Photo: A.P.

1999: “The Sopranos”
Filmed in Long Island City

In 1999, the cable television station HBO began filming its new drama, “The Sopranos,” at Silvercup Studios in Long Island City. The show, which stars James Gandolfini, Lorraine Bracco, and Edie Falco, became the first cable television series to win the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series. Brothers Stuart and Alan Suna purchased the former Silvercup Bakery in 1980, opening Silvercup Studios in 1983. The former flour silo room housed the first studio. It soon became the northeast’s largest independent, full-service film and television production facility. Silvercup Studios currently has 17 shooting spaces on its Main Lot at 42-22 22nd Street and five more on its East Lot at 34-02 Starr Avenue. Another HBO series, “Sex and the City,” was also filmed at Silvercup Studios, along with numerous films, television commercials, and music videos. Cast and crew members of “The Sopranos” are shown here in 2000.

–Cynthia Blair