios reached an agreement with the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation to convert its 20-acre Naval Annex Historic Campus into a media and technology hub; the expansion is projected to be completed in the mid-2020s. In 2020, Steiner Studios announced a new $550 million, 900,000 square-foot project in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

Most recently, Inventing Anna, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, West Side Story, Tick, Tick...Boom!, and And Just Like That… have been filmed at Steiner Studios.

Description
Steiner Studios is home to thirty soundstages, totaling 780000 sqft and making it New York’s largest production facility. There is also an additional 224000 sqft of support space, which includes offices, dressing rooms, hair and make-up rooms, wardrobe rooms, mill shops, a spray booth, and prop storage. Office and support spaces have access to satellite uplinks and a high-speed data backbone.

Soundstages are equipped with full grids from 26 to 45 feet, are column-free, sound-insulated, and offer loading and staging areas. Built to accommodate film, high-definition television (HDTV) and digital camera productions, each stage is wired with a minimum of 4,800 amps of power and 50 to 200 tons of cooling. Stages are accessed via 13 ft to 20 ft elephant doors.

Each stage is attached to production and support space, including make-up and dressing rooms, green rooms, storage areas, conference rooms, and offices. In addition to the enclosed building areas, there are assembly and secondary areas for "lay-down" of materials and equipment used in large-scale film projects. The facility features a 100-seat screening room and a full commissary, on-site parking, 24/7 security and lighting and grip equipment services.

History
In 2003, Douglas C. Steiner began development of what later became New York City's largest television and movie production facility, on 20 acre of the Navy Yard. Steiner Studios opened in November 2004. The site initially included a 280,000 ft2 studio spread across five stages.

An expansion of the facility through renovation of a seven-story building in the Navy Yard, was announced by chairman Douglas Steiner, on February 15, 2007. The studio was the location of the 17th annual Gotham Awards held on November 27, 2007.

In March 2012, Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled five new sound stages (a total of 30500 sqft) at Steiner Studios. The new sound stages all feature two or three wall cycloramas.

Brooklyn College opened the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema on Steiner Studios' production lot for the fall 2013 semester. It is the first public graduate school of film in New York and is thought to be the only film school in the country located on a working film lot. In November 2013, Carnegie Mellon University announced the creation of the Integrative Media Program at Steiner Studios.

Expansions
In 2012, Steiner Studios proposed building a media campus at the former site of Brooklyn Naval Hospital. located just east of the existing Steiner Studios lot. Steiner Studios planned to restore the hospital buildings starting in 2017, and restoration was expected to take nearly a decade.

The extant buildings at the hospital included the main building, surgeon's house, quarters 4 through 7, bachelors' and nurses' quarters, carriage houses and stables, the medical supply depot, and the morgue/lumber shed. Steiner proposed to convert these structures into production, post-production, and production support space. The hospital had been listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 2014. Steiner Studios' plan calls for the restoration of 15 NRHP-listed buildings at the Brooklyn Naval Hospital campus, but would also demolish some of the NRHP-contributing artifacts to make way for the new facility, Structures with a total floor area of 2,700 ft2 would be demolished and replaced with landscaped lawn space.

Sunset Park expansion
In 2020, Steiner Studios signed a deal to build a new $550 million studio complex at the city-owned portion of Bush Terminal in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, where it would erect a studio of 900000 ft2 and eight soundstages.

Lobbying
Steiner Studios benefits from New York's movie production incentive program. Douglas Steiner donated $40,000 to incumbent New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s 2022 campaign. The company spends $10,000 a month on lobbyists.

Television
30 Rock

The Affair

And Just Like That...

Blindspot

Bored to Death

Boardwalk Empire

The Carrie Diaries

City on a Hill

Clash of the Choirs

Cupid

Damages

Deception

The Deuce

Dickinson

Donny!

Flesh and Bone

Flight of the Conchords

The Following

Girls

God Friended Me

Gossip Girl

Gotham

Happyish

Hip Hop Squares

Hunters

The Interestings

In Treatment

Inventing Anna

Little Voice

Made in Jersey

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Mildred Pierce

A Muppet Christmas: Letters to Santa

Pan Am

Pose

Power

Power Book II: Ghost

Red Oaks

Sweetbitter

The Unusuals

Vinyl

The Who Was? Show