European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 4, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Television Cosby show is a Friend to Brooklyn by Fred Rothenberg associated press the Cosby critically praised and a Winner in the is also a darn Good neighbor to a score of Brooklyn shopkeepers and tenants who live near the studio where Bill Cosby tapes his abcs hit about a Nice family from a new York City is made in a Small studio on 14th Street and Avenue m in the heavily residential Section of Midwood in theres no Hollywood fantasy trip on Cosby no driven studio in a private Corner of the staffers on the Cosby show trip Over real life and regular folks every across the on another Corner of 14th and m is the Cwa Coffee owner Roza an Elawyer from Russia who immigrated Here via Cooks the a camera and off Carnera food for the Cosby Iosilevich wont let anyone else prepare Cosby not even her for one she made brisket of beef with italian Rice Cosby is so said he was Busy with a meeting one but the next time he saw me he said he was so sorry for not saying Good a frayed newspaper review of the Cosby show is taped to was its a arid Iosilevich says it will stay on As Long As Cosby does the shows writers have offices above the Coffee Down the Block is Maxies the Jerusalem ii Kosher the 20th Century fish Market and jacks pizza where the Walls boast pictures of Ronald three Apollo astronauts and this sign no smoking or combing hair behind Pete who manages jacks with his says Cosby teen age actors come by for slices with extra they give him tickets to but he works too he olans to go during his August Iosilevich considers Cosby a terrific the show makes the Street very alive and she As much As the show gives the Cosby and his coworkers say they get a lot working Here is a reality Check and said producer Caryn its but it keeps us in two Cosby episodes this for the kids came Home bundled in Winter gear from the tips of their Heads to their in los said who moved from California for the we never would have been As conscious about the cold and the Winter but for Sarah the shows costar re Brooklyn is a she says the boroughs clothing stores offer neither the variety nor the quirkiness of manhattans we Dot want the kids to dress in the same Lemire with a Black family on you cant go with Light there be too High a so lend up shopping in the red and Blue ranges Rcv intense most things i find in the big Bill Cosby shows off his award from Temple University last year As he is inducted into the Temple Hall of Cosby played football for Temple in the Early now a Brooklyn neighbourhood is glad to have the on its department stores in i have to do a lot of Backan Forth for Quick the staff uses the tailor shop across the said Frank the studios facility manager for 24 when there was a problem with the nearby locus body and fender shop came right Over and fixed they refused Money they got the cops on the inspectors and almost anybody with a Brooklyn accent can get in Scotti figures 40 Perice Nepf the for the first taping on from the people in this area Are like family to be Snel iter and the other producers work out of a v modified three bedroom apartment a Block from the where people offer to vice in the one neighbor suggested they cover the furniture on the set in she said it would last Sneider the hallways of sneiders apartment building Are thick with the Aroma of Chicken in the residents sit outside on Lawn chairs on the offering opinions on soup to you dont see people like that in said when Cosby agreed to do the he chose new York for his i live on the last he i worked in los Angeles for 15 and the shows were still cancelled Only one other primetime entertainment program is produced in new lbs Kate in i feel very special about said who gave the Crew sweatshirts with Brooklyn logos for were the Only show shooting in this were not part of a factory of shows on a studio and the great thing is that network executives dont fall by 20