Many are conversions, like 1 Main Street, a 1914 clock tower-topped structure that was originally a can factory and, later, state offices. Tony Cenicola/The New York Timesįor those looking to buy, condos are the only option. 2L | A one-bedroom, two-bathroom condo, with a sunken living room and a home office currently used as a sleeping area, listed for $2.29 million. Settling east of the Manhattan Bridge, where tourist traffic is lighter, also helps.ġ MAIN STREET, No. And a large power plant hugs the shore along John Street.Īs for that racket, residents say extra-thick windows usually do the trick. barbed wire twists across a fence near Plymouth Street a city maintenance shop adorned with oversized wrenches can be found on Adams Street. And with many of the basic amenities - grocery stores, hardware stores, pharmacies, wine shops, art galleries and coffee shops - nearby, Dumbo offers few reasons to leave, they say.Īlthough the paint, steel wool, and coffee companies that dominated life here at the turn of the 20th century may be long gone, Dumbo still has some rough edges. Some residents describe it as an island, cut off from points south by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.īut far from being marooned, most feel privileged to be part of one of the borough’s most exclusive enclaves. “It’s just crazy beautiful.”ĭumbo - an acronym for “down under the Manhattan Bridge overpass” - sits between the Brooklyn Bridge, Bridge Street, York Street and the East River. Harris of her regular three-mile jogs through the park, to Cobble Hill and back. “I’m nowhere near a car when I go running there,” said Ms. The busy section that threads through Dumbo includes a salt marsh, pine trees, a pebbly beach, a playground and a climbing wall, and a 48-horse, two-chariot carousel that revolves to bouncy organ music (tickets: $2). Harris said, is something much newer: Brooklyn Bridge Park. While Dumbo has a preserved-in-amber feeling - most buildings have landmark status, courtesy of two historic districts - what really helps set the place apart, Ms. The apartment, which her partner, Ray Dorado, an attorney, bought in 2011 for about $1.5 million, might today fetch $2.2 million, based on local sales, she said. Harris left Dumbo for a few years, then made her way back in 2015, to a two-bedroom, two-bathroom condo in a 1908 building where teakettles once were manufactured. In 2005, in search of more space for her family, she relocated from neighboring Brooklyn Heights, buying a three-bedroom duplex in a onetime soap factory for $930,000. Harris, 52, said she had to close her 11-year-old studio in 2017 because the rent had more than doubled. “Man, has it changed a lot here,” said Lawson Harris, a Pilates instructor who lives in the neighborhood. Metal shutters frame its arched windows, and nicked wood columns support the interior. In 2016, after an elegant restoration, a coffee warehouse that had been vacant since the 1960s became Empire Stores, a shopping mall, though not the typical suburban variety. Other arrivals have filled buildings that sat empty for decades.
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