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Jimmy Jib Rentals NYC - The Truth

The truth about Jib Rentals in NYC or Jimmy Jib Rentals in Boston is that these are tough cities to work in. Loading is difficult, a lot of buildings were never designed for large scale productions, and certain venues don’t even have loading docks,. Part of the grind of working with larger equipment is simply getting it in and out of the door without getting a parking ticket! At the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ you just pull up a vehicle right to a truck loading bay and often smaller vehicles are allowed to park in the dock area. You are loaded and parked in 10min! In Manhattan around 5th ave/midtown, you can have load ins that spiral thru a building, use multiple elevators, garage parking eats up a half hour, and it takes the better part of an hour just to get back to the stuff to start building! On smaller film sets, productions will have hire overnight parking fixers that are putting out fake cones or caution signs in parking spots as spaces free up! What other city works like that?! It’s tough being a jib operator in NYC!