Totally eco-friendly!

• They are going to strip out all the perfectly good furniture, fixtures, etc in the Penthouse and send it to a landfill and then buy all sorts of cool biodegradable stuff that was made in China (via Coal fired electric plants.)
• While filming, the production machine will suck down more electricity then all of the other housing units in the building combined, but they will offset this by not eating beef for a week (Evil methane producers!)
• Also, they will give the cast two hybrid cars so they don't have to use their feet or awful subway to get around New York City.
• Finally, they will make a conscious effort to put little tips together with the cast about how make the environment better from the perspective of someone living in a $6 million loft (which I think we all need.)

but I am sure they will still claim that they are totally 100% eco-friendly.

You're kidding, right? The urban grit of the subway is one of the things that makes New York New York! I'm all for eco-friendly stuff, but I'm becoming more depressed that we're going to get less glimpses of the actual city this upcoming season.

New York City consists of 5 boroughs, brooklyn being one of them....so you are goign to see the actual city....manhattan, which im guessing you are talking about, just happens to be one of the 5 boroughs, not the entire New York City itself

You're not understanding me.

In these past few seasons, RW is set in a certain city but because the shows have been focusing on drinking, screwing and clubbing, we rarely get to see the city and those things that make a certain city stand out. Sydney was a city full of gorgeous beaches, but we may have seen them once or twice compared to the interior shots of the clubs they went to. And LA has so many different things going on with it, but hard to see when once again, we only see them in the clubs.

Season 1 showed a lot of NYC's character. We got to see the city streets, taxis, the subway, the Twin Towers, cafés, restaurants, parks, nightspots---I could go on. We got to see the flavor of New York. Will we see any of that in this Brooklyn season? I don't think so. It'll be more like these recent seasons. With them living in a penthouse as opposed to a grungy apartment, and being given a car instead of trekking out on their own, we aren't going to get an interesting glimpse of people learning about NYC, a la Julie from the first season.

Yes, I know NYC is composed of five boroughs---I wasn't born yesterday.

Was I clear, or did I just confuse people even more?

I know what you mean...we rarely see them in the 'real' real world, it's like they're in a bubble.

Thanks for the clarification. I think they will show more of the city this year, especially if rumors of them casting activists are true. Activists can't just sit in a house, they have to go out and be active lol.

well, thank goodness they're looking out for the environment.
:/

Yay!

Brooklyn is the new Manhattan. Well that's what those of us who can't afford to live in Manhattan say.

But seriously, i'm excited, NY is a great place for the RW.

I agree. I hope they stick with what they did with the Hollywood season and try and keep the cast generally in the part of the city that the show represents. In other words, there is plenty to do in Brooklyn, so don't spend the entire season in Manhattan.

Maybe Nick can answer this for us, but I was given the impression that the cast was told to stay in Hollywood and not venture out (unless for very specific reasons.)