Robert De Niro’s Sleek, Seven-Story Wildflower Studios Gears Up In Astoria

Back in 1999, Robert De Niro was pushing to build a New York City soundstage at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a project he lost to other developers who turned it into Steiner Studios, a mainstay of NYC production.

Years later, the venerable actor and co-founder of Tribeca Enterprises — who can be spotted around Manhattan these days as the Tribeca Festival unspools — is the founder of a sleek new waterfront edifice at the northwest tip of Astoria, Queens. Wildflower Studios is ready, running and set to pop this summer, said Adam Gordon , the site’s developer, managing partner and founder with De Niro and his son, Raphael De Niro .

Wildflower opened its doors last fall with the industry emerging from the long tail of Hollywood strikes and shaken by a slowdown in television production as