Theater Director: Dumbo's the New Tribeca
Speaking of Dumbo…Avant-garde theater director Robert Wilson is seeing shades of the Tribeca of yore in the Dumbo of today. Wilson recently signed a lease for gallery space at Two Trees Management’s 111 Front Street after getting booted from the Vestry Street loft he’d lived and worked in for 34 years. I do not like…
Speaking of Dumbo…Avant-garde theater director Robert Wilson is seeing shades of the Tribeca of yore in the Dumbo of today. Wilson recently signed a lease for gallery space at Two Trees Management’s 111 Front Street after getting booted from the Vestry Street loft he’d lived and worked in for 34 years. I do not like Soho so much anymore, Wilson says. Dumbo seems more interesting. It reminds me a little of Tribeca 30 years ago. Of course, there are some similarities between present-day Tribeca and Dumbo: Last year Forbes ranked the area covered by the former New York’s most expensive ZIP Code, and Dumbo is already Brooklyn’s priciest nabe, hardly a no-man’s land rife with bargains like Tribeca was in the mid-’70s. Nevertheless, think Wilson’s got a point?
Byrd Hoffman’s New Dumbo Nest [NY Mag]
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To 2:00– I am describing the bland uniformity of Dumbo, one of the least diverse of any neighborhood in Brooklyn. Visit it and see. It is sad, but not surprising. It makes Brooklyn Heights, where I’ve lived for 20 years, seem like the U.N.
Sam at 1:14 spoke of DUMBO apartments as “luxurious with low monthly maintenance.”
That’s because all of the developers misused the 421A tax abatements, designed for affordable housing, and built this golden ghetto for the rich. Enjoy it until the tax abatements expire.
serious question – did people live (legally) in dumbo 20 years ago? i grew up in the boro and this is one of the few areas i never visited back in the day – never had any reason to go there.
Dumbo of 20 years ago was more like Beirut of 30 years ago.
I’ve thought about it. Dumbo of 20 years ago was like Tribeca of 30 years ago. But less centrally located and with more wild dogs.
Coney Island in the Winter: 11
coney island: a solid 4!
What, no ranking for Coney Island?
anything not brooklyn: >1
brooklyn: 1
various brooklyn nabes: varying shades of 1