You Won't See One of These for Dumbo

True, Brooklyn is the place to be right now, but who would want a necklace with our neighborhood name? That’s probably why Annie’s Blue Ribbon General Store doesn’t have one for “Dumbo”. That was the point behind the naming of Dumbo which was just the “right kind of Dadaist anti-marketing positioning to protect our turf from commercialism and developers.” [Ed: well at least at that time.]

From: Curbed NY: Do You Love Brownstone Brooklyn? Put it on A Necklace!

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  • i don’t know…. for years David Walentas would say when showing folks around that people thought he was the ‘dumb’ in dumbo…. we are proud

  • i don’t know…. for years David Walentas would say when showing folks around that people thought he was the ‘dumb’ in dumbo…. we are proud