I Noshed Too Much Key Lime Pie And Now I’m Feeling Queasy
A preview of the next installment of MTV’s Real World, shot this season on Pier 41 in Red Hook:
The look of the Red Hook apartment feels equally premillennial. It is in a converted old warehouse with a canoe propped up outside. The show introduces cast members in different spots all over Brooklyn — Brooklyn Heights, Coney Island — as if it were a single neighborhood spackled with pizza and Junior’s cheesecake rather than a place of varied neighbors. The fantasy is that the yuppies never invaded, and the $7 million brownstones and $25-a-pound wild salmon don’t exist.
As [Salt Lake City-raised] Chet explains when he lands in the borough, speaking just under the Brooklyn Bridge: “Brooklyn is usually spoken of as more of a place you don’t want to end up.” He is worried he might be shot. Some intervention would have helped him realize that there’s little chance of that outside the River Cafe.
Location Scout: Pier 41.
Posted: January 7th, 2009 | Filed under: Brooklyn, Crap Your Pants Say Yeah!, Things That Make You Go "Oy"