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Posted in TV | music on July 23, 2008
The Real World will live in Red Hook instead
MTV isn't talking about where it will film the 21st season of its "Real World" reality show, but in Red Hook, everyone knows the real deal.The hardscrabble home of Fairway and the hot new Ikea is clearly ready for its close up now that MTV has confirmed that it had abandoned the BellTel Lofts building Downtown.
As The Brooklyn Paper reported last Thursday, sluggish renovations of the luxury condo led MTV to seek a new spot, this one on Pier 41 at Van Dyke Street. Greg O'Connell who owns Pier 41 admitted that he had "signed some papers," but wouldn't say more.
Others in the neighborhood gave far juicier details.
"They came in to ask us to sign a waiver last night," said barista Claire Moore from the popular coffee hangout, Baked, on Van Brunt Street, adding that the producer was excited to find such a "cute" place to set a scene for laid-back Red Hook life...
[The Brooklyn Paper]
Posted on July 23, 2008 12:14 PM
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Man is this going to suck
Posted by Anonymous | July 23, 2008 12:28 PM
And I ask again, Where is Obama at??
Posted by Anonymous | July 23, 2008 12:36 PM
it's the real world. it always sucks.
Posted by Anonymous | July 23, 2008 12:36 PM
I want to cry.
Posted by Anonymous | July 23, 2008 12:47 PM
there goes the neighborhood
Posted by Anonymous | July 23, 2008 12:55 PM
i think we've finally found the one thing that everyone here can agree on !
Posted by Anonymous | July 23, 2008 12:59 PM
this is gonna be great...red hook is pretty barren in the winter...i wonder when theyll start filming.
Posted by Anonymous | July 23, 2008 12:59 PM
"And I ask again, Where is Obama at??"
In Israel saying one thing to the Jews, and then saying the very opposite of that the next day to the Palestinians.
Posted by Anonymous | July 23, 2008 1:01 PM
anon 12:59...Red Hook is barren in the winter? Your excited? Anon 12:55... there is your proof that the neighborhood as been long gone.
Posted by Anonymous | July 23, 2008 1:03 PM
you guys might want to try staten island, i hear its the next up and coming thing, if you are in to that kind of thing.
Posted by ANoN | July 23, 2008 1:04 PM
i hope their job is to assemble furniture for the ikea showroom. suckersssss.
Posted by Anonymous | July 23, 2008 1:04 PM
i bet they will all get mac book airs and then the teenagers in the low income housing projects will break them.
Posted by Anonymous | July 23, 2008 1:05 PM
i live on van dyke street. three blocks away. i've lived here for 5 years. what the hell has happened to my neighborhood?! i have an ikea in my front yard, now annoying post-adolescent whiny rich kids will be filmed on my street. i honestly feel sick.
Posted by jen | July 23, 2008 1:18 PM
how will they get to manhattan to pary? Will mtv buy them a boat?? Will they take public transportation??
Posted by Anonymous | July 23, 2008 1:28 PM
more "sluggish" renovations please!
Posted by Anonymous | July 23, 2008 1:29 PM
I'm just glad i live in a shit city so they don't want to film here.
Posted by E | July 23, 2008 1:31 PM
"I'm just glad i live in a shit city so they don't want to film here. "
oh come on, philadelphia isn't THAT bad.
Posted by Anonymous | July 23, 2008 1:40 PM
Dude, that's my landlord.
Posted by Tempy | July 23, 2008 1:45 PM
Come on MTV where is the Newark love.
Posted by Anonymous | July 23, 2008 1:59 PM
to Jen.
Shut the f up. I'll listen to someone who was born and raised in the hook, not some whiny annoying post-adolescent rich kid who moved in 5 years ago when it was still "cool" to move to Red Hook.
If you weren't born and raised in the hook, stand down!
Anywho, we need more photos of the fat dude from Man Man.
Posted by Anonymous | July 23, 2008 2:03 PM
they already had one in philly
Posted by nick | July 23, 2008 2:07 PM
THE HOOK? ANYWHO?
Posted by lola | July 23, 2008 2:15 PM
Real World Missions:
1.Canoeing up the Gowanus - sans gas masks.
2. Ikea Assembly - 5 cast members, 5 Billy bookcases... but only 1 allen wrench!
3. Drinks at Sonny's - name that drunken bluegrass tune!
4. Fairway - who can scarf the most free samples in under 5 min? No puking, models!
5. Baked - Just TRY to sit in one of their uncomfortable chairs. Just try! No? Ok, you lose! Eat a muffin. They're ok.
6. Hope & Anchor - Tranny karaoke! High five for each girl-on-girl cast member kiss!
7. Get drunk on wine from Lenell's... ok, not really a mission, but...
8. ... (there's nothing else to do in Red Hook)
Posted by Buzz Toast | July 23, 2008 2:32 PM
Im moving.
Posted by b | July 23, 2008 2:54 PM
Hope and Anchor has the most amazing wait staff in the Hook
Posted by Anonymous | July 23, 2008 2:57 PM
they suck???? Bring back Yo MTV Raps!
Posted by Vader17 | July 23, 2008 3:07 PM
I was really hoping they'd be in Williamsburg or Greenpoint. No way I'm going all the way out to Red Hook to fuck with them.
Posted by Anonymous | July 23, 2008 3:19 PM
I did the Ed Lover Dance upon hearing that the real world shithouse was in Red Hook and not my neighborhood.
Posted by Anonymous | July 23, 2008 3:20 PM
haha 310 youre a lazy hipster!
Posted by Anonymous | July 23, 2008 3:26 PM
they should just have the cast hang at fucking santos party house and thats it. it would be an intense torture for them!
Posted by Anonymous | July 23, 2008 3:27 PM
1.Canoeing up the Gowanus - sans gas masks. - I have done that its not so bad.
8. ... (there's nothing else to do in Red Hook)
go to the chelesa garden center and complain how they rip you off.
go to the Six Points Brewery!
Posted by Anonymous | July 23, 2008 3:29 PM
Rocky Napoli comes from a long line of longshoremen. That's all Rocky Napoli has to say on this subject.
Posted by Rocky Napoli | July 23, 2008 3:55 PM
Rocky Napoli eats the cum of a long line of longshoremen.
There, fixed.
Posted by Anonymous | July 23, 2008 4:07 PM
Real World Newark
I like it. For the finale, the whole cast can be executed in a schoolyard by illegals.
Posted by Anonymous | July 23, 2008 4:26 PM
the real world circus will only really pain your ass if you pay attention to it.
just chalk it up to a few more dipshits wandering the streets...nothing new.
sucks that it's in "the hook" though.
Posted by Anonymous | July 23, 2008 6:13 PM
Who even watches The Real World anymore? MTV has zero influence in the music or any other industry these days. I feel bad for the Red Hook establishments. At least years ago places near where The Real World was being filmed would get some sort of bump in sales and notice to go along with the hassle of having to deal with these idiots. Now they just get the hassle
Posted by A Manhattan Not Brooklyn Asshole | July 23, 2008 7:28 PM
i can't wait till they have real world: the funeral
Posted by Anonymous | July 24, 2008 1:00 AM
The Real World: Fairbanks
Posted by Anonymous | July 24, 2008 1:28 AM
"If you weren't born and raised in the hook, stand down!"
Word up man. seriously. I grew up there when no one wanted to even walk down there. I couldn't play in any of the parks when I was a kid because they were filled with junkies and dirty needles. I still live there now. Im sure MTV isnt telling the new cast that people still get shot around there
Posted by blah | July 25, 2008 1:03 AM