page_title: Dumbo, Brooklyn
section_title: In popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: Dumbo, Brooklyn / In popular culture
caption_attribution_description: English: Interactive public art project Kortunefookie, shown at Art Under The Bridge, DUMBO, New York, september 2008 Français&#160;: Le projet d'art public interactif Kortunefookie, présenté au festival Art Under The Bridge, DUMBO, New York, septembre 2008 kortunefookie.com
context_page_description: Dumbo is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The area known as DUMBO used to be known as Gairville. It encompasses two sections: one located between the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges, which connect Brooklyn to Manhattan across the East River, and another that continues east from the Manhattan Bridge to the Vinegar Hill area. The neighborhood is bounded by Brooklyn Bridge Park to the north, the Brooklyn Bridge to the west, Brooklyn Heights to the south and Vinegar Hill to the east. Dumbo is part of Brooklyn Community Board 2.
  The area was originally a ferry landing, characterized by 19th- and early 20th-century industrial and warehouse buildings, Belgian block streets, and its location on the East River by the imposing anchorage of the Manhattan Bridge. The entirety of Dumbo was bought by developer David Walentas and his company Two Trees Management in the late 20th century, and remade into an upscale residential and commercial community—first becoming a haven for art galleries, and currently a center for technology startups.
  The large community of tech startups earned DUMBO the nickname of "the center of the Brooklyn Tech Triangle".
context_section_description: Jerry Seinfeld referred to Dumbo on a late-night talk show appearance, joking that it stands for "Down Under Manhattan Bridge", but that New Yorkers added the "O" at the end because they did not want to live in a neighborhood called "Dumb".
  Tracy Bonham wrote a song about her years in Dumbo on her CD Blink the Brightest, "Dumbo Sun".
  The neighborhood is parodied in Grand Theft Auto IV as BOABO ("Beneath the Off-ramp of the Algonquin Bridge Overpass").
  It is featured as a filming location in the films Killer's Kiss (1955), The French Connection (1971), and Vanilla Sky (2001). It is also featured in Big Bang's music video Blue (2012), the music video for "Cruel Summer" by Bananarama (1983) and the opening credits of Rescue Me (2004).
  It is the residence of the Humphrey family in the television series Gossip Girl. The view from Washington Street appears very often to inform the viewer of the scenario change from Manhattan to Brooklyn.
  Dumbo is the inspiration of Nacrene City in the Pokémon Black and White games.
  Dumbo is featured prominently in the Sergio Leone drama film Once Upon a Time in America as the location for one of its scenes.
  Dumbo appears in Law and Order: Special Victims Unit as a site of a runaway girl and a rave in season two.
  Dumbo appears in the show Orange Is the New Black in the episode "Toast Can't Never Be Bread Again",  the fourth season's finale, as part of a flashback sequence of Poussey Washington's past, in which she is separated from her friends and meets some drag artists who take her to a party in a club in Dumbo.
  Dumbo is referenced on the Jay-Z track The Story of O.J. on the album 4:44, as Shawn Carter raps about a missed opportunity when he was younger to purchase a now valuable building in the neighborhood.
caption: Kortunefookie at Art Under The Bridge in Dumbo
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