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luxury condominiums, and bars.
The redeveloped waterfront of
gardens and playgrounds offers
an unmissable view of Manhattan
from the Brooklyn Bridge Park.
St. Ann’s Warehouse, a revered
arts institution, occupies an old
Tobacco Warehouse on the
park’s edge.

4 New York
Transit Museum
Boerum Pl and Schermerhorn St,
Brooklyn Heights. Map 23 A3. Tel
Eagle Warehouse, an industrial structure that now contains apartments
(718) 694-1600. q Borough Hall, Jay
1 Brooklyn Bridge concerts at Bargemusic. The St-MetroTech. Open 10am–4pm Tue–
Fri, 11am–5pm Sat & Sun. & 7 8
original Grimaldi’s pizza recipe
See pp232–5. = ∑ nytransitmuseum.org
can be enjoyed at Juliana’s
Pizza, while Brooklyn Ice Cream Charting the evolution of
2 Fulton Ferry Factory (see pp228–9) offers the city’s public transit system,
District freshly-made ice creams in just this museum is housed under-
eight perfect flavours.
ground in the refurbished Court
Map 23 A3. q High Street Subway. Street shuttle station, which
was originally built in 1936.
This small historic district at the 3 Dumbo
foot of the Brooklyn Bridge was Map 23 A3. q York St, High St.
once the busiest section of
the East River, thanks to Robert Short for “Down Under the
Fulton’s steamboat ferries. Manhattan Bridge Overpass,”
Among the landmarked Dumbo is a ritzy area of
19th-century buildings is converted brick factories, located
the Eagle Warehouse, built in between the Manhattan and
Romanesque Revival style for Brooklyn bridges. Primarily
the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper industrial in the 19th century,
in 1893. Today, it is occupied the district’s spacious lofts were
by expensive apartments. colonized by artists in the 1970s.
The old pier area still hosts Since the 1990s, the neigh bor-
New York Water Taxis from hood has been transformed by Model of “City Car” Number 100 at the
Manhattan, as well as popular art galleries, hip restaurants, New York Transit Museum

Brooklyn Bridge, as seen in the Dumbo neighborhood

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