The Real World: Brooklyn Finally Gets Its Neighborhood
As rumored earlier, the new season of MTV's geriatric (and "pioneering" blah blah) reality series The Real World will be set in "downtown" Brooklyn. The producers are calling the neighborhood Fort Greene, but that's as amorphous a real estate designation as any of the others in Crooklyn (after describing where I live to various people, I've come to the conclusion that I live in 172 different neighborhoods. I just call it Stinktown). The seven drunken, broken strangers will be perched high above the Jay St./Borough Hall subway stop in a $6 million bi-terraced, 10-feet-windowed deluxe apartment in the sky (with, of course, hepatitis-filled jacuzzi!). A promo video for the apartment building (the Belltel lofts) that will try to contain the nightmare is above. Watch it. It's a good lesson in how to talk to/understand insanely dumb yet inexplicably rich New Yorkers.