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MARKOWITZ CELEBRATES RELEASE OF BROOKLYN LOBSTER

Photograph by Kathryn Kirk

In photo: Bill Jordan, owner of Jordan’s Lobster Dock, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz,  actor Danny Aiello, and Kevin Jordan, writer, producer and director of the new movie Brooklyn Lobster.

Borough President Marty Markowitz proclaimed Tuesday, November 1 as Brooklyn Lobster Day to celebrate the opening of a new film inspired by Jordan’s Lobster Dock in Sheepshead Bay.  Writer-director Kevin Jordan wanted to bring the story of his family's lobster shop to life on the big screen.  The feature film loosely portrays Jordan’s own family’s struggle to keep their business afloat after a bank defaulted on a loan intended to help them build an extension.  Filmed entirely on location in New York City, Brooklyn Lobster, a Martin Scorsese presentation, is written and directed by Kevin Jordan (Goat on Fire and Smiling Fish) and co-stars Academy Award nominee Danny Aiello, Jane Curtin and Daniel Sauli. 

“No where has more character – or a bigger cast of characters – than Brooklyn, USA,” says Borough President Marty Markowitz.  “It’s no wonder that Brooklyn stories hold some of the most special places in America’s cinematic imagination.  Today we are proud to congratulate the men and women who made Brooklyn Lobster, which looks like – pardon the pun – the next great Brooklyn tale.  This film tells the kind of moving, down-to-earth story that could only be made in Brooklyn.  Brooklyn Lobster will show another part of our wonderful waterfront – Sheepshead Bay – to the rest of America by putting this unique urban fishing community on the silver screen.” 

Aiello, who joined Marty to promote the film, said that “I am not from Brooklyn.  But I would love to live here.” 

Brooklyn Lobster opens Friday, November 4 in select theaters.