Dumbo NYC

Walt Disney Pictures will be filming for “Step Up 3D” on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 between 5am and 11pm. (Variety article). This will be the third film in the series following box office hits, “Step Up” and “Step Up 2 The Streets” and is set for an August 2010 release.

Filming locations:

• Both sides of Water Street (New Dock St/Main St)
• East side of Old Dock St (Water St/Front St)
• South side of Front St (Old Dock St/Main St)
• North side of York St (Washington St/Front St)
• Both sides of New Dock St (Water St/East River)

Also being filmed tomorrow (July 1, 2009) is “The Resident” (IMBD info), starring Christopher Lee, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Hilary Swank. This thriller is about a young doctor (Hillary Swank as Dr. Juliet Dermer) who suspects she may not be alone in her new Brooklyn loft and learns that her landlord has formed a frightening obsession with her.

If anyone gets any filming shots, please email to us!

Previously:
{Filming: Step Up 3D (Wed May 20, 2009)}
{Filming: Step Up 3D (Mon/Tue, June 8-9 2009)}

Speaking of parking, in the Mikey’s Hook Up blog, Mikey makes an observation about the fire hydrant that’s in front of their store in Dumbo (70 Front Street):

At least 3 to 4 times a day the Mikey’s Hookup in Dumbo is asked “Is this a real fire hydrant, can I park here?”

The real answer is Yes and No.

I’ve seen NYC traffic tow trucks make round after round scooping cars up and coming right back for more. It hurts to watch . I’ve also seen traffic cops walk right by and don’t feel it’s right to ticket cause of it’s placement.

It is a real live hydrant that’s a fact.

The curb was extended 3-4 years back when Front st. in Dumbo Brooklyn was getting a face lift. The city workers thought it was to much work to move the hydrant in a visible spot.

I’ve ask a number of different traffic officers and they all have different opinions about it.

According to the NYC parking violation code 40: Stopping, standing or parking closer than 15 feet of a fire hydrant. Between sunrise and sunset, a passenger vehicle may stand alongside a hydrant as long as a driver remains behind the wheel and is ready to move the vehicle if required to do so.

The hydrant is over 9 feet from the curb. So does that mean you really only need to park 6ft from it? There is nothing in the violation code stating the hydrant must be 15ft from the front or back of the vehicle . It just says “closer than 15ft”.

Don’t worry though. I’m sure it’ll get fixed sometime in the next 15 years. So be careful next time visiting the Dumbo MHU

Thanks for the parking tip Mikey. Now you know.

In addition to the Old Fulton parking lot that closed in April 2009, the 90 Washington Street lot (corner of Washington and Prospect Streets) is closing as of tomorrow, June 30, 2009 to make way for NYC parkland, according to the parking attendant. It is reportedly being used as a storage/staging area for the Brooklyn Bridge rehabilitation project.

With this lot closing, outdoor parking space is dwindling. The other outdoor lots around Dumbo are:

• 66 Sands Street (corner of Sands and Pearl Streets) - $250 per month
• 39 Front Street (at York Street) - $300 per month

There are indoor garage lots at the following (rates listed may change and not guaranteed):

• 85 Adams Street (Beacon Tower $325/mo)
• 50 Washington Street ($350/mo)
• 100 Jay Street (J Condo)
• 21 Front Street
• 20 Jay Street

Please comment on other indoor lots and current monthly rates in Dumbo and I’ll update this list.

Previously:
{Outdoor Parking on Old Fulton to Close, 22Apr2009}
{Dispute at 45 Main Confusing Parkers, 05Dec2008}

Did you catch the amazing sunset on Fri? (Photo by mo.postal)

The following are selected links from this past week on blogs and websites with discussion about Dumbo (and its neighboring areas):

• Mysterious NY HarborWay Banners, 26Jun09, i’m not sayin, i’m just sayin
• Exhibition at Dumbo Arts Center, 22Jun09, artdaily.org
• It’s Official: Nouvel, Jane’s Carousel Coming to BBP, 22Jun09, Brownstoner
• BQE Fix: Failure IS an Option, 22Jun09, Brooklyn Paper
• Construction Projects in Fulton Ferry set to commence, 23Jun09, FFLA
• 2009 Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival in pics & review, 25Jun09, Brooklyn Vegan
• Fulton Ferry in the 1970s, 24Jun09, FFLA
• Video from the Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival 2009, 23Jun09, TONY
• Ferry State Park Transfer to BBPDC, 24Jun09, Brooklyn Eagle
• Crime Down in Dumbo Up in 55 Wash, 26Jun09, yournabe
• Busy Weekend in Dumbo, 22Jun09, McBrooklyn
• An Afternoon in Dumbo, 23Jun09, vivalanetwork
• Ignazio’s Pizza, Dumbo, 25Jun09, McBrooklyn
• Improvised Showering At Cadman Plaza, 24Jun09, PMFA
• New Park Deal Struck, 25Jun09, yournabe
• St Ann’s Warehouse announces 09-10 season, 22Jun09, culturebot
• Jonathan Adler to open on Atlantic Ave, 22Jun09, Brokelyn
• BK’S Biggest Block Party Comes to DUMBO, 23Jun09, TMR

The Liberty World Outrigger Competition is one of the largest sporting events in New York Harbor and one of the most prestigious outrigger canoe races in the world and is happening on Saturday, June 27, 2009. The crews launch at The Cove in Brooklyn Bridge Park in Dumbo, where approximately 200 paddlers from around the world are expected to compete in Liberty.

With concurrent festivities at the Brooklyn Bridge Park race site and celebratory luau on race night, NYO estimates that attendance will be over 600 people.

For a detailed map, vantage points, and estimated arrival times, please visit www.newyorkoutrigger.org (Note: Course may change in inclement weather or for other safety reasons.) There will be members at the event if you are interested in joining future events.

{Liberty_2009_PressRelease.pdf}

A call for witnesses to a road traffic accident:
One of our neighbors crossing Washington St. at the junction of York St. was hit by a car and seriously injured on Tuesday, June 16 at 6:30pm.
If you witnessed this accident, please contact pleasehelpdumbo@gmail.com urgently.

1) Thursday (June 25): Galapagos Burlesque!
Doors - 8PM, Show - 9PM ($10 includes drink with admission)

Starring Legs Malone (”The prettiest girl in Burlesque”), Baltimore’s award-winning acrobatic burlesque duo Trixie Little and the Evil Hate Monkey, and Amber Ray the Professional Sensationalist, this show is going to be great and anyone who hasn’t seen burlesque before won’t want to miss it!
More info

2) Friday (June 26): The Vaudevillionaires of Luna Park
Doors at 9PM, Show at 10PM ($15 Advanced/$20 Door (Tickets at http://tiny.cc/luna515))

An ode to Luna Park the early 20th Century amusement park, the second park to have been established at Coney Island. Presented by burlesque queen Harvest Moon, Vaudevillionaires is not just any ordinary burlesque show– it’s aerial, it’s circus, it’s vaudeville and it’s the best of old time Coney Island. Expect women in birdcages, acrobatics, aerialists, song, dance, debauchery–the works!
More info

3) Saturday (June 27): Floating Kabarette
Doors at 8PM, Show at 9PM ($10 includes drink with admission)

Hilarious Swedish hosts Olga and Bjorn are returning and we’ll have our resident aerialist Lisa Natoli, dancers Jenny Rocha and Her Painted Ladies, oral acrobat Jan Manke (yes, oral acrobat), and absolutely FREE haircuts by our resident hairstylist Lynsey.
More info

All at Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main Street, Dumbo Brooklyn, NY 11201

ILLUSTRATION will be this month’s theme. Speakers include artist Molly Crabapple, creator of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School, a cabaret-life-drawing class with 57 branches around the world; New Yorker cartoonist and editor of the magazine’s comedy blog Farley Katz; and Josh Neufeld, author of graphic novels A Few Perfect Hours and the widely acclaimed A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, to be published by Pantheon this fall.

Event Details:
JLA Studios (Google Maps, Outside.In)
63 Pearl St (between Water St. and Front St.), Brooklyn, NY 11201
[Next to the F train. Close to the A,C. Accessible by the 2,3].

Doors open at 7:00.
Event starts at 7:30.
FREE!
more info: gelfmagazine.com/gelflog/archives/nonmotivational.php

(Photo: Yumi Janairo Roth, Paleta: Pallet (Made in Philippines) (2005), 3 pallets (46×40x6)

According to Smack Mellon’s press release, the title of the group exhibit, Beauty Underfoot comes from John Cage— apropos of Robert Rauschenberg, “Beauty is now underfoot wherever we take the trouble to look.” This aesthetic is precisely followed by Jeanne Gerrity, curator.

Yumi Janairo Roth recontextualizes shipping pallets, objects so commonplace, so functional— they are almost invisible. Roth, however, builds them herself, and then embellishes them with hand carved designs, or inlays them with mother-of-pearl. Much of the technique she employs in Paleta: Pallet (Made in the U.S.A.), she learned while participating in a residency in the Philippines. Not rough hewn and thrown out with the trash; the pallets, in this exhibit, are defiantly elegant.

In Charwei Tsai’s video installation, a fish, projected on an artificial beach of the gallery floor, struggles to breathe, as the artist paints calligraphy on its belly. There is a tension created by the undeniable beauty of the image— the sand sparkles; crystalline and pure. It’s hauntingly ephemeral. This is contrasted with the fish; desperate to escape. It seems to be trying to move off the page.

Hood, by Fawad Khan, is the result of his first foray into integrating digital media and wall painting. His large scale painting of a car, cartoonish and joyful, shimmies and shakes with real time animation. Yet for all its playfulness, there is a not quite hidden malice, something tricky and deceitful: this could blow up in your face at any time.

All of the work in this exhibit also seems to reference, in spirit, the much larger exhibit at The New Museum, Generational:Younger Than Jesus— artists responding to a culture that is beset and besieged by images, by content. A world exploding with information. The work is performative, narrative. It is brash. Fearless. While not every piece in Beauty Underfoot succeeds— every voice is clear.

The exhibit runs from June 20th to August 2nd, 2009.

Smack Mellon
92 Plymouth Street (@ Washington St), Brooklyn, NY 11201
Gallery hours are Wednesday-Sunday, 12-6pm.

On Thursday, June 25, Digital DUMBO is having their sixth event at Water Street Lounge (66 Water Street) from 6:00 - 8:00pm. Digital DUMBO was created with the thought of bringing together the digital minds of DUMBO to connect, network and share ideas.

This month, DumboNYC is sponsoring a drink round (or two). One of the goals in maintaining a blog for Dumbo is to support and highlight local entrepreneurs, small businesses, and non-profits, and we think this sponsorship supports that. Working in the tech area ourselves for our day job, it’s great to see Digital Dumbo grow. It takes people with courage to create and build businesses, but to see people with passion to create successful businesses in Dumbo is inspiring.

This month’s presenter include presentations by Dumbo-based media company Sawhorse Media (twitter.com/sawhorse).

Past presenters include Dumbo based media people from Freedom + Partners (from the 5th event), HUGE (David Skokna (founder, partner and creative director from the 4th event), drop.io (3rd event), Carrot Creative, outside.in, and The Jar Group.

What: Digital DUMBO Drinks #6
When: Thursday, June 25, 2009 from 6:00 PM - 8:00 pm
Where: Water Street Lounge (downstairs at 66 Water Street)
For more information on Digital DUMBO and RSVP, go to digitaldumbodrinks.eventbrite.com and follow them on Twitter @digitaldumbo. Follow us on Twitter @DumboNYC. See you there!