Brooklyn 11223, Oxygen’s attempt at capturing some of that Jersey Shore ratings magic, focuses on a ground of 20-something pals hailing from Brooklyn’s Bay Ridge community (“a hard, full-blooded Italian neighborhood,” we’re reminded), as they “spend the summer learning about themselves, friendship, and the price of betrayal.” Some things that you will see in the trailer: the Wonder Wheel; hair pulling; a piping hot pizza; tennis shoes on a power line; an in-progress tattoo ; the Verrazano Bridge; people walking with their “swag on”; a chick in a Giants jersey riding a coin-operated kiddie ride; the Statue of Liberty; people in bathing suits; lots of hoop earrings; streetscapes; a woman with an inexplicably large feather in her hair; people texting; some embarrassing childhood photos; an inflatable pool; and the word ‘BETRAYAL’.
Does this new series look like it will provide us with as much guilty viewing pleasure as shows like Mob Wives or The Real Housewives of New Jersey? Probably not, but considering that this is the same network that unleashed Bad Girls Club on the world, who knows. Check out the trailer below, and let us know what you think in the comments.
Update: A publicist for Oxygen emailed us the following response to our post from the network: “Viewers can decide for themselves on March 26 when the story of Brooklyn 11223 begins to unfold and we meet this authentic group of friends set against the vibrant backdrop of the great and diverse Borough of Brooklyn.”
[via THR]
Comments (16)
I think I’ll pass. I prefer not to mar my otherwise lovely memories of Bay Ridge (which are nothing like these shenanigans). Also, who associates the Wonder Wheel with Bay Ridge? Coney Island, yes but not Bay Ridge.
Hahaha can’t wait!
despite the wonder wheel, that looks like the 11223 i know. didn’t know a whole neighborhood could be a stereotype. you must not be from there.
Anything containing a backdrop of Third Ave and the VB is Bay Ridge? Umm dude, can you put back the cyclone? please?
11223 is NOT Bay Ridge. Type that zipcode into Google Maps and you’ll see that Bay Ridge is at least two neighborhoods away to the west, bordered the water, between Shore Parkway and Gowanus Expressway. 11223 corresponds more closely to Gravesend.
Great, the trash of bay ride have a show.
You’ve got it right, Iris – 11223 was/is/always will be Gravesend; problem is, the name has neither the panache – one of the reasons the main street is called McDonald and no longer Gravesend Avenue – nor the recognition outside (or even within) the community that Bay Ridge has. It’s a shame, since there’s a lot of important local/national history here – FYI, they even have their own historical society (no joke), and a number of excellent books have been published on the subject (type Eric Ierardi and/or Joseph Ditta into Google, or go to the book section at Amazon). I grew up/went to school/met my wife/lived for 50 years/still work there and, although the Italian/Jewish roots and influence remain strong (and L&B still makes the best square pizza in the universe) it’s far from the insular Guidotown being portrayed; with the recent influx of immigrants from across the globe, you’re just as likely to find pelmeni as tortellini, babaghanoush as caponata, krakowska as sopressata, when you go shopping on Avenue U or Kings Highway. There’s already a “Jersey Shore” and “Mob Wives” – and there’s a whole neighborhood full of good people here that get along just fine, thank you, and don’t need this bull$#!+….
Caroline, since you mentioned Mob Wives, Angela “Big Ang” Raiola grew up and hung out in Gravesend 11223. A few of the moms of the girls from the show went to school and hung out with Ang. The show seems like it represents girls of Gravesend, past and present, accurately
Time to drop the Bay Ridge reference.
Clearly 11223 is not Bay Ridge and the Network must make a correction, regardless how nice they think Bay Ridge sounds compared to Gravesend!
I don’t intend to waste my time watching it,and I don’t care about it one way or another.
If you’re not interested in the show, just shut up & don’t watch it. It’s that simple. And if you’re one of those complaining about the “bad publicity” it will give the neighborhoods it was filmed in, have you considered how it may affect them in a positive way? It will put certain places on the map, which means greater “tourism” so to say & better business for the clubs &/or restaurants. Our economy could use this right now. Stop wasting time bashing what you hate & spend more time promoting what you love.
I know most of the cast personally and all I can say is this is gonna be a shit parade. For one the girl Joeylynn is already a stuck up bitch in real life I can just imagine how inflated her head is now that shes going to be on this garbage show. For the most part I’m going to watch the first episode or 2 just so I can really see how much trash it is and just be able to abuse these morons that did it.
This is NOT Bay Ridge!!! It’s Dyker Heights/Bensonhurst..before you go giving us a bad name, get your facts straight!! Bay Ridge is not “full blooded Italian”, hasn’t been so in close to 20 years, is not full of trash like these low lives and is not zip code 11223, it’s 11209! Don’t believe me? Go look it up like you should’ve done in the first place!
I went to high school with Joey Lynn and Carla and they we’re pretty nice and didn’t seem to be in drama so why now put themselves in foolishness like this blows my mind. Maybe it will make for good t.v but surely will not get the publicity or popularity of other shows like jersey shore, real housewives, mob wives or bad girls club. Pretty and smart girls that attended private catholic high school and attended college but yet acting trashy and uneducated on television, compromising their integrity…good luck ladies
Definitely NOT Bay Ridge or Dyker Heights, 11209 and 11228 respectively. We’re talking Bensonhurst, Gravesend, Coney Island. For Bay Ridge you might have wanted to do a little old Norwegian man, perhaps Middle East or Asian? Also Irish, Italian etc etc……I think the Borough Pres may want to get involved with a more positive campaign like “Brooklyn, a Great Place to Raise your Kids” I’m thinking 0.5 seasons. Or maybe change the whole thing to “The Rock” Staten Island those who escaped Bklyn and almost got to the Jersey Shore……
OK, does anyone actually KNOW for a fact what happened? Did Joey Lynn actually sleep with this Roberto dude or not? And if YES, did shse actually sleep with him while Christie was actually dating him? I know someone out there has to know. I would like to know so I don’t have to sit through ALL these episodes watching the SAME THING and the SAME Mystery. It seems like each new episode is JUST an extended version of the pilot. Everyone sits aorund and talks about the possibilty of Joey Lynn actually betraying Christie and sleeping with Roberto and how mad they all are about the fact that she DID do it, OR that she DIDN’T do it and she’s being false accussed. OK, and the two crews seems to cross paths at least once per episode and get upset with each other, exchange words and possibly throw hands.
Right now, Im liking Joey Lynn the best. Not sure why everyone sits aorund and comforts Christie when they’re still saying “No one knows the truth.” I did think that CHristie was pretty cute until I was exposed to her attitude and personality. She has the personality of the wet mop that cleans Napolean Dynamite’s floors. She also gives off this attitude that she’s drop dead gorgeous. I know, I know….it’s only showing what the show technically wants to portrray and we cant judge someone based off of technically 30mins of exposure a week. and for 6 weeks at that. So I understand that I cant jusdge her based off of 3 hours total of television air time. BUT if what Oxygen is showing and isnt doing TONS of editing, then Im NOT a fan of Christie at all! If my BEST FRIEND was accussed of sleeping with my significant other I would immediately confront her. It’s MY job to put it out there. If my best friend didnt do anything, I wouldnt expect her to be going all out to try and prove she didnt.
In 2006 I was accussed of cheating on my husband with a guy that came around from time to time and was from my husband’s hometown. I just gt whelm of the rummor a few times from mutual friends of our social circle AND from my husband’s friend’s wife. I was told by two different people that that it was disscussed, assumed, and believed that I had in fact cheated on my husband with this “dude”. My husband had gotten whelm of the rumors too, but he was told by the husband’s of the two people who told me. They didnt approach him and say “Yo, your wife is cheating and this is what we heard.”, they essentially said “Hey man, you know ‘JOhn Doe’ from Reality Dr? Well he’s ALWAYS talked about how much he liked your wife and wanted to bang her and how hot she is, like we’ve told you in the past, and well now….he’s saying that he FINALLY slept with your wife.”
Hearing this, I NEVER approached my husband to convience him of anything because it was SOOOOOO INCREDIBLY ludacris and ABSURD!! It was the most RIDICULIOUS thing I had EVER heard!!!! I didnt even get upset and I brushed it off, immedietly because it was sooooooo dumb. It was actually comical.” Finally a few months later, one night after dinner, my husband and I were in a disagreement over the waiter “flirting’ with me and ‘checking me out’ and me not “nipping it in the bud” immediately! My husband has NEVER acted like this…EVER! Even when I’ve been hit on or flirted with and he’s seen it, he has NEVER made a big deal of it and actually just laughed it off or blown it off. But he brought up the rumor that I had possibly “Cheated” and I THEN did I say something. I basically said “That whole thing has NOTHING to do with tonight because that dumb rumor isnt true so it has NO validation and is completely irrelivant and it’s almost like there being a rumor out there about you abusing animals.” Which he would NEVER do, because he adores animals. I wouldnt even confront him on that rumor. Well he let it go immediately because he realized it was soooo ridiculious!
ANYWAYS, PLEASE……………. DID JOEY LYNN GET IT IN WITH ROBERTO OR NOT???
Post a new comment