In Popular Culture
- Jerry Seinfeld once referred to Dumbo on a late-night talk show appearance, joking that it stands for "Down Under Manhattan Bridge," but that New Yorkers arbitrarily added the "O" at the end because they did not want to live in a neighborhood called "Dumb."
- Tracy Bonham wrote a song about her years in Dumbo on her CD Blink the Brightest, "Dumbo Sun".
- The neighborhood is parodied in Grand Theft Auto IV as BOABO ("Beneath the Off-ramp of the Algonquin Bridge Overpass").
- Featured as a filming location in Stanley Kubrick’s second motion picture, “Killer’s Kiss” (1955).
- Featured as the residence of the Humphrey family on the tv show Gossip Girl. The view from Washington street appears very often to inform the viewer of the scenario change from Manhattan to Brooklyn.
- Nacrene City in the Pokémon games Black and White and Black and White 2 is based on DUMBO
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—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“There is a continual exchange of ideas between all minds of a generation. Journalists, popular novelists, illustrators, and cartoonists adapt the truths discovered by the powerful intellects for the multitude. It is like a spiritual flood, like a gush that pours into multiple cascades until it forms the great moving sheet of water that stands for the mentality of a period.”
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