September 28, 2004: DUMBO 3
Back in the late 1980s, there was a restaurant in DUMBO called The Lighthouse- or something similar. It was right at the foot of Main Street, under the Manhattan Bridge. The Lighthouse was a popular place to have Bar and Bat Mitzvah receptions, so in 1989 I was probably there nine or ten times. Each and every time, we'd get hopped up on Bar Mitzvah food, shirley temples, and helium, and go out and explore the streets around the restaurant. In those days it was pretty barren- all shuttered-up warehouses and untended lots. I was thirteen, approximately- I never could have guessed how much that little area would change in fifteen years. [Unrelated: Gothamist.com and Bluejake.com are parting ways, and going to live on separate servers. This should result in better performance for both sites, but most likely will produce some DNS-related outages over the next two days. See you on the other side!]
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Hey Jake, I think you accidentally slipped in a photo of your apartment, third from the end.
Lovely, lovely, lovely photos. I am out of NYC for a few months, and I keep coming back to your site to images of home. Of course, they fuel even more homesickness.
LOVE this series.
2nd from the top--pure gold! Took a second to realize what the pretty shadows were actually of, but that just made it twice as cool.
I love that wall in Dumbo. And this one, even though it is kind of fake.
Jake, the photos are just better and better. I don't think I've ever seen that exact orange against that exact blue.
I visited DUMBO the other weekend (or was it the other one?) and found it delightfully transformed and not as damaged by the condo-builders as I had expected. I think that patch of land is one of the most uniquely interesting places on earth, sandwhiched between two brides, earth and sky, water and land, housing and homes, money and mobs.
#2, #3, #5 are fantastic. the textures! the colors!
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