dumbo

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“As we got on, I said something like, ‘I think this is for kids,’” Gleeson, 38, said late last week at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Dumbo, a sleeker corner of Brooklyn than the setting of his tale.

From New York Times

Some of Disney’s best known offerings from decades ago, including “Song of the South” and “Dumbo,” have been criticized for including racist imagery and what have been seen as thinly veiled racist caricatures.

From New York Times

The Walentas family and their real estate group, Two Trees Management Company, is known for redeveloping Brooklyn’s Dumbo neighborhood, which has brought praise and criticism for advancing the neighborhood’s gentrification.

From Seattle Times

We were at a restaurant by the water in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn, and she was sitting with her back to the East River, the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges on either side of her.

From New York Times

If Snow White looked suitably snowy in “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” if Pinocchio’s nose grew at just the right rate, if Dumbo was the correct shade of elephantine gray, all that was due in part to the largely unheralded work of Ruthie Tompson.

From New York Times