Theater Director: Dumbo's the New Tribeca
Speaking of Dumbo…Avant-garde theater director Robert Wilson is seeing shades of the Tribeca of yore in the Dumbo of today. Wilson recently signed a lease for gallery space at Two Trees Management’s 111 Front Street after getting booted from the Vestry Street loft he’d lived and worked in for 34 years. I do not like…
Speaking of Dumbo…Avant-garde theater director Robert Wilson is seeing shades of the Tribeca of yore in the Dumbo of today. Wilson recently signed a lease for gallery space at Two Trees Management’s 111 Front Street after getting booted from the Vestry Street loft he’d lived and worked in for 34 years. I do not like Soho so much anymore, Wilson says. Dumbo seems more interesting. It reminds me a little of Tribeca 30 years ago. Of course, there are some similarities between present-day Tribeca and Dumbo: Last year Forbes ranked the area covered by the former New York’s most expensive ZIP Code, and Dumbo is already Brooklyn’s priciest nabe, hardly a no-man’s land rife with bargains like Tribeca was in the mid-’70s. Nevertheless, think Wilson’s got a point?
Byrd Hoffman’s New Dumbo Nest [NY Mag]
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Fabio IS gay, 11:48. Where have you been?
sounds like alot of poor man’s biased hatred about dumbo to me. it is like a fat girl saying that model is too skinny, she should eat. or a bald guy saying fabio’s hair makes him gay. there’s always a down side isn’t there new yorkers? the comment about everything sucking was on point. this is nyc, the land of the vocal skeptic. don’t expect to hear anything overly nice or else people will listen with caution. never let your guard down new york or you will get eaten up alive. oh how i hate ny! i mean love.
from reading this, i think a point was missed. point is that if waterfront dumbo is expensive, then the williamsburg waterfront will end up more expensive because it has more advantages.
don’t think that that means that Dumbo sucks. more that williamsburg could be a good investment.
also, not sure that every time someone writes anything here that shows insight into a neighborhood we have to scream broker.
i’ve bought several places in brooklyn and have done tons of research and have opinions on brooklyn real estate that i discuss with people all the time. Frankly, I usually find I know more than the brokers i meet.
oops, IT wont last.
williamsburg square foot prices right now are substantially less than dumbo’s, but i think that i won’t last.
i do wish dumbo had gone more commercial rather than residential. the commercial photography community got displaced from chelsea years ago, and would’ve been nice to see it there.
i think some of the down side to Dumbo as a residential neighborhood wouldn’t have mattered to commercial tenants as much.
so true, brooklynlove.
i love dumbo.
seriously dislike bburg.
so much hate for this neighborhood – seems to me like wasted energy. better to spend your energy liking the places you like than hating the places you don’t like.
Twenty years ago I had a number of friends in Dumbo. They were all artists and most lived in loft spaces that were illegally occupied, although the landlords knew that the occupants were living in the spaces that were zoned commercial. This is part of the reason that the developers had such an easy time clearing out the place to create their bobo theme park.