Washington Street
Bridge and Empire State.
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DUMBO is a waterfront neighbourhood in Brooklyn, New York City, between the Manhattan Bridge and the Brooklyn Bridge on the East River, about 5 km in a straight line south-east of Midtown Manhattan. Its name is short for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass. It began as an industrial district of warehouses and factories in the 19th and early 20th centuries. As industry left, artists moved into the empty lofts from the late 1970s, and the old buildings have since become flats, offices, shops and galleries. The area is now a protected historic district, and many streets keep their cobblestones and old rail tracks. Its most famous view is from Washington Street at Water Street, where red-brick warehouses frame a steel tower of the Manhattan Bridge, with the Empire State Building visible through its arch. Below the bridges, Brooklyn Bridge Park runs along the river with lawns, piers and wide views of the Manhattan skyline, and Jane's Carousel turns in a glass pavilion by the water. The neighbourhood is free to explore on foot. The Washington Street view is busiest at midday, early morning is quieter, and at sunset the riverside looks across to the lights of Lower Manhattan.
Bridge and Empire State.
On the river.
In a glass pavilion.
Washington Street, Brooklyn, New York, United States
Early morning, to avoid crowds.
By subway, or on foot over the Brooklyn Bridge.
