Step inside ‘The Wing,’ the new DUMBO space for women only
The Wing has landed in Brooklyn.
“We move fast,” says co-founder Audrey Gelman, and it’s true. After announcing the women-only co-working and community space was coming to DUMBO last summer, miracle of miracles, that opening actually happened within a reasonable amount of time. Speedy construction? In New York City? Unheard of!
But you’d expect nothing less from the club-turned-movement, which now has a 13,000-person waiting list of people clamoring to get in. The original Flatiron outpost opened in October 2016 and its SoHo expansion opened just a year later. Gelman says they were approached with the idea for their first Brooklyn site by landlord Two Trees Management, responsible for much of the revitalization of the DUMBO waterfront. Gelman says it was hard at first to imagine transforming the vacant Bubby’s restaurant location at the Clocktower Building on 1 Main St., in a space that was once upon a time a tape factory.