Dumbo Development Boxes
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Click on the photo to take a visual
tour of Dumbo past
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A Neighborhood History Collaboration
Empire - Fulton Ferry State Park
New Dock Street & East River, Brooklyn, NY
July 31 to September 6, 1999
The DUMBO Development Boxes 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.
Combining ideas and materials from a
Place in History-organized
community workshop with our own research, Place in History
developed a series of slides for display within our ten viewing
boxes. The slides evoke the neighborhood's ever-changing landscape
(from pastoral village to manufacturing center to upscale
residential enclave), its allure as the subject of grand development
schemes, and its strong and sometimes strained relationship
to Lower Manhattan, its sister neighborhood across the river.
Sponsors
Brooklyn Borough President's Office
Independence Community Foundation
New York Council for the Humanities
Partners
Marcia Hillis
Marcia Reiss
Marianna Koval
Gary Vanderputten
Louanne Smith
Robert Winkler
Arlene Winkler
Christopher Drago
Lorraine Walsh
Berit Fischer
Monique Denoncin
Anne Howland
Michele Convery
Jonas Kyle
Orin Brown
Adam Levinson
Carol Clark
Susan De Vreis
Smack Mellon Studios
Brooklyn Historical Society
Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition
Brooklyn Public Library
New York Public Library
New York City Municipal Archives
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