DUMBO
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- proper noun
- /ˈdʌmboʊ/
- Last year, I went on a press trip to learn more about Dumbo, Brooklyn, and encountered Mark Thompson from The Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory, whose story I wrote about here.
- DUMBO, Brooklyn
- Street, DUMBO
- en DUMBO
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Watch on YouTubeI met up with Greg at a coffee shop in Dumbo.
- I met up with Greg at a coffee shop in Dumbo.
- And so eventually I lucked up on finding pre construction condominiums in a place called Dumbo down under the Manhattan Bridge overpass.
- Times Square, Dumbo, taxis, traffic and so on.
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As some of you may already know, our lovely DUMBO store is not so lovely right now.
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Thanks to both friends and perfect strangers (though, now friends) who have come by to help us clean up at the DUMBO shop.
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Now we're in Dumbo, you can see the Manhattan Bridge just there.
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And we'll need your support: please help our recovery by attending an event or doing your holiday shopping in Dumbo.
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The DUMBO BID has set up a "Help DUMBO Rebuild" fund for art spaces and businesses (like One Girl Cookies) affected by Hurricane Sandy.
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In Brooklyn, south of Williamsburg and into Dumbo, Monday morning dawned calm, with a few gusts of powerful wind.
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Since the opening day and continuing into their new cafe in Dumbo, Dawn and Dave believe in using the finest ingredients available and baking everything from scratch.
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177 Concord, a new condo conversion adjacent to Dumbo in downtown Brooklyn, was formerly an old party favor warehouse/factory.
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Etsy is headquartered in Brooklyn's DUMBO neighborhood, across the East River from Manhattan.
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A paramedic buddy of mine in DUMBO gave me a call, knowing I was looking.
Idioms
Surface Forms
Morphology
DUMBO = D + U + M + B + O
As a place-name acronym, the letters themselves do not allow a learner to infer the neighborhood meaning without knowing the specialized expansion and local usage.
Etymology
DUMBO is a modern short name formed from the first letters of Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass, so it points to the area right under the bridge and now means the Brooklyn neighborhood known for old warehouses, art spaces, and the waterfront.