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Potential Pyramid Scheme in DUMBO

Potential Pyramid Scheme in DUMBO

Is NYC’s next architectural adventure shaped like a pyramid? Maybe, if one of the groups competing for usage space in Brooklyn’s historic Tobacco Warehouse has its way. The recently stabilized structure  is currently under the purview of the powers-that-be at the new Brooklyn Bridge Park, which sees the Warehouse as “most compelling public spaces” in the city’s quest to spruce up the Brooklyn waterfront.

Our friends at Curbed have some renderings of what dance and theater troupe LAVA would like to do if they win the great space race for this (currently) roofless brick structure that seems to sidle up next to the Brooklyn Bridge. This blogger has to wonder if it’s less a pyramid and more a volcano (LAVA… volcano… get it?)

Meanwhile, contestant #2, the DUMBO-based theater group St. Ann’s Warehouse, has more a conventional, but potentially more contextually palatable, idea of what they’d like a revamped Tobacco Warehouse to look like.

Despite an appeal by former Partridge Family star and 1970s teen idol Susan Dey to send the contract out for re-bidding at Monday’s tempestuous public meeting, the folks at Curbed are putting their money on St. Ann’s to win the conditional designation sometime soon. (Leave us your predictions in the comments section below.)

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