DUMBO: The Making of a New York Neighborhood
Author Paul Goldberger
- Publish Date: April 06, 2021
- Format: Hardcover
- Category: Photography - Subjects & Themes - Regional
- Publisher: Rizzoli
- Trim Size: 9 x 12
- Pages: 224
- US Price: $65.00
- CDN Price: $85.00
- ISBN: 978-0-8478-6545-1
Reviews
"The current tony residence of a moneyed elite, Fulton Landing — as the Brooklyn waterfront between two bridges, the Brooklyn and the Manhattan, used to be called before Dumbo was dubbed the name of a Disney cartoon elephant (acronym for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) — looks to many today like a no-brainer for development, with its cobblestone streets and spectacular views of Manhattan. Hindsight, as they say, is 20/20. But as the noted architecture critic and Amagansett resident Paul Goldberger tells it in an elegant new coffee table tome, "Dumbo: The Making of a Neighborhood and the Rebirth of Brooklyn," even the most seasoned eyes did not see the potential. Through a decades-long mix of dreams, paperwork, battles, and persistence, David and Jane Walentas, joined by their son, Jed (after a stint working for Trump), made Dumbo what it is today. Mr. Goldberger tells the story, now legend, about how David, in a casual elevator chat with an artist in SoHo in the late 1970s, asked what's the next place. Well, the rest is, as they say, history." —EAST HAMPTON STAR
"Goldberger tells the extraordinary tale of the development (and rebirth) of Brooklyn’s gritty, industrial waterfront that turned Dumbo into one of the hottest, most in demand areas in NYC." —DANSPAPERS.COM
"Pulitzer-winning critic Paul Goldberger, who has penned books and countless columns on the architecture and the architects of New York City and the Hamptons, is out with a new book this month, DUMBO: The Making of a New York Neighborhood, which he says is more of a saga — with a lot of drama to it — than a conventional architecture book." —SOUTHAMPTON STAR