{"id":304,"date":"2007-02-12T06:08:44","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T06:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/2007\/02\/12\/a-winter-walk-in-dumbo\/"},"modified":"2007-02-12T06:08:44","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T06:08:44","slug":"a-winter-walk-in-dumbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/2007\/02\/12\/a-winter-walk-in-dumbo\/","title":{"rendered":"A Winter Walk in DUMBO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>D<\/strong>own <strong>U<\/strong>nder the <strong>M<\/strong>anhattan <s>and Brooklyn<\/s> <strong>B<\/strong>ridge <strong>O<\/strong>verpasses are industrial dark canyons making a neighborhood known as Dumbo. Once mostly storage and machine shops, it&#8217;s long since turned into expensive lofts that lift above the shadows. This brought a very arty feel to the gritty streets and the warehouses are peppered with performance spaces and just a touch of shopping and restaurants. It&#8217;s sort of a dark, Soho light. All this is about 400 meters down the hill from our place and a fun location to tour on a boring Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dumbo_02.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seantconrad.com\/years\/2007\/days\/feb\/dumbo_02.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"444\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dumbo_03.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seantconrad.com\/years\/2007\/days\/feb\/dumbo_03.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dumbo_04.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seantconrad.com\/years\/2007\/days\/feb\/dumbo_04.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dumbo_05.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seantconrad.com\/years\/2007\/days\/feb\/dumbo_05.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dumbo_06.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seantconrad.com\/years\/2007\/days\/feb\/dumbo_06.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Last night I didn&#8217;t watch even one millisecond of the Grammies. And, yes, I am pretentiously proud of that. Award shows are to culture what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2004\/1110\/p11s01-lifo.html\">TV diners are to cuisine<\/a>. The Grammies would be the salsbury steak, as in the worst.<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Site of the Day:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martyz.com\/2007\/02\/09\/martyzcom-video-podcast-1\/\">Marty Z is my favorite video podcaster<\/a>.<br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>D<\/strong>own <strong>U<\/strong>nder the <strong>M<\/strong>anhattan <s>and Brooklyn<\/s> <strong>B<\/strong>ridge <strong>O<\/strong>verpasses are industrial dark canyons making a neighborhood known as Dumbo. Once mostly storage and machine shops, it&#8217;s long since turned into expensive lofts that lift above the shadows. This brought a very arty feel to the gritty streets and the warehouses are peppered with performance spaces and just a touch of shopping and restaurants. It&#8217;s sort of a dark, Soho light. All this is about 400 meters down the hill from our place and a fun location to tour on a boring Sunday.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dumbo_02.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seantconrad.com\/years\/2007\/days\/feb\/dumbo_02.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"444\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dumbo_03.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seantconrad.com\/years\/2007\/days\/feb\/dumbo_03.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dumbo_04.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seantconrad.com\/years\/2007\/days\/feb\/dumbo_04.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dumbo_05.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seantconrad.com\/years\/2007\/days\/feb\/dumbo_05.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dumbo_06.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seantconrad.com\/years\/2007\/days\/feb\/dumbo_06.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Last night I didn&#8217;t watch even one millisecond of the Grammies. And, yes, I am pretentiously proud of that. Award shows are to culture what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2004\/1110\/p11s01-lifo.html\">TV diners are to cuisine<\/a>. The Grammies would be the salsbury steak, as in the worst.<\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Site of the Day:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martyz.com\/2007\/02\/09\/martyzcom-video-podcast-1\/\">Marty Z is my favorite video podcaster<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brooklyntrout.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}