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Remember our friends at 126 Rivington? It's the Melrose Place on the Lowest East Side, where all the residents are friends with everyone else, and they work together to achieve great things, like a Sunday Styles profile back in January. Soon Alan Salkin's piece ran, we heard rumors that the kids were in talks with The WB for a reality show. But now we hear it's gotten much, much worse.

First came this report, last week:

A friend of mine was at Schiller's the other night and she saw those guys who live on rivington and are developing some reality show there again, having what she assumed was some sort of meeting. Overheard one of them talking to some guy named JR about hbo....

And then this, late yesterday:

126 Rivington deal with HBO... 100% confirmed, I know most of the kids in that building. Warner Brothers sold the 126 Rivington reality TV show idea to HBO. They met with them the other day and talked about doing a documentary-type series. Hopefully that squashed the Hot Tub n' Bar on the back patio (a la The Real World) idea quickly as their lawyer told them initially that it was a good possibility. They are still in negotiations, but it looks lke they might get upwards of $20K each for participating.

Great. If it's on HBO, we might even have to watch it.

Earlier: Rivington Street, Capeside on the Hudson?