“West of FIrst Avenue DOwntown” “Twin Cities Apartment Developers Offer Amenities for Fido.” —Star Tribune (2/7/14) Manhattan has Soho — short for, “SOuth of HOuston Street” (not to mention Tribeca, Nolita, etc.). There’s the “Dumbo” neighborhood in Brooklyn (“DOwn Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass”). Even Denver has a hip, “truncated/acronym” neighborhood: “LoDo,” short for LOwer DOwntown....Read More
DUMBO, Pizza Bars, and Bratwurst In Minnesota, fashionable restaurants tout their delicacies from far away: fresh Alaskan salmon, Washington cherries, etc. So, walking past one of the trendiest-looking bistros in Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood (“Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass”) earlier this week, I noted that the top item on the chalkboard display was “Minnesota Bratwurst.”...Read More
