The carousel renovated by Jane Walentas, wife of the man who is responsible for Dumbo as we know it in 2006, debuted at the Dumbo Art Under the Bridge Festival this weekend. It is a special project that has been long in the making. “Jane’s Carousel,” as they are calling it, was built in 1922 by the Philadelphia Toboggan Company and purchased in 1984 by the Walentases at an auction of a defunct Ohio amusement park. It was originally intended for Brooklyn Bridge Park, but was never given a place there.

Ms. Walentas worked on-and-off on restoring it for nearly two decades and, ultimately, she and her husband have done what two people who own a huge part of a neighborhood can do: they have taken one of their buildings and set the up the carousel in it. No one can ride it because it is said to be too close to the walls of the building (which is the original site of the Smack Mellon Gallery). A handout available over the weekend says more than once that the intended home of the carousel is still Brooklyn Bridge Park.

“Hopefully,” Ms. Walentas writes, “someday the Carousel will be housed in a wonderful new Carousel Pavilion set in the park on the East River….Completing this Carousel, giving it to the City & State and riding on it in the Park has been my wish and my passion…”

Understood?

Dumbo:

• 10th Annual Dumbo Arts Fest Photoset [gopstar/flickr]
• Dumbo Art Under the Bridge 2006 Festival Photoset [rsguskind/flickr]
• Dumbo Arts Festival in Pictures [A Brooklyn Life]
• Dumbo [Brit in Brooklyn]
• Dumbo Links [Dumbo NYC]
• Dumbo Art Festival Keeps Benches Warm [Gothamist]
• Dumbo Arts Festival [Brooklyn Enthusiast]

Not Dumbo:

• Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Part I [boroughed]
• A Day in the Life of Greenpoint [newyorkshitty]
• Preservation, Two Ways [Landmark This!]
• Perfect Fall Day in Brooklyn [seriously excited!]
• K-Dog Gets Pretty [Across the Park]
• Gowanus Articles Work from Vast Palette [24/7-Courier Life]
• Broken Angel Owner May Be Ordered Out [NYDN]
• The Manhattan Project aka Flatbush Avenue Redo [NYPost]

And, Of Course, Another Bit of NYC & Cultural History Lost:

• Patti Smith Brings Down the Curtain at CBGB [NYT]
• The Night Music Died [NYDN]

Here’s a vid of Williamsburg, featuring the (being demolished) Old Dutch Mustard factory, the (being renovated to luxe condos) Mill Building and the (unlandmarked and to be seriously altered) Austin Nichols warehouse at 184 Kent. Music from Basement Jaxx. Click on this link or just hit the embed.

This one came to us via an e-mail from the author, inviting us to download a PDF of his book, Coney Island. The book is a number of years old, but we’re suckers for anything Coney, so clicked and looked and found a book that has some very interesting stories and reflections and photos. So, if you’re interested in Coney, it’s absolutely worth a look. (Apologies if we’re bringing you old news, but we hadn’t run across this before.)

The writer is someone named Professor Solomon whose gotten some notice as a “finder of lost objects” and has published a number of books via Penguin and others. (His first name, by the way, is Steve, although we only figured this out by reading the caption on the photo above of him on the boardwalk. Other than that, Professor is his self-given title and identity. It’s entirely fitting for a 152-page book on Coney Island.)

There are also a number of interesting old photos in the book, as you can see by a couple we’ve taken and posted here, and we’ve never seen a number of them before. (Note the still-operating parachute jump in the photo of the author at the top.)

You can find the book by clicking over to his website and then, clicking for the download. (We’re not going to include the direct link, because clicking it opens a 45 meg PDF download, and possible tragedy if you’re operating on a creaky old system or with a dial-up.)

So, if you dig Coney Island and you haven’t come across the this book in perusing the other volumes of Coney Island history and image’s, this one, which has an original publication date of 1999 is definitely worth a download.

Thanks for the e-mail, Professor.

• Manhattan Bridge Jam [NYDN]
• Rare Bone Cancer Cluster Near Greenpoint Oil Spill [NYPost]
• Giant Squids and Mermaids in Manhattan and Brighton Beach [Runs Brooklyn]
• Yellow Tree [A Test of Will]
• Bodega Cats [Clinton Hill Blog]
• Dumba at the Under the Bridge Festival [Brooklyn Ramblings]
• Gleason’s Gym in Dumbo [NYT]
• Carroll Street Artistry [I’m Seeing Green]
• Gross or Great? Deep Fried Pizza at Atlantic Chip Shop [Slice]
• Brooklyn Reading Works Coming on Thursday [OTBKB]
• The Sun is Out and I Want Some (in Far Rockaway) [Brit in Brooklyn]
• Selling in the Village to Find a Bigger Place in Brooklyn [NYT]

Here’s the return of our favorite weekly feature highlighting a Brooklyn “Missed Connection” on Craigslist that in some way touches us (funny, weird, scary, sad, poignant, whacked, etc.). We noted back-to-back posting from the Hoyt-Schemerhorn platform this week. We present our favorite and Honorable Mention the other:

Hoyt-Schemerhorn platform. you black hair with pinkish makeup – m4w
ive seen you on the platform between the g and the a-c-e in the morning. youre slim, about 5’6 with black choppy hair and angle cut in the back, with perfectly done makeup, with a pinkish shadow an dark eyes. youre kinda mysterious. i know we’ve looked at each other. even sttod next to each other. im probably not your type, and a bit too old, but next time ill talk to you. at which point you’ll look at me in disgust and walk away. but i still will think youre the prettiest one on the train.

So much you can read into it. So many typos.

Honorable Mention:
Hoyt Schemerhorn – Across The Tracks – m4w

Well, one of the Top Ten Brooklyn Mysteries has been solved. If you ever cross the Brooklyn Bridge, you probably wonder why police cars are sitting there, blocking one lane and sometimes causing epic traffic jams. We knew that it was some sort of security operation, but never had much detail beyond that. Now we know: They’re there, apparently, because there are no security cameras.

From today’s Daily News:

Mayor Bloomberg sympathized with a frustrated Brooklyn Bridge commuter yesterday, but police officials say squad cars will stay on the Brooklyn Bridge during rush hour until a new security plan is ready.

“When I go across the bridge, I get as annoyed as you do,” Bloomberg told a caller to his radio show.

But Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly noted the bridge has long been a terrorism target, and said the cars will stay until new cameras can be installed.

“We’re very much aware of the problem, doing everything we can to expedite the installation of cameras there,” Kelly said.

All well and good, but mindboggling in what it implies. The police cars have been there for nearly five years, and we have to ask: How long does it take to hire someone to install some freaking security cameras? What kind of cameras, exactly, is the city trying to install? And, how many more years will it take to “expedite” the solution? Truly, one can’t make up stuff like this.

We find rants about Park Slope kids and parenting, and all the related subjects, oddly compelling. And so it with the following nugget, called Park Slope: AKA “The Hatchery” from a blog called Hello Portland from NYC. Here it is:

I don’t know how they do it.

Five moms with babies all within the ages of one month to three in one place, my place, The Red Horse. Someone needs to open a coffee house, a big place, called “The Hatchery”. Provide lots of decaf coffee, pickles, chocolate, complimentary burping clothes, changing tables, play space and toys for the tots. There’s no need for tables or window counters with bar stools because this is not the place for studying, reading or writing. It is a place for MOMs and DADs. No one admitted without a child.

I could complain, or I could make money off of them. I’m sitting next to the counter with community fliers wondering why there’s nothing here with my name, number and in big letters: GET YOUR POST-BABY BODY BACK IN SHAPE WITH YOGA. Your space, your schedule, your needs.

I guess I better get to work.

A cafe strictly for moms, dads and kids in the Slope. Could work. Next up: Another Park Slope breast feeding incident.

Pictures:

• Tree Turning in Prospect Park [atomische/flickr]
• Hair Cove [bluejake]
• Old Dutch Gets the Big D [justiNYC]
• Under [Lex’s Folly]
• Dressy Brooklyn Cat [callalillie]
• Cool Carroll Gardens Halloween Slideshow [daltonrooney/flickr]
• No Words/Daily Pix [Hugh Crawford/OTBKB]
• Brooklyn Botanic Garden [Joe’s NYC]
• Coney Close Up [newington/flickr]
• Abandoned Brooklyn Building [justiNYC]
• Carroll Gardens in Early Evening [seriously excited!]
• Day One of Dumbo Art Under the Bridge Festival [Dumbo NYC]

Not Pictures:

• Michael Sandy, Victim of Plumb Beach Hate Crime, Dies [NYT]
• This Weekend in Brooklyn [Brooklyn Record]
• More Cities Build Mega-Project Around Arenas [Wall Street Journal in No Land Grab]
• Park Slope Civic Council Opposes Atlantic Yards in Current Form [AYR]
• Chock Full of Nuts Coming to Seventh Avenue [OTBKB]
• City Selling Williamsburg and Cobble Hill Firehouses [Brownstoner]
• Truly Expensive Brooklyn Boutiques [Brooklyn Record]

So, Coney Island may be done for the season, the rides now surrounded by fences and “Attack Dog” signs, but Halloween means Creep Show at the Freak Show, which is billed as “one of the best haunted tours in all of New York City. Audience members are greeted by live entertainment and taken on a half-hour guided tour featuring a frightening array of ghosts and ghouls.”

The Creep Show (here is where we would have put the snarky comment about how it’s not affiliated with any of the major developers operating in Brooklyn, if we were in a bad mood) is going on at Sideshows by the Seashore Theater, which is at the corner of Surf Avenue and West 12th Street. Nice post about the Creep Show over at Kinetic Carnival too.

It started yesterday, Friday the 13th, and runs Oct. 14, 15, 20, 21, 22 and the entire week of October 25-31, with shows continuously from 7 PM to 11 PM. The price is $8 adults and $5 for kids under 12, and truth in advertising requires us to say we’ve never been, but how could you go wrong?

• Final Nails in Gowanus Coffins?
• Haunted Houses of Clinton Hill
• How Do You Sell Williamsburg to Non-Hipsters?
• Evidence That Brooklyn’s Still Brooklyn, Yo
• Williamsburg Neighbors: 50% More Warmth in October
• Dumbo Artists Threatened by Babies Lawyers
• Toll Brothers Williamsburg Northside Piers’ Glassy Look
• Williamsburg’s Old Dutch Mustard Building Being Demolished

This is a glimpse inside one of Coney Island’s remaining landmarks, an old bank building at W. 12th Street and Surf Avenue. It has had a Thor Equities “For Lease” sign affixed to its side for at least a year and is within the footprint of Thor’s Coney redevelopment area. Coney Island fixture Dick Zigun had expressed interest in renting the space from Thor as a new location for the Coney Island Museum, whose lease will be up soon, but had gotten a lukewarm reaction from the developer. The Museum’s current home on Surf Ave. currently has a “for sale” affixed to it.

We got off this shot (through the window) before someone approached us and barked at us to stop shooting. He was very large and it was late and we were tired and not in the mood to argue. You can catch other photos of the interior posted by another photog on flickr here and here.

We’re almost afraid that today is Friday the Thirteenth, given the kind of week it’s already been.

Of course, there was the awful plane crash was on the Upper East Side, but Brooklyn had its own share of little mishaps and awfulness to color the second week of October, including the little construction boo-boo at the Ikea site that injured two of the workers vandalizing giving the Red Hook waterfront its big blue-and-yellow box makeover. Can you say, bye-bye Graving Dock? Then, of course, there was the near conflagration at Broken Angel in Clinton Hill that the owner said was the result of a “freak accident,” which in turn, has led to other problems with the city that threaten the place more than the fire probably did.

Our personal favorite horror was our own discovery that Steiner Equities–better known as Steiner Studios–is actually tearing down the Old Dutch Mustard factory in Williamsburg. And, yes, we’re ticked of they’re knocking down a Williamsburg landmark. We did up a long-ish Brookvid about Old Dutch, that also shows the Mill Building, 184 Kent and some other scenery. You can head over to youtube to check it out. or wait for us to post it on on GL tomorrow. Steiner’s impact isn’t limited to Williamsburg. As it turns out, a crane company that labored for two years at Ground Zero is going to get evicted from the Brooklyn Navy Yard (where they really used to build ships) in order to make way for a film studio. The city, meanwhile, has come up with a solution for the fire houses it closed, like the “People’s Fire House” in Williamsburg: Sell them to developers!

We weren’t lacking for human ugliness either, what with the awful hate crime in Plumb Beach, which also reminded us that that particular spot has some fairly unsavory things going on regularly. Of course, the NYPD supplied us with a different troubling issue by racially profiling blacks at the Seventh Avenue station in Park Slope, in an apparent response to an increase in crime there. We’re guessing that story won’t vanish right away. In other subway fun, it turns out that some Pratt students planted fake bombs on the subway as part of a class project. Damn. Like we need to be reminded that people can kill us on our commute.

No profiling in caucasian Dyker Heights, though, where they handed out so many sanitation tickets that people almost started a garbage rebellion.

Speaking of racism and discrimination, the National Fair Housing Alliance accused Corcoran of engaging in blatant discriminatory sales practices. They even are said to have literally drawn red lines on a map to do a kind of reverse redlining for white yuppie buyers. While that kind of thing makes us wish litigation, prosecution and ruin on the perpetrators, we had to laugh at how Williamsburg–and, specifically, the North8 Condo–is now being marketed to “happy white people with oversized heads.” Even Corcoran agents wouldn’t need to show anyone a “gentrification map” of Williamsburg. It’s got a bull’s eye painted on it.

Speaking of significant change, the proposals for the Coney Island Aquarium makeover continue generating comment and reviews. You can even take a Brooklyn Papers poll and vote for your favorite if you want to chime in. So far, no one’s dumped on the aquarium designs the way that Paul Goldberger, in effect, said that Frank Gehry’s Atlantic Yards design sucks. Although some have taken issue with the Brooklyn Paper‘s suggestive cover photo of new Park Slope resident Maggie Gyllenhaal, leading to an apology.

And, finally, our favorite New York public official distinguished himself by holding forth on the merits of the aforementioned Brooklyn project. Next week, you can tell them what you think by taking a poll eating well.

Chow down, readers.

The other day we related how Gowanus was the “meat” in an “awesome neighborhood sandwich” and how a real estate agent was even chatting up the Big G as a cool place to park your boat. Well, today, our friends at Dumbo NYC email to point out that the Brooklyn Daily Eagle ran an item about canoeing and other recreational uses on the canal. Specifically:

People used to say they were crazy, but the Gowanus Dredgers are having the last laugh: Owen Foote, treasurer of the canoe club, says the resurgence of recreational use of the Gowanus Canal and other waterways is exactly what the city needs.

Cobble Hill resident Judith Albert says, “I have four kids, so we have to take out two canoes and we do it every couple of weeks. You get such a different impression going under the bridges and having traffic go over you.”

Just this weekend, we saw people out canoeing the Big G as part of Open House New York. Dumbo NYC says:

Sounds like Gowanus Canal might be the next boat launch in NYC, like the kayak launch area in Dumbo or the Hudson River boat launches.

We say, amen to all three, because none can happen quickly enough. While we understand the competition between industrial use of the Gowanus and any recreational use, we think both can be handled comfortably and we have previously welcomed the announcement of the creation of a Gowanus Canal Conservancy to act as the patron of our favorite body of water in South Brooklyn.

Related Post:
Gowanus Goes Green

Friday the 13th-ish:

• Dealing with Roaches in Your Dishwasher [Apartment Therapy]
• Haunted House of the Day [Clinton Hill Blog]
• Creep Show at the Freak Show [Kinetic Carnival]

The Rest of the Stories:

• Planning Chair Burdens Claims Jane Jacobs Mantle, Tosses It for Atlantic Yards [AYR]
• Municipal Arts Society Email Blast on Brooklyn Speaks [No Land Grab]
• Footprints Gallery Show Evokes Prospect Heights [AYR]
• Dumbo Condos Affected by 421-a Tax Program [Dumbo NYC]
• State Renaissance Court: Not a Small Building [Brownstoner]
• Brooklyn Papers Apologizes for Lewd-ish Pic [OTBKB]
• Brooklyn Boutiques and the White People That Shop in Them [Gawker]
• Calls for Investigation in Park Slope Profiling Case [NYPost]
• New Chef at Raga on Smith Street? [Brooklyn Record]
• On the Prowl With Brooklyn’s Cat Lady [Brooklyn Papers]
• Buddhism in PLG [Across the Park]
• Hurtful Clarity at Court Street/Borough Hall Station [Callalillie]
• “Then She Found Me” Shooting in Brooklyn [Brooklyn Film Blog]
• Cool Vid of Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1958 [Brownstoner]
• Crane Company May Get Boot From Brooklyn Navy Yard [NYDN]

We were wandering around and found this really wonderful blog entry about the Empty Vessel Project on the Gowanus Canal. If you know Gowanus, you probably know the Empty Vessel Project, a World War II rescue boat that is moored at the foot of First Street and serves as a community and performance space. Recently, it has been threatened with having to move. The boat is still there, but we haven’t heard from the good people that run EVP in a few weeks. We also noted that an Open House New York event scheduled for the boat was cancelled.

In any case, the item was posted on a new blog called LiteraDog, which is produced by writer Amy Holman, who is now a Gowanus resident:

At the end of June when I had not yet found a new apartment for my ancient dog and me to inhabit and was still living in the Smith Street apartment with the gutted bathroom owned by blase slumlords, I gave a poetry reading on a World War II rescue boat to the best audience ever. There it is, left, on a sunny day in July on the Gowanus Canal and 1st Street. I was standing on the Carroll Street bridge–the oldest retractile bridge in the country–to take this photo of The Empty Vessel Project, a new community arts organization. Empty because it has no engine, certainly not because it has no community. Not a single person in my audience that night–it was also the audience of another poet and two singer/songwriters–lived in Carroll Gardens or anywhere close. I’m guessing thirty people. This is significant to the poets out there reading in bars and cafes and bookstores to imaginary throngs. It was a warm, engaged audience. There was vodka of every infusion available for a few bucks, and there was the after-party at a bar that used to be a mafia social club. I was recommended to the curators, Chris and Sean, by my friend, Elena Alexander, who had read her poetry two weeks before. The other poet/raconteur had a day job driving The Circle Line, as did a fiction writing audience member. That’s how you get an audience for a poetry reading on a boat. I thought it would be my swan song to the neighborhood but the very next week I found the studio with big kitchen a few blocks away from the empty vessel. A lark, not a swan.

So, it looks like it is still there at 1st Street and the Canal, but actually, it’s been moved to private property. Empty Vessel Project needs new docking space on the Gowanus or in Red Hook. I think it should stay on the Gowanus, especially near where it was, next to that Silo with the artist studios. The vessel is now being used as an art studio for Bara Diokhane, a painter from Senegal, who is working on a project that makes connection to the boat people who leave Senegal because of economic opportunities in Spain. This residency is through a partnership with Free Dimensional.

Get yourself over to the web site, at least, and the boat, at best. Be sure to include vessel when you type in the web address, or else you will reach a Christian Mission targeting teens with rock & roll. But here is the boat: www.emptyvesselproject.org.

Related Post:

Historic Gowanus Boat Seeks Friend With Connections

Everybody digs a Brooklyn raccoon, right? Wrong. There’s a heated discussion over at the Park Slope Forum about what pests they can be. A few people even say they have nasty Brooklyn raccoons that growl, charge and try to bite. (Insert Bensonhurst raccoon wisecrack here.) The original poster writes:

Ive been feeding this cat on my fire escape, and today i spotted what i thought was a rather large cat munching on cat food, and upon closer look, was a racoon!!!

I’m on the the third floor, with my kitchen window facing all of the backyards on my block.

The raccoon has been eating up the food all week and is bound to return, so is there a number or dept i can call to try to get rid of it? 311?

And there was this response, among the dozens (still being posted):

I actually would not poison on animal (but boy, I do know how to get you guys pissed off. I think I could like being a troll). This particular raccoon, I do believe is rabid and it needs to be removed (having had to deal with rabies upstate before, I know that you are allowed to destroy an animal that is a danger to yourself or your property. We actually had to shoot a raccoon before and the test did come back positive for rabies so I am familiar with what it looks like). I was really frustrated because I spent 2.5 hours on the phone being bounced from one city agency to another to another when all I wanted was someone from public health to a. tell me if the rabies has spread from Queens to Brooklyn yet, b. find out if they can drop some vaccine packs in the park and/or the cemetary and c. how to remove this raccoon and have it destroyed and tested. I never got a straight answer, I got transferred and transferred. I went to my city councilperson’s office and he dealt with it and also got the run around. Don’t you think SOMEONE would be concerned about a possible rabid animal near a city park that has a lot of rodents and stray cats?

This raccoon has chased my neighbor twice and tried to bite him. Got into the house and went after another neighbor(Raccoons get into houses but they usually growl and leave, they don’t turn and charge). Tried to get into our house and then would not leave when we banged pots and pans to chase it away last night. Finally, we have a lot of stray unvaccinated cats in the neighborhood.

Okay, so Rocky has anger (and, possibly, rabies) issues. Us? We still like them. Now, about the gazillion rats running around Brooklyn…

We don’t often write about the press releases that land in our Gowanus Lounge Inbox from the Department of Transportation, but the one that just arrived is enough to make anybody that sometimes crosses the East River by anything but subway swallow hard:

The New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) announced that beginning Sunday, October 15, the lower roadway of the Manhattan Bridge will be closed for the next year. During these twelve months all three lanes of the lower roadway will undergo a complete rehabilitation.

While the upper level of the Manhattan Bridge will remain open, DOT recommends that motorists use an alternate route to cross the East River during this closure. During the rehabilitation there will be no access to the lower roadway from either end of the bridge. All traffic will be directed to the upper roadways where two lanes will be maintained in both directions at all times. Pedestrians and bicyclists will share access along the Manhattan Bridge’s South walkway since the North bikeway will be closed. New York City Transit service on the bridge will not be affected. To help distribute traffic amongst the other East River crossings, the North Outer Roadway on the Williamsburg Bridge will be open to truck traffic.

During the rehabilitation there will be no access to the lower roadway from either end of the bridge. All traffic will be directed to the upper roadways where two lanes will be maintained in both directions at all times. Pedestrians and bicyclists will share access along the Manhattan Bridge’s South walkway since the North bikeway will be closed. New York City Transit service on the bridge will not be affected. To help distribute traffic amongst the other East River crossings, the North Outer Roadway on the Williamsburg Bridge will be open to truck traffic.

Should give the people moving into the J Condo in Dumbo some excellent crawling traffic to watch. More fun details over at DOT’s website.

So, like, you’re hungry and want your greens and don’t feel like hitting the Park Slope Food Coop or Fairway or the friendly spot on the corner. What to do? Go to Prospect Park and forage. In doing our daily check of Chowhound we came across the following item, which we reproduce in its entirety, only taking credit for our ability to copy and paste:

This past Sunday, I went on a foraging walking tour of Prospect Park with “Wildman” Steve Brill, whose website lists walking tours all over NYC and the surrounding area (wildmanstevebrill.com). It was pretty wild to be pulling chickweed off the ground and chomping on it, not to mention the hawthorne berries, the black walnuts, the burdock root, the garlic mustard, and on and on. It adds a whole new meaning to the phrase, “eating locally.” Anyway, the food was good! Some of the greens reminded me a lot of what I pay $4/quarter lb. at the farmers’ market 🙂 I made a wild salad the next night, with a little red lettuce, radishes, and pickled eggplant, which made for a great, sharp, fresh salad.

We will refrain from comment, as there are many to be found already with the original item. The photo above, which was posted by applesister on flickr, who did the Chowhound post, is of the resulting salad.

Both nabes have changed radically in the decade these events have been taking place, so much so that there is concern that the community of artists in Dumbo is rapidly diminishing because of the influx of million-dollar condo buyers and offices. The Gowanus artists population is not as threatened. Yet. A decade ago there were 15 artists on the studio tour; today there are more than 120.

In any case, the Dumbo Festival starts Friday evening and includes a huge number of performances, street theater and open artists’ studios. The website for the event is here at the Dumbo Arts Center’s website and the full schedule is on this page of the site. “Project Glow,” with night illuminations in Brooklyn Bridge Park should be especially cool. Dumbo NYC also have a nice item with links about the festival.

Next weekend, AGAST takes center stage. It offers open houses at a large number of artist’s studios and will run from 1-6PM both days. You can find the Gowanus Artists website here and a map of all the participating locations (some of which are actually in Park Slope and Carroll Gardens). Brooklyn Ramblings posted an item about AGAST yesterday, and thoughtfully included some links to some of the street art you can find around Gowanus.

Both events are excellent. We especially like all the outdoor performances and performance art that is part of the Dumbo Festival. (See above. You just don’t get the opportunity to shoot many photos like that.) They’re also reminders of what Brooklyn stands to lose if artists continue being gentrified out of nabes like Dumbo and Gowanus.