While Dumbo isn’t getting MTV’s Real World Brooklyn (although according to Curbed, Red Hook isn’t crazy about it), another reality show, called Engine Room takes place at a renovated loft at 155 Water Street. Beginning on Monday, September 15, MTV and its mtvU channel will broadcast a series that followed 16 creative types in the Dumbo loft to compete for prizes and $400,000 in cash and a chance to program the giant MTV screen in Times Square for a night. Today’s NY Times article about the show states, “the teams of contestants are divided by the regions they come from: Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America and North America. They are visited during the competition by guests like the musician Moby; Kevin Smith, the movie director; and the British pop band the Ting Tings.” Has anyone spotted the group?


Above: The raw space for Engine Room before the renovation. Photos: blog.mtvengineroom.com

{Like ‘The Real World,’ With More Computers, 11Sept2008, NY Times}
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4 Responses to “MTV’s Engine Room Filming in Dumbo”

  1. mod squad Says:

    I think I skidded through a huge pile of feces the other day. Was that them?

  2. jake Says:

    They’re on the floor upstairs from us, but they finished filming a few weeks ago, and have since cleared out. We did get to see Kevin Smith in the elevator, though– that was cool.

  3. Geddy Says:

    Holy crap, is that Rush in that trailer? Based on that alone I will watch every episode of this.

    Thank you mtvU!

  4. Ron Mwangaguhunga Says:

    “creative types”?

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