White Collar Production Company Makes Good to Slope Residents

As we reported two weeks ago, the USA Networks show, White Collar, was filiming here on 8th Avenue and President Street for over a week. While passersby and looky-loos were ogling Matt Bomer, the residents of President Street between 7th and 8th were subjected to a lot of disruption from the crew. According to our tipster: 

They had their generators on in front of our homes non-stop from 4 a.m. to 10 p.m. The noise was unbearably loud. 

While many people lodged complaints, one smart President street dweller approached the head of production and pleaded for some consideration, and gently suggested that a donation to the block association would go a long way. As is often the case, killing them with kindness worked out, and not only did they get that nice donation (expect a banner block party this year, folks), but the prodcution company went one step further, and provided three free hours of a Van Leeuwen ice cream truck for all the kids on the block this past Saturday afternoon. Well done, White Collar. Maybe we'll even watch your show now.