Red brick doorway, with spooky skull image and artwork flowers, Superfine Restaurant, Front Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, New York

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Superfine, a bar, music venue, local hang-out and restaurant with a daily menu change, was one of the earliest hip restaurants in Dumbo, at a time when it was eerily creepy at night, perhaps explaining the spooky skull image above the doorway artwork celebrating Dumbo's post-industrial landscape. This area of Brooklyn was primarily a manufacturing district housing warehouses and factories that made machinery, card-board boxes and Brillo soap-pads. With the decline of manufacturing industry, the area was increasingly gentrified as artists moved in in the late 1970s and the area became largely residential. The acronym 'Dumbo' ('Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass') dates to 1978. In 2007 Dumbo was designated New York's 90th historic district. Increasing property prices in Manhattan in the 1990s helped photomusic art studios, galleries, indie film shops, fashion/furniture showrooms and band practice spaces locate there.

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Size: 2831px × 4256px
Location: Superfine Restaurant, 126 Front Street (at Pearl Street), Dumbo, Brooklyn, New York
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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