By Michael Shain
Queens, the home of superheroes?
Any Marvel fan can tell you that Spider-Man/Peter Parker lives on Ingram Street in Forest Hills. Now it turns out that Daredevil/Matthew Murdock is a Bayside guy.
This week the crew of “Daredevil”—a Netflix TV series starring British actor Charlie Cox as the lawyer who doubles as a costumed crime fighter—descended on a house at 213th Street and 37th Avenue to film.
All the filming was done inside the white colonial-style home whose windows and doors were covered with heavy-duty, black-out material to keep the light and sound of the street out as well as the prying eyes of neighbors. But the production dragged on so late, it is unlikely anyone on the block was still awake when the cast and crew finally packed up and went home in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.
The production is part of a major deal between Disney, which owns the Marvel franchise, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The state has given the Hollywood producer an unspecified tax break in exchange for filming 60 hours of new shows in New York, guaranteeing at least 400 full-time jobs, according to the governor’s office. The deal was signed last year.
