Netflix's 'Zero Day,' starring Robert De Niro, films near CT border
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Netflix's 'Zero Day,' starring Robert De Niro, films near CT border

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NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 27: Robert De Niro and Cuyle Carvin are seen on the set of "Zero Day" on Wall Street on April 27, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 27: Robert De Niro and Cuyle Carvin are seen on the set of "Zero Day" on Wall Street on April 27, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

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The cast and crew of an upcoming Netflix thriller, starring Robert De Niro, filmed near the Greenwich border last week.

A portion of Lincoln Avenue in Rye Brook, New York, near the Westchester County Airport, was blocked off by the town police department on Thursday, May 9, for the filming of the miniseries, "Zero Day," according to photos taken by Westmore News. De Niro was seen at two spots on King Street, the Port Chester-based newspaper reported.

The Rye Brook Board of Trustees granted the Netflix show approval in February to film a train crash scene on various dates from May 3-13. Netflix had requested the police close roads on SUNY Purchase's campus, specifically on Lincoln Avenue between the West Loop and King Street, and on King Street starting May 9, according to its filming application. 

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In "Zero Day," De Niro plays a former president who comes out of retirement to investigate a "potential world crisis," according to Netflix. The cast of the six-episode series includes Lizzy Caplan, Jesse Plemons, Joan Allen and Connie Britton. Yale alumna Angela Bassett, Dan Stevens, Matthew Modine, Bill Camp and McKinley Belcher III are also part of the ensemble.

The show originally received approval from the town last year to film in July 2023, but it shut down production in June amid the strike by the Writers Guild of America. The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists went on strike a month later.

In February, the board approved Netflix's request to use the same location for filming on new dates: film preparation on May 3, 6 and 7; filming on May 8 and 9 and restoration on Saturday and Monday. 

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Approximately 180-200 total cast and crew members were expected to be on the film set and park vehicles and equipment on SUNY Purchase property. Netflix planned on working with the university and Park2Fly for an alternate route through campus to the Westchester County Airport.

The crew of "Zero Day" was also spotted filming in New York City and Nyack, New York.

Netflix has not announced a release date for the series. 

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Abby Weiss

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Abby Weiss is a Fairfield County native and features reporter for CT Insider. She graduated with a B.S. in journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in May 2022. She writes about entertainment and interesting people in Connecticut, such as a Danbury pilot who helped inspire the Amazon Prime movie “On a Wing and a Prayer,” a Yale psychologist helping displaced Ukrainian families and a Connecticut filmmaker who was chosen for an all-civilian SpaceX trip to the moon. She also speaks with experts uncovering Connecticut’s history, including information about the state’s suffragettes of color and New Haven’s LGBTQ community

Abby is passionate about reporting on the environment, and in the past year, she's reported on Connecticut's unusually warm winter and the impacts of the 2022 summer drought. She’s also written about Connecticut’s child marriage ban and rent prices’ impact on Gen Z.

She has written climate stories for InsideClimate News and Callaway Climate Insights, and interned for The New York Post.