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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“amazing the restaurants and stores are”
amazing?? come on now.
there are a couple that are OK or maybe even above average, but absolutely NONE are amazing.
i like beacon’s closet, although i now go to the one in park slope because just getting off at the bedford stop makes me ill.
the river cafe is more of an amazing restaurant than anything williamsburg has to offer.
i think we UNDERSTAND what you are saying.
i just don’t agree. nothing you say about williamsburg will make me like it. i’ve been a million times and can’t stand it.
i prefer dumbo. why is that so hard to believe?
you like williamsburg better and i like dumbo better. what’s so hard to comprehend about that?
oh my god 12:00. you obviously don’t get it.
1) there are several NEW dumbo buildings that went up.
2) domino and others will be older buildings that will be renovated. they are not done yet. will take a few years.
3) dumbo is LOUD, not kinda loud. unbearably soul crunching loud.
4) dumbo is FILTHY. 2 bridges and the BQE. it’s dirty and smelly of exhaust.
5) dumbo has a giant giant PROJECT.
6) there is a tiny beach. williamsburg will have blocks and blocks of park/beach.
7) can you think that others might like the williamsburg waterfront? can you imagine the views?
8) there’s very few amenities in Dumbo compared to williamsburg. i don’t think most on this site really understand how amazing the restaurants and stores are there.
ever been to brownsville, camden, nj, east new york, parts of newark, south philly, east baltimore, mississippi??
i’d say poor people do their share of ruining “everything” as you say.
rich people pretty much ruin everything.
yes, i’ve been to dumbo. i worked there for a year and love it. it’s one of my favorite neighborhoods in new york city.
i guess my ears are not as delicate as yours.
That beautiful bridge is a damn noisy thing to be under. Ever actually been to Dumbo? It’s a near constant rattle from above.
the williamsburg waterfront is ZERO comparison to dumbo.
it will be made up of hideous new construction glass buildings far from the subway.
you are comparing that to mostly old renovated wharehouses on cobblestone streets, sitting under one of the most beautiful bridges in the world??
there are people who are into williamsburg and then there is everyone else. i see no appeal whatsoever in williamsburg. you couldn’t pay me to live there.
dumbo prices are high because of proximity to manhattan and because of the views. also, some hype.
i worked with a photo studio in the area for several years and saw the changes. think the artists just moved to williamsburg/east williamsburg, etc.. no one i know who was there a couple of years ago is still there, but that’s the way it goes.
personally, the noise, pollution and the projects put me off as a place to live, and I always thought it would’ve been a great commercial area instead of residential because of those negatives.
i believe that when the williamsburg waterfront gets developed, which will probably really take at least 3 years to see a few buildings up and some of the river front turned into public park land, that it will surpass dumbo in terms of desirability for those who want waterfront.
the burg’s waterfront will have none of dumbo’s problems – especially that project – and have access to many more shops and restaurants and both of higher quality. also, there will be extensive public riverfront / park land. expect to see dumbo + pricing for these properties in the next 5-10 years. I am not in a position to move, but i would buy there if i was.
believe that waterfront taxi’s will continue to flourish too. also, there’s easy bridge access from the waterfront area.
i don’t think that people on this site are looking to invest in apts in williamsburg, so they might not get or care about what i am saying here, but there will be a market for these buildings as evidenced by what happened in Dumbo, a worse area.