DUMBO, an acronym for Down Under The Manhattan Bridge Overpass was established by artists who moved into the neighborhood in the 1970s (Source: DUMBOnyc.com) The Historic DUMBO District stretches from John Street to York Street as it was “essential to Brooklyn’s rise as a major American industrial center and was the home of some of the most important industrial firms in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century America” (Source: DUMBOnyc.com) http://dumbonyc.com/Some of the companies whom called DUMBO home in 19th and 20th Centuries were Arbuckle Brothers (coffee and sugar), J. W. Masury & Son (paint), Robert Gair (paper boxes), E. W. Bliss (machinery), and Brillo (steel wool) (Source: DUMBOnyc.com)