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Recently, we water-taxied to Brooklyn to follow up on reports of The Real World in Red Hook Red Hook can refer to:
  • Red Hook, Brooklyn, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, USA
  • Red Hook, New York, a town in Dutchess county in the State of New York, USA
  • Red Hook (village), New York, a village in the Town of Red Hook, New York, USA
.

Cast members are staying in a newly renovated house on Pier 41. Their entrance is the long driveway that leads to Liberty Sunset Nursery and Steve's Key Lime Pie Key lime pie is a dessert made of key lime juice, egg yolks, and sweetened condensed milk in a pie crust. The pie is topped with meringue, then baked until the meringue is a golden brown.[1] Some key lime pies use other types of whipped toppings or none at all.  (famous for his key lime Pie on a stick).

Before The Real World (or Ikea), fallen concrete slabs behind Liberty Sunset were open to the public as a sort of make-shift garden. As it was, the nursery seemed to spill out Verb 1. spill out - be disgorged; "The crowds spilled out into the streets"
spill over, pour out

pour, pullulate, swarm, teem, stream - move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza"
 into the East River, and shoppers could sit with key lime pie, on a stick or otherwise, and fraternize frat·er·nize  
intr.v. frat·er·nized, frat·er·niz·ing, frat·er·niz·es
1. To associate with others in a brotherly or congenial way.

2.
.

Post-Real World renovations, a fence has been built along one wall of the nursery (between the flower shop and The Real World's landscaping) and a partition now blocks patrons from the permanently landscaped, half-submerged concrete blocks.

I spoke with one of the former workers on The Real World project. He noted all of the helicopters in the area: "They're MTV's probably. They're doing aerials."

We discussed the state of the house and whether or not it might return to a garden. "It wasn't exactly safe back there," he said, doubtful about it ever returning to a public space.

I complimented him on the iron fence design of their new back gate (very viewable from Ikea's water taxi); the boat motif (with an actual boat beached on several rocks for effect on their patio); their sizable Jacuzzi with views of the East River and Statue of Liberty Statue of Liberty

great symbolic structure in New York harbor. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 284]

See : America


Statue of Liberty

perhaps the most famous monument to independence. [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 284]

See : Freedom
; and the several (very New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
) street lamps, carefully positioned around the deck.

The worker laughed about never actually seeing the show before, "until that John Mayer song had a lyric about it, I kept asking everybody what The Real World was," he said. "Write that in you're article: most of us that worked on the set had never actually seen the show."
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Author:Em Whitney
Publication:The New York Observer
Date:Aug 28, 2008
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