Dumbo Article in Toronto Star
July 27th, 2006
Toronto Star has an article about Dumbo’s emerging neighborhood, and says it’s not quite SoHo yet, but has some gems:
SoHo is short for South of Houston Street. That makes sense. Tribeca means Triangle below Canal. That’s okay.
NoLIta — North of Little Italy — is pushing the cute geographical acronym (CGA) a bit too far. Now, however, New Yorkers have outdone themselves. Welcome to DUMBO — Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass.
Old factories have been overtaken by chi-chi restaurants, far-out record shops and tony delicatessens and chocolate shops. Ultra-swanky bars attract the after-work set, and ultra-thin models strut about as cameras whir, taking advantage of the gritty landscape for the latest magazine mood shot.
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The greatest transformation might be the one that’s happening closest to Manhattan, or at least closest to the Manhattan bridge. DUMBO (it’s hard to write that with a straight face) is most decidedly still in transition, no longer derelict and decrepit but not yet SoHo. You can pass a lovely boutique selling what looks like nothing but virgin-white women’s clothing, and then next door there’s a hulking mechanic banging on a 20-year-old Honda Civic at the local body shop. Down the road you’ll spot a pair of local Goths trudging home from a night on the town, their enormous, knee-high, black boots clonking noisily on the broken pavement.
Virgin-white clothing, Goths trudging home, and mechanics? Interesting images, Toronto Star.
{Brooklyn gets the spit and polish treatment, Toronto Star, July 22, 2006}
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Wow has this place changed. There used to be human beings living around here. What happened?