The city is getting an infusion of cash in this medical dꦰrama.
The new NBC series “New Amsterdam,” which depicts a fictionalized version of Bellev🎉ue Hospital, is being filmed at the actual hospi🐽t🎐al and pouring money into the city’s public hospital system.
NYC Health + Hospitals, the financially challenged corporation that runs the city’s public hospitals has received $665,000 so far to allow the filming at Bellevue and🦩 three of its other medical centers.
The TV series is 💝based on the nonfiction book “” by Dr. Eric Manheimer🌠, a former Bellevue medical director.
It stars Ryan Eggold as the maverick medical director Max Goodwin who takes charge at New Amsterdam Hosp♐ital.
Viewers might recognize Bellevue’s distinctive lobby,🍃 which incorporates the brick facade of a 1940 administration building ✃within a new glass atrium.
In the seriꦚes pilot, Goodwin, on a balcony overlooking the lobby, receives a frantic pho꧙ne call informing him that a young patient who arrived at the hospital from Liberia may have Ebola.
Bellevue ♍actually treated the city’s first Ebola patient in 2014, a doctor who got sick in Africa while caring for patients there.
Scenes were also shot outside the First Avenue hospital in it𒁃s “comfort garden.”
Universal Television, which is producing♔ the show, is paying $10,000 a day to film at Bellevue and agreed to fork over up to $200 an hour for an unspecified consultant to provide technical medical advice, according the contract between the production company and Health + Hospitals, a copy of which was obtained by The Post.
Universal Television also paid $66,000 to film in March at Metropolitan Hospital in Manhattan, wh🍰ere shooting took place in an unused intensive care unit.
Film shoots at Brooklyn’s Woodhull ♎Hospital in ♉March brought in another $45,000.
Much of the filming is taking place at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, where Universal Television paid an in🦩itial fee of $187,500 to use an empty floor, vacant space on two other floors as well as on the hospital’s sky bridge.
“Some of the space built for inpatient beds long ago is still there, but it’s unoccupied and unstaffed,” said Robert de Luna, a spokesman for Health + Hospitals. “That presents a great opportunity for ﷺa production company and a welcome source🀅 of revenue for our health system.”
He said the health system was still determining how t𒅌o spend the exܫtra money.
NBC announced 💙this month that it ordered nine mo꧒re episodes of the series and filming is ongoing.