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]
Photo by grw95
To understand the appeal of DUMBO one has to go inside those huge former factory buildings. The apartments are pretty special,
spacious and luxurious with low monthly maintenance.
In many ways living in a loft style apartment in DUMBO is the polar opposite of living in a brownstone. For one thing, 95% of the neighborhood population just moved in within the last five years. There is no old-guard, new-guard baggage. And another difference is that all the fixtures and buildouts are modern and brand new. No old bathrooms to renovate or creaky stairs to straighten out. that has its appeal to many -including former brownstone owners who cashed in.
i don’t think most of you know williamsburg if you don’t understand the depths of the restaurant scene or believe that another area in brooklyn matches it.
que sera.
anyway, regardless of what you may personally think or want, an apartment on the waterfront with manhattan views is going to be desired by many people. it will be a good investment. perhaps an investment that someone rents out.
my neighbor’s 60+ father was visiting the other day and told me how he’s bought in the Toll Bros highrise. he won’t be living there, it’s to rent out. the apt he bought will never have blocked views either he said.
if a 60 something guy who lives in staten island can see that there’s a tremendous oppotunity right now to buy waterfront property surely a brooklynite can too, no?
contrary to some, i happen to think park slope doesn’t suck at all.
i love it, actually.
i think it’s important to love where you live. saying that everything sucks is no way to live your life.
C’mon now, EVERYTHING that is EVERYWHERE kinda sucks, doesn’t it?
i’ll take that compromise, 12:50.
i won’t be leaving park slope anytime soon, anyway.
Here’s a thought: BOTH Dumbo and Williamsburg SUCK. Just in slightly different ways.
Now kiss and make up.
I thought Dumbo was lofts for millionaires who took the water taxi to wall street? Not exactly cutting edge creativity. I think there was about 5 minutes of that for Dumbo in 1995. I like going down there with my kid to the waterfront to get chocolate and go to the playground on occasion.
ummm…yeah…because williamsburg is so much cheaper…
b/c Dumbo is so over priced it makes my head hurt. If the rents where half it would be a dreamland.
thats why I cant comprehend