Winter Storm Stella scares selfie snappers away from everyone’s favorite street for photos in DUMBO

March 14, 2017 By Lore Croghan Brooklyn Daily Eagle

The corner of Washington and Water streets in DUMBO is normally a hot spot for selfie snappers — but Winter Storm Stella has scared everybody away. Eagle photos by Lore Croghan

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There’s no-bo-dy.

Winter Storm Stella has scared selfie snappers from their favorite spot in DUMBO, the intersection of Washington and Water Streets.

On Tuesday afternoon, the only person at the photographers’ scenic hot spot was a Brooklyn Eagle reporter who doesn’t know enough to come in out of the rain. Or in this case, sleet.

There was a lone pedestrian a block away, walking up the middle of the street, where a snow plow had cleared a path. That doesn’t count.

We don’t blame the selfie snappers from staying away. Standing out on the wind-whipped streets of waterfront Brooklyn today is fun only if you like having fistfuls of icey needles thrown at your face.

Also, it’s not worth risking frostbite to snap the scenery in nearby Brooklyn Bridge Park when the air is thick with sleet. Just look at our photos instead.

We took pix of the iconic Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan Bridge — and Jane’s Carousel, which wisely isn’t operating today.

It’s too bad that the snow changed to sleet in Brooklyn before dawn today. The white flakes that had been falling since just after midnight were so much prettier than the nasty stuff that’s now pelting us.

Before the sleet swooped in, the forecast had been for a foot or more of snow in New York City.

According to Weather.com, since 1869 only four March storms have dumped a foot or more of snow on New York City. The last one occurred in 1960 — the final year that Dwight D. Eisenhower was president.