Loft-Style Dumbo Pad Has Rustic Exposed Beams, Skylit Office Space for $5,545 a Month
Mention Dumbo and a loft-style pad in a converted industrial building comes readily to the property seeker’s mind. So it is with this place, a one-and-a-half-bedroom on the top floor of a former warehouse at 81 Washington Street, now home to 103 rental units, managed by the Dumbo real-estate powerhouse Two Trees.
The place has high ceilings and exposed wood beams, as you’d want in a loft-style unit. The living space is generously proportioned, and the open-plan kitchen is attractive, with dark wood cabinets and a granite-topped island.
How Safe Is Dumbo’s York Street Subway Stop With Only One Exit?
Photo by Marcin Wichary via Wikipedia
There’s only one way in and one way out at the York Street F train stop in Dumbo, much to the displeasure of residents in the ever-growing area.
Did You Know the Cardboard Box Was an Accident That Grew Into a Brooklyn Empire?
Everything ends up here eventually, but Made in Brooklyn is a column exploring native, born-and-bred borough creations.
55 Washington Street. Photo via the Etsy Blog
The cardboard box may not seem innovative in 2016, but in 1879 it was ahead of its time — and initially conceived as an accident, on the watch of one of Dumbo’s early business leaders and developers.
Your Guide to Brooklyn’s In-the-Works Middle and Elementary Schools
A middle school is planned at the Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park tower at 664 Pacific Street. Rendering by Marvel Architects via DNA
Brooklyn’s school situation is ever-changing, with the education system shifting alongside borough demographics and sagging under the weight of incoming residents.
Did You Know the Brillo Pad Was Invented in Brooklyn?
Everything ends up here eventually, but Made in Brooklyn is a column exploring native, born-and-bred borough creations.
At the beginning of the 20th century, a revolution in home cookware was taking American kitchens by storm, with aluminum pots and pans supplanting their unwieldy predecessors: cast iron cookery. But new wares also required new cleaning methods.
Light-Filled Two-Bedroom in Dumbo’s Kirkman Lofts Renting for $5,350 a Month
This two-bedroom, two-bath unit is part of the Kirkman Lofts, which launched in 2011 in a converted soap factory at 37 Bridge Street in Dumbo. It’s got a loft-like feel, with high, beamed ceilings and oversized windows that let in a ton of light and offer a sweeping vista (but don’t appear to offer a river view, though).
The master bedroom is 12 by 14 feet with an en suite bath; the other bedroom is modest, at just over 10 by 10 feet, but it’s got a pair of those oversized windows and a second exposure as well.
The Insider: Young Designer Makes Manhattan Bridge the Focal Point in Dumbo Flat
“I didn’t have to try too hard with this apartment,” said interior designer Sheena Murphy of Sheep + Stone about the 650-square-foot, one-bedroom rental that was her starter home when she and her husband moved to New York from the West Coast. “The view of the bridge is a showstopper, and there was nothing I could do to prevent that from happening, except close the drapes.”
The main challenge she faced was satisfying her own need for “layers and comfort” with her husband’s tendency toward minimalism. Murphy, originally from Hertfordshire, England, hews more traditional. “I love a collected-over-time feel,” she said. “I grew up in Victorian homes with lots of chintz and layering.” Her spouse, on the other hand “would have an entirely white box.”
This balancing act was accomplished primarily through use of neutrals — grays, beiges, black and white — for the furnishings, and a pared-down selection of accessories to bring in color and texture.
Boymelgreen Settlement Helps Long-Suffering Owners of Troubled Dumbo Condo Building
Photos of Shaya Boymelgreen (top left) and Eric Schneiderman (bottom left) via Vos Iz Neias. Photo of 85 Adams Street by Fleur Losfeld
Finally, a little relief for the long-suffering condo owners at troubled building 85 Adams Street in Dumbo. After years of litigation, two once-prolific luxury developers accused of fraud have reached an agreement with the state to repair and relinquish control of the building and two others in Manhattan.
Meanwhile, one of the developers, Shaya Boymelgreen, remains under investigation for fraud at the building and others elsewhere in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
The Backfiring Acronym Meant to Deter Development: How Dumbo Got Its Name
Brownstoner takes on Brooklyn history in Nabe Names, a series of briefs on the origins and surprising stories of neighborhood nomenclature.
Photo by Hannah Frishberg
Along Brooklyn’s watery perimeter sits Dumbo — not the flying elephant, but a pricey industrial-turned-residential corner of Kings County where centers of America’s industry have been transformed into luxury condos.
Witnesses Promise $5.5 Million to Repair Dumbo Park. Enough to Fix Community Relationship?
Photo of Bridge Park II by Barbara Eldredge. Rendering of Bridge Park II skate park from the Jehovah’s Witnesses via Brooklyn Eagle
Talk about a quick turnaround. Just three weeks after local pols called for the Jehovah’s Witnesses to make once-promised repairs to Dumbo’s Bridge Park II, the religious organization pledged $5.5 million to overhaul the park.
Or is it a long-delayed turnaround?
