CBS TV Drama Films Scenes For Season Finale In Bayside

BAYSIDE, QUEENS -- Several New Yorkers watched from their homes as production crews transformed a residential Bayside street into a set for the CBS TV show "Elementary," which returned to the neighborhood to film scenes for an upcoming season finale.

Sixteenth Avenue was cleared on Friday as CBS shot scenes in the residential neighborhood for "Elementary," an American crime drama starring Johnny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu that's loosely based on Sherlock Holmes. The show, whose sixth season is slated to air in 2018, planned to film scenes for the season's finale along the Bayside street from 6 a.m. to around 10 p.m, location coordinator Morgan Collins told Patch.

"We were looking for kind of a residential-looking home in the city and this worked out," Collins said. "We were at Queens college earlier this morning, so it worked out logistically, too."

While Collins said he couldn't give details on the finale, he said it will likely air sometime in May. An official finale date has yet to be released for the show, which just got picked up for eight more episodes, Collins said.

This isn't the first time "Elementary" has shot in the neighborhood. CBS has frequented Bayside and other Queens neighborhoods in the years since the New York City-based show began. In 2014, the crew spent the day in Bayside filming an entire episode of the show in various businesses and locations along Bell Boulevard, Times Ledger previously reported.

Elizabeth Fisher, then a member of the director's team, previously told the Times Ledger that filming in the locale was an important part of the series.

“New York is a major character of our show, and we really want to highlight it and all the diversity,” Fisher told Times Ledger. "We shoot in different neighborhoods all the time and really like to feature the whole city."

Years later, that still stands. The show is slated to film yet another upcoming episode in Bayside on 211th Street, Collins said.

The show's filming prompted curiosity and excitement among locals. Bayside resident Monica Hamacsek-Staniorski stopped on her way into work Monday morning to snap a photo of a poster for the filming, which she later shared with fellow locals on a Bayside Facebook group.

"I just happened to drive by and notices the sign," Hamacsek-Staniorski told Patch. "I do plan to drive by again later today after work to check it out."

Lead image via Monica Hamacsek-Staniorski.