The Brooklyn Public Library announced on Thursday that it will open a temporary annex in DUMBO while the neighborhood’s new library is being built. The permanent library is expected to open in late 2020. The 1,600-square-foot outpost, which will be called BPL Annex, will be located at One John Street, a luxury condo, in a […]
Tourists come from far and wide to photograph the cobblestone streets of DUMBO and eat Sweetgreen under the Manhattan Bridge. But at least one NBA baller, the Brooklyn Eagle has learned (by reading this Architectural Digest article), also lives on these mean streets — despite playing for the New Orleans Pelicans and never having played for […]
DUMBO residents say they have had it with the noisy, fume-spewing ice cream trucks clogging their streets and sidewalks. This past summer, platoons of idling trucks jammed the cobblestone streets and sidewalks of the DUMBO and Fulton Ferry historic districts. They stayed for 10 hours or more every day, according to neighbors, with diesel motors […]