Dumbo Community Workshop
June 10, 1999
Smack Mellon Studios
Brooklyn, NY
The DUMBO Community Workshop kicked
off Place in History's Dumbo
Development Box Project.
The Development Box Project was an interdisciplinary
initiative focused on the history and development of the Fulton
Ferry / DUMBO / Vinegar Hill area, Brooklyn's first port neighborhood.
As a first step towards examining this
history, Place in History organized a workshop with community
members, historians, urbanists and artists to discuss the
social, physical and economic history of the area.
In the aftermath of the workshop, Place
in History drew on participants' comments and our own research
to develop a series of slides, evoking the neighborhood's
landscape and history.
These slides were then displayed in ten
viewing boxes which Place in History mounted in Empire-Fulton
Ferry State Park, at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge.
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