Lights, camera, action … Now, where do I park?

LYNN – It will be hard to escape Hollywood for the next month as two or three movie and television production crews converge on the city to film scenes, sending drivers hunting for alternate parking.The action starts today with crews filming the ABC television pilot “Broad Squad” at three downtown locations, according to a schedule provided on Monday by the Police Department.Filming is scheduled for 16 Green St. from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on Burchstead Place at La Fe Restaurant from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., according to the schedule.Production crews will film in the morning, starting at 7 a.m., at Christie?s Restaurant by the Nahant Rotary.Union Street residents and shoppers should keep an eye out today for parking restriction signs during the daytime and into the evening.Downtown parking restrictions include Union Street between Green Street and Pinkham Street as well as Union Court; Green Street between Union and Violet Street, and West Green Street between Union and Essex streets. Burchstead Place will also have daytime parking restrictions.?Broad Squad” tells the story of the first class of women police officers to graduate and join the Boston Police Department in 1978. The TV pilot?s film schedule shifts on Thursday to the Highlands and Mount Vernon Street. Parking will be restricted between noon and 8 p.m. on Mount Vernon and Exchange on Thursday with police periodically holding up traffic on both streets while filming takes place.Highlands filming will concentrate on High Rock and Acorn streets with filming planned Thursday morning.?We?ll be working with the police; there shouldn?t be too much inconvenience,” said assistant location manager Brendan Kehoe.?Broad Squad” is also scheduled, according to the schedule provided by the Police Department, to film at Lynn English High School on Saturday. Filming continues into Sunday and the production is slated to return to the Item building March 24-26.?We want to make sure that the experience is a rewarding and exciting one for everyone in the neighborhood and that inconvenience to the neighborhood is kept to an absolute minimum,” Kehoe stated in a flyer posted downtown.?Kay?s Baptism,” the movie production featuring Robert DeNiro, Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper, filmed last week at the former Johnnie?s Foodmaster site on Boston Street. The production is tentatively scheduled to film at the Item building in mid-April.An HBO production about the Salem witch trials is scheduled next week to film at Lynn Woods entrances.