NYDN: The Year in Brooklyn
The Daily News performed its 2008 post mortem yesterday, with MTV’s Real World and Ikea topping the list of notable moments of the year. Ink-worthy scandals included a Virginian winning Miss Brooklyn, judges abuses parking privileges and Jamie Markowitz pinching some place mats from the Takashi Murakami opening at the Brooklyn Museum. Meanwhile, Coney Island’s…
The Daily News performed its 2008 post mortem yesterday, with MTV’s Real World and Ikea topping the list of notable moments of the year. Ink-worthy scandals included a Virginian winning Miss Brooklyn, judges abuses parking privileges and Jamie Markowitz pinching some place mats from the Takashi Murakami opening at the Brooklyn Museum. Meanwhile, Coney Island’s Astroland was shuttered and Atlantic Yards, after a period of demolition, went into suspended animation. From where we sit, 2008 will also be remembered as the year that residential developers really put their mark on the Downtown Brooklyn skyline and the year that the wheels really started to turn on Brooklyn Bridge Park. Other big developments in 2008?
Brooklyn Saw scandal, MTV Fame & Weirdness in 2008 [NY Daily News]
Photo by Dominic Ciccodicola for Gothamist
Oh and you know a little thing called economic crisis.
and the award to worst location casting goes to, yes MTV! moving them to red hook and calling it brooklyn is like getting busy and accidently hitting the belly button. LOL x 5000 tho that 4 of the real world crew signed a lease for STUY TOWN! HAAAAAAAAA! yeah the location is “good” for manhattan, but still. gross. tho ill admit im a lil gel. i wish MTV was paying for me to live in a 4000 a month one bedroom partitioned into two 🙁
*Rob*