DUMBO Improvement District

Services

• Free Wi-Fi The DUMBO Improvement District provides the DUMBO Neighborhood WiFi network - making DUMBO even more of a digital district. DUMBO was the first neighborhood to offer Free WiFi in the streets and public spaces. Yes, DUMBO beat Manhattan to Free WiFi! Since June 2011, thousands have logged into the free network - connecting in the streets, Brooklyn Bridge Park and in the Pearl Street Triangle and The Archway under the Manhattan Bridge.
• Beautification The DUMBO Improvement District's Doe Fund workers are out on the streets of DUMBO seven days a week providing supplemental street cleaning and beautification. The Doe Fund is a non-profit that works to break the cycles of homelessness, addiction, and criminal recidivism - by creating work and job skills training programs to help homeless individuals in their efforts to become self-sufficient. The DUMBO Improvement District is extremely proud to contract and partner with this program, and we are proud of the work these men do here every day.
• Management of Public Spaces The DUMBO Improvement District maintains The Archway Under the Manhattan Bridge and the Pearl Street Triangle in partnership with the New York City Department of Transportation. This includes plantings and cleaning and programming with events including markets, concerts, public art installations and more. Other initiatives include neighborhood marketing and tourism efforts and partnering with all sorts of organizations and producers to bring great things to DUMBO.
• Advocacy The DUMBO Improvement District has advocated for better public spaces, infrastructure and greater attention for the neighborhood since 2006. Restoring the historic Belgian Block streets has been top of that list and we are looking forward to the completion of Phase I (Water and Washington Streets) in fall 2011 - and the start of Phase II in the very near future.