Mystery Tents in Dumbo
What the heck goes on in all those tents behind this yellow wall at the corner of Front and Gold in Dumbo? Is it a restaurant or some kind of store? GMAP
What the heck goes on in all those tents behind this yellow wall at the corner of Front and Gold in Dumbo? Is it a restaurant or some kind of store? GMAP
Hilarious post! My fiance refused to consider 99 Gold St. b/c of the eyesore that is the building in question. I always thought it looked like an old fast-food joint. Or, you know, a used car dealership converted into a Buddhist temple. Maybe some of the monks will snap up studios at 99 Gold – they got a basketball court in that ish, B!
that’s also vinegar hill, not DUMBO. pretty cool adaptive re-use IMHO. once, while walking by, i saw some young monks playing basketball with their robes hanging below their t-shirts. only in brooklyn will you find buddhist monks playing b-ball in an old gas station!
Kitten, thanks for enlightening us.
http://kalachakranet.org/
It’s the Dorje Ling Buddhist Center
the tents are probably for this weekend’s Kalachakra Initiation
27-29 May 2006
maybe they’ll have a public viewing of a Sand Mandala if they’re making one. Should be amazing.
Here’s their website
http://www.jonang.org/nldetail.asp?id=89
I forget where I heard/read it, but it was apparently a used car lot that was turned into a Buddhist temple. Cool thing to have in the nabe, too bad it looks so… well, like a used car lot turned into a temple…
Multiple tents suggests that it’s something other than someone’s backyard, no?
“Is it a restaurant or some kind of store?”
Why always the assumption of commerce, grasshopper?
It’s a Buddhist Temple from what I understand.