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?
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I lived in soho 30 years ago and there are no similarities between the two.
Soho was largely an industrial space with a lot of garment factories and artists paying pennies to live in huge but rundown loft spaces.
DUMBO today is a completely manufactured community. Totally pleasing to the eye and looks a lot like Soho (maybe late 80s early 90s) but the people who live there are by and large not avant guard artists but folks with money and investments.
very differnt communities.
That said open a theatyer. It would be great
And that’s what make it lame, 11:41. All the life has been priced out of it.
I disagree that dumbo is lame. It no doubt has the cool factor, no denying that. But outside of galleries there isn’t enough variety. I was looking into opening up a restaurant there, but the rents are sky high. How is the neighborhood expected to flourish if independent entrepreneurs can’t afford to set up shop?
what makes a place interesting?
I agree that Dumbo is lamesville but what makes a place interesting to you?
survey says…
where is the what? got some info for you and all the other naysayers…
” Bloomberg reported that bonuses will total a record $38 billion, which flies in the face of those grim down 10% and down 15% predictions. That comes out to about $201,500 for every Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers and Bear Sterns blueshirt on your block. Of course, the guys at the top will be clearing $10 million, so those averages don’t mean much.”
Dumbo went straight to lame.
Already the rents are too expensive to have anything but crappy chains and chase banks. It’s a good place for people that like the crappy parts of manhattan, but can’t afford it (ie. bankers who aren’t really making the cut)
From desolate to disney-poop in a matter of a few years.
I can’t think of a more charmless place, in prime Brooklyn, than Dumbo. When we first moved here, we went to see what all the fuss was about. “Really, that’s it?”, was our response. I know there are ghosts of the artists that used to live/work in the hood but….oy!
Tribeca and SoHo both had long periods when they were actually interesting. Dumbo went from Interesting to West Elm in about 4 years.
I have to say, DUMBO is missing a certain energy these days. It needs any help it can get.