Production for the CBS Show “Elsbeth” consumed all available sidewalk space in front of Go Natural Health Food recently. PA’s for a show about “the offbeat, unconventional but astute attorney who, after a successful career in Chicago, utilizes her singular point of view to make unique observations and corner criminals alongside the NYPD” directed passers-by to walk instead on Queens Blvd. traffic between two traffic cones.

It’s helpful to remember these truths about film production in Sunnyside/Woodside:

• Production staff have no authority to stop you from walking on a sidewalk.
• The economic rationale for film and TV tax credits isn’t well supported by data.
• Most productions don’t patronize neighborhood businesses. Case in point: nearby lunch mainstays El Buen Sabor, Brookside, and Souk El Shater, had short lines at the time.