NYC Production Boom Sees Permits And Spending Surge, Sound Stages Max Out: “We Are Bursting At The Seams”

New York City Film Commissioner Rafael Espinal, seated in February by Mayor Zohran Mamdani, may be the first in the job to see New York production spend outstrip California. A sweetened New York State tax incentive, one of the best in the nation, has converged with faster permitting and smoother…