Midwood

Midwood is a residential neighborhood in south central Brooklyn. Midwood has a history of television and film production with several notable TV shows produced locally. Vitagraph Studios, once the largest producer of motion pictures in the United States was later sold to Warner Brothers in 1925 and later became an NBC studio. The facility housed two sound stages, as well as a pool where NBC produced its famous “The Esther Williams Aqua Spectacle.” The tradition continues somewhat with the local Edward R. Murrow High School. It is a school of the arts and is recognized as having an outstanding theater program and a highly competitive chess team.