Time to Start Getting Real, Downtown!
It’s official: The cast of the 21st season of “The Real World” will live in Downtown Brooklyn’s Belltel Lofts, says the Daily News. And how pumped does Belltell owner David Bistricer sound? Palpably. “It is what it is. It’s the ‘Real World,'” says Bistricer. (Isn’t it kinda weird that the day a measure to preserve…
It’s official: The cast of the 21st season of “The Real World” will live in Downtown Brooklyn’s Belltel Lofts, says the Daily News. And how pumped does Belltell owner David Bistricer sound? Palpably. “It is what it is. It’s the ‘Real World,'” says Bistricer. (Isn’t it kinda weird that the day a measure to preserve Starrett City’s affordability is announced, spurned buyer Bistricer is in the news for bringing the height of philistine vulgarity MTV to Brooklyn?) The seven strangers will be living in a $6 million, 6,000-square-foot, two-story penthouse. A Jacuzzi will be imported. Fun facts: The spread will be the smallest in “Real World” history, and filming will not be allowed in Belltel’s common areas. See you at Floyd, guys.
A Cast of ‘Pioneers’ to Invade Belltel Lofts [NY Daily News]
‘The Real World’ Opting for Downtown Brooklyn? [Brownstoner]
Pic of former Real World cast member by Kullpepper.
I have a strange suspicion this show will be the last The Real World – ever. That can only be a good thing. This last season will with a cast member from the very 1st season will make the show come full-circle.
If any of the young persons on ‘Real World’ decide to renounce the profligate and vapid lifestyles that are apparently the show’s chief appeal, they will be welcome around the corner at our Church of St. Boniface for some Other World!
Heather, that would be an unbelievably delicious train wreck to watch. Alex and Simon would first need to make sure they fixed up the holes in their floors or take out additional insurance to cover the inevitable and involuntary free fall from the parlor floor through the garden level and into the basement upon arriving back at 4am from Union Hall.
I would have thought DUMBO would have been a much better location and better space as opposed to the Belltel Lofts building. I saw the units and finishes at Belltel last year and it is very cheap and even though the building is an Art Deco prewar building, the conversion to condos has rendered the interior a maze of paper mache walls.
It is very good fortune that the penthouse units has no neighbors since the hallways are only a thin layer of sheetrock and all the doors are cheap and hollow. The floors are cheap plastic like bamboo and the ceilings are bare concrete. David Bistricer, who owns the building via Clipper Equity is a jack-ass for allowing such cheapness in this building and RC Dolner, the contractor is a revolving door of shoddy workmanship and inferior quality. He should be forced to spend a few months in this crap of a building with neighbors above, below, next to on either side and try to “live” in this crap hole called a home, a condo. I’m sure he will lose a lot of hair from the stress and noise.
Buyers beware, this building is cheap.
What they should have done was have the cast move into the upper duplex of Alex and Simon’s Cobble Hill duplex. And work as au pairs for little Johann and Francois.
That would be a stroke of multi-demographic car-crash genius.
As it is, I, like I suspect every other resident in Brooklyn, am looking forward to hearing about teh drama on the blogosphere during the filming more than the show itself. Sadly however, if the Hills is any indication of kids today, there won’t really be any drama, just a lot of whining about clothing and parties.
Johnny, not only did we survive Real Housewives, we were left wanting more more more of our favorite wannabe socialites Alex and Simon (and Bethany’s zingers)!!
“makes no sense when they could’ve just moved 10 blocks in multiple directions and found places that would’ve made more sense.”
For those of us who are not obese, 10 blocks is close.
Since when did it become such that if everything your heart could desire is not within 1 block, the area is sh*t.
This is a new phenomenon on this blog.
Do people who are revitalizing Downtown Los Angeles or Downtown San Diego or Downtown Austin BALK at the idea of having to walk a few blocks?
I don’t think so.
We’ve survived Real Housewives. And we’ll make it through The Real World if we all stick together. . . .
12:47….Is that what MTV’s the Real World has done for your impressions of London, Paris, Seattle, Austin, etc?
How does the filming of one television show (which you will probably not even realize is in town) change your view of an ENTIRE borough of 2.4 million people into a “paradise for vapid minded suburbanite?”
Honestly the fact that you seem to have this notion of what Brooklyn is, and is not (I always thought Brooklyn was still pretty insane, as you say…there are more people here than in Manhattan afterall) but by the sheer fact that you’ve decided to put Brooklyn into this tiny little box shows you are just as vapid as the folks who may or may not be filmed on this show.