The Times of UK Mentions Dumbo As the “New East Village”
September 10th, 2006
From The Times UK on Friday, a piece about the NYC housing market mentions the Dumbo, Harlem, and Williamsburg area becoming more popular as the limited land in Manhattan drives gentrification out to these areas:
“Another Brooklyn suburb to see its fortunes rise is Dumbo (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass), dubbed “the new East Village”. Situated between the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges, it has cobblestone streets, warehouse buildings perfect for loft living and incredible views of the Manhattan skyline. Two apartments in a converted cardboard-box factory in Dumbo sold this summer for $5.8 million.”
{Bite into a sweet big apple, The Times UK, September 8, 2006}
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September 13th, 2006 at 8:42 pm
The new East Villlage? Please….DUMBO, thankfully, will never be like the east village, it’s just not phsyically possible. I love the EV and lived there for years, but it’s main selling point is that there are an average of 24.8 bars per block and a deli on every corner. It’s by far the most covenient part of the city (and one of the most densly populated, esp, in terms of drunken hipstrers, homeless punk kids and older guys riding skateboards). It’s mainly low rise tenament building in a grid formation. DUMBO is, um, not that.
This is what happens when you try to “report” a story from across an ocean.
The best comparison, I think, is the DUMBO is Tribeca circa 1993. And even that is a stretch.
June 21st, 2007 at 5:54 pm
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