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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suck level…10 is most sucky…1 least suckified:
williamsburg: 9
dumbo: 5
park slope: 3
greenpoint: 8
bushwick: 7
cobble hill: 3
brooklyn heights: 4
bay ridge: 6
boreum hill: 4
ft. greene: 3
manhattan: 10
If you realize that everything sucks, you can then start applying “degrees of suck” to things and rank accordingly!
i don’t think that one can fairly compare the transformation of dumbo to that of soho or tribeca, for they took place during entirely different atmospheres. the large volume demand for hi-lux living in the city (esp outside manhattan) is a rather recent phenomenon that really started picking up steam in the early 90s, approaching the mid-1990s, just before/as dumbo was to see its initial lux resi development. the neighborhood has basically done 100% of its development in the midst of a resi real estate craze. on the other hand, soho and tribeca were able to their initial growing more gradually b/c those neighborhoods started to sprout their legs during times of less extreme lux resi development interest.
i agree that there is a bit of an artifical feel to dumbo, but it is what it is – still not such a bad place. but if anyone tries denying the same re today’s soho or tribeca, they need to wake up. esp soho – it’s basically now a rich man’s woodbury common with on-site housing and entertainment.
1:31 – you seem to be implying that you need blacks and Hispanics on your “movie set” to make it interesting?
the sheer desperation by brokers touting williamsburg on this thread today is enough to make ANYONE hate it.
your comments 1:14 are absurd and ridiculous.
your 60 year old whoever is one of the only people to buy in the nearly bankrupt toll bros project.
DUMBO feels artificial. No wonder, as it is an “instant neighborhood” of high-priced condos. The artists who might have lent it an early-Tribeca vibe have been forced out. And so you get suburban-style families–virtually all white–living on what seems like a movie set. Robert Wilson must be losing it.
It’s sad, given what might have been.
Bobo = boring boring.
ARGHHHH- the old THERE ARE NO GOOD RESTAURANTS IN williamsburg debate that always makes me want to kill someone. Anyone been to Dressler? Moto? Dumont? Marlowe & Sons? For God’s sake, just admit there are good restaurants there if NOTHING else. Amazing to me that people on this site are SO threatened by Wburg.
That being said, I LOVE Dumbo as well. Just feels like you would get a little claustrophobic living there – well, really if you have kids and have to spend a lot of time in your neighb esp with kids, since you are kind of stuck in this little enclave without easy access to other neighborhoods. But it has such a wonderful feel to it. countercultural? not at all. bohemian? Try BOBO (bourgeouis bohemian for those of you not in the know) – it is bobo to a T.
“95% of the neighborhood population just moved in within the last five years.”
You’re touting that as a BENEFIT?
Ick.