Dumbo, Brooklyn, What Noir Looks Like Polished
New York Times
Neighborhood lore, at least as related by an oft-cited local history, has it that “Dumbo,” an acronym for Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass, was coined in the late 1970s by a few artists hoping that an odd name would deter development.
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