“Dumbo” is kind of misleading for this one. This five-bedroom, five-bath in the price-dropping Bridgeview Tower basically sits on top of the Manhattan Bridge. The views don’t suck–and neither does the double staircase, master suite sitting room or wraparound terraces–but the glossy, glass and marble execution is a little frigid, especially when compared to the Read More
Etsy is an online marketplace for every concievable variety of hand made craft, and their Dumbo office reflects its DIY ethos.
Mashable took a stroll through the space, which Etsy has occupied for a little over a year.
It’s packed with taxidermy deer, steampunk flashdrives and a beautiful facade from a London telephone booth.
They Read More
Pregnant? Thinking of becoming pregnant? Never seen one of these annoying ads asking you such questions on the subway?Aptsandlofts.com broker Jonathan Tager has just the Dumbo condominium for you.
Its master suite and nursery (not to mention Dumbo’s organic grocers and Maclaren-wide sidewalks) cater to the hip-young-couple-plus-accessory-baby demographic. The J’s perks fit the lifestyle, too: yoga Read More
- Yes, Tony Danza has a reality show in which he is…a teacher? What? But also, he allegedly “cries no fewer than four times” in the first episode. Yes. Give us more. Who’s the boss…of emo-land?
- Broccoli advertises. People pay attention and buy more broccoli. Does this mean people are also buying Read More
On a chilly March afternoon in Dumbo, in a back room of Gleason’s Gym, Yuri Foreman, a world champion boxer who is training to be a rabbi, was trying to justify his twin personas, as violent sportsman and nurturing Jewish priest. “The human being exists as the physical body and the metaphysical,” Foreman told The Read More
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“Beef Hampers Rap Museum.” [WSJ]
Third deputy mayor departs Bloomberg administration [WNYC]
Dumbo is the new Madison Avenue [WSJ]
Is The Good Wife the new Law & Order for New Read More
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Educational publisher Flocabulary is attempting to revive a legacy dormant since the days of Schoolhouse Rock, though it’s added a hip-hop inflection for a new generation. Citing influences from Debussy to De La Soul, Flocabulary was created in 2005 to teach academic content to grades 3 through 12, and Read More
Before they were flashes of pixels jettisoning across screens, books meant pages and crackling spines and penned notes in the margins. Although bookstores may be closing, Dumbo’s recently opened art gallery Central Booking is devoted to those strange relics of pre-Kindle civilization.
It’s perhaps fitting that physical books are finding homes in Read More
The Brooklyn Bridge really is for sale—or, at least, its renovation was recently up for bid. Named by Popular Mechanics as one of the country’s top 10 pieces of infrastructure in need of serious repair, the historic suspension bridge flunked the federal rating system’s test for structural efficiency. Last year, the city decided a makeover Read More
Cave Canem, a poetry center that cultivates the voices of young African-American poets, is expanding to four times its current space in Dumbo. The foundation, which organizes poetry workshops across the country, signed a three-year lease for 1,678 square feet at 20 Jay Street. The space will function as offices as well as public space Read More
