Dumbo
DUMBO is a neighborhood that became a cliché and kept going anyway. Fifty-six restaurants, 27 coffee spots, the Manhattan Bridge overhead, and Equinox for the new residents. The River Café still exists. So does the authenticity question.
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About this Neighborhood
DUMBO is the most successful real estate story in Brooklyn and the least surprising neighborhood to find on any list. Fifty-six restaurants range from The River Café (old money, special occasion) to Pedro's (the kind of bar that predates the condos) to Vinegar Hill House, which arrived just as the neighborhood was deciding what it wanted to be. Coffee is the dominant commercial category: 27 outlets at 0.51 standard deviations above cohort average, including a dense café cluster that services the tech-worker tenants in the converted warehouses. Eleven grocery spots include Peas & Pickles, which sounds artisanal and is, and Gristedes, which is not. Thirteen parks are exceptional for the footprint — Max Family Garden, Walt Whitman Park, and the waterfront greenways provide access to the river that's become the primary amenity. Equinox and The Little Gym tell you who moved in over the last decade and is now raising children in a former factory. The Manhattan Bridge is always in the background, in every photo, whether you want it or not.
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