The Manhattan Bridge looms behind an audience of hundreds sitting in the grass of Brooklyn Bridge Park before the “Movies With a View” outdoor screening. Outdoor movies are a perennial summer pastime for New Yorkers, with festivals and showings put on in various neighborhoods of the city throughout the warm months. Photo via Getty. More photos below…. More»

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The powerHouse Arena, a gallery, boutique, and performance space located in the heart of Dumbo, Brooklyn was buzzing with excitement for the opening of D.U.M.B.O. Show, an exhibition by Patrick McMullan. More»

• Your mother was totally right, don’t climb on that! [CityRoom]
• RIP Deep Throat [Salon]
• Bartenders tend to your beards!! [GrubStreet]
• Mimi, Ari, you knew that a more ‘advanced’ Style is the fashion trend![TheMoment]
• DUMBO, no more high rises!-Under Manhattan Bridge-remember? [DailyIntel]

• East Village art is sweeter, more demure than Bowery art [VanishingNY]
• Wedding umbrellas left behind in DUMBO [mcbrooklyn]
• Maybe Drew is xoxo-ing to get a part on Gossip Girls? [Seriously?OMG!WTF?]
• Facebook just wants world peace [The Social]
• Thank the recession for OpenTable at UWS establishments [TheLifeVicarious]

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Lately, all that my nerd friends have been yapping about is DUMBO. Seriously, grab any young entrepreneur in the technology field and ask them if they’ve been to DUMBO and I’m willing to bet that, not only did they hop on the C Train that very DAY for a nerd herd luncheon, but that they are beat from the rest of the afternoon they spent there playing with their nerd toys together. Modern Humorist’s Mike Colton couldn’t be happier about his move from Manhattan to Dumbo:

“The area is ‘industrial, but artsy, and seems to be on its way up.’ 

Other tech startups in Dumbo include Gothamist, Element Inc., Drop.io, Big Spaceship, The Knot, Free Verse, and Carrot Creative, just to name a few. Hoping to find out why the nerd herds are all flocking across the river, we went straight to Mike Germano, the creative director of Carrot Creative to find out. He lets us in on the reason tech want to be in DUMBO, the culture of the area, and why we should care about l33t speak.

Why did you decide to be based out of Dumbo?
Our main reason for relocating to DUMBO was the real estate cost relative to Midtown, the former cardboard-box factories that line the streets of DUMBO make for perfect loft-like office space. This type of environment is a boon to our creativity and even makes it possible for computer nerds like us to engage in our primary form of exercise: Nintendo Wii.

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