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A store (to model) grows in Brooklyn

Prototypes
#1

Came across this neat old store on Fulton Street in DUMBO, a part of Brooklyn that’s undergoing heavy gentrification. Lots of neat details in that storefront calling out to be modeled, right Bruce Chandler? According to Wikipedia, in the 1890s the area was a manufacuring hub where Brillo was produced and the cardboard box was invented. BTW, Dumbo, or DUMBO, stands for District Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass. Jerry Seinfeld joked that the area was originally supposed to be refered to us Down Under the Manhattan Bridge, but residents added the Overpass part because they didn’t want to live in a place called Dumb. The bridge is that structure looming above the building at the top of the photo. Oh, and those people aren’t really that fat. They just got that way when I straightened out the horizontal distortion in Photoshop. Sorry about the quality. It’s an iPhone grab shot that’s been enlarged somewhat.

Here’s an unfixed image, for those who need to know.

#2

Ohh that is very neat…typical of a storefront that is just as at home in a big city, or a small town anywhere across the country…

#3

Not only neat, but it looks pretty straight forward to build. I guess 2 shops, and the other entrance takes you upstairs?

#4

Don’t forget the basement entrances next to the shop stairs!

#5

I though those were for the trolls…

#6

Joe Zullo said:

Don’t forget the basement entrances next to the shop stairs!

Bruce Chandler said:

I though those were for the trolls…

No, those stairs take you down to my Uncle Ray’s Watch Repair Shop!

#7

…in the basement.

#8

The whole Dumbo area is filled with neat old buildings including warehouses with big loading doors on each of their several stories. I should have taken more photos and maybe even measured the one building I did photograph, but we were having too much fun, and the place was full of touristas. Still, a great old building. And thanks for pointing out the cellar stairs.