'Real World' + Belltel = 'Center of the World'?
Is “The Real World” filming in Belltel Lofts the best thing that could have ever happened to the condo? An article in The Real Deal examines the evidence: -“Last week we sold seven apartments,” said Prudential Douglas Elliman’s Ilan Bracha, who took over the building’s sales not long after the contract with “The Real World”…
Is “The Real World” filming in Belltel Lofts the best thing that could have ever happened to the condo? An article in The Real Deal examines the evidence:
–“Last week we sold seven apartments,” said Prudential Douglas Elliman’s Ilan Bracha, who took over the building’s sales not long after the contract with “The Real World” was signed. “We have three negotiating.” The building is approximately half sold since going on the market more than a year ago.
-“In my opinion, ‘The Real World’ contract is worth a couple of hundred thousand dollars in advertising, branding and PR,” says another Elliman broker. “They have to mention Belltel in every episode and have a shot of our lobby in each episode. Every bit of press about ‘The Real World Brooklyn’ will have Belltel in it, and as you can imagine MTV is a much stronger press machine than Clipper Equities, the developer.”
-“My sister is 38, and she watches it religiously,” said Jeff Ross, who with his wife bought a unit in Belltel in October of last year. “She was like, ‘You’ll be the center of the world!'”
StreetEasy shows there are 16 active listings at Belltel right now, ranging from $512,500 for a 566-square-foot unit to $1,890,000 for a three-bedroom.
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‘The Real World’, a reality tv show, is the ‘center of the universe.’
Is there nothing else of value other than real estate and entertainment/tv/marketing?
We are a doomed…please study geography and the bible. I do not care if you are not religious.
4:04, you answered your own question on why the two are different when you proposed to leave them on Marcy ave. In Brooklyn Heights, the ‘brats’ might chide you, in your hood they kill you.
“Miz”? thats ghetto, or should i say krazee.
whoops its 5pm! time to go home and kill all them thugs on my play station 3
You’re a loser 4;04 PM
No…how about we sympathize with the “roving gangs of teenagers” in Brooklyn who are habitually labeled as “thugs” and “ho’s” and locked up and generally given up on by white society for participating in mostly harmless (although admittedly juvenile – they’re teenagers – and sometimes destructive) behavior.
Now they get to watch a group of white kids move into the neighborhood and get PAID to drink and whore about and tear sh*t up on national television, while the same middle-aged white women who cross the streets to avoid “gangs” of black kids cheer the little jackasses on and have little voyeuristic fantasies about them. Then other white people, thrilled by the promise of proximity to this infamous display of entitlement (sexy!), will flock to the ‘hood, bid up the market and price these black kids and their families out of the homes they’ve scraped by for decades – sometimes generations – to rent or own.
Query, why is drunken debauchery cute when white kids are involved and criminal when black kids are involved? I’m with 11:23…Real World Brooklyn can go down, but if you want it to be REALLY real leave those brats on Marcy Ave at 2AM and don’t let the camera men help.
And yes, they do always have a token black on The Real World (and three on the Las Vegas season and two on the most recent season and no it doesn’t really change the argument).
listen to yourselves, you ARE the real world..
hey 3:36 maybe you should ask Jeff Ross’ sister out on a date, i bet you guys would really hit it off. She’s probably single as are you, obviously.
True indeed I’m 37 and I cant wait to get home from this hell hole job to play grand theft auto on my Play Station 3.
40 is the new 30!
forget about the BelTell residents, their prop values will be going up bc of the hype. howabout we sympathize for the stupid real world kids who will have all their drunken debauchery immortalized on tape. like getting a bad tattoo. 15 years from now, whoops!