GOP Plans Huge DUMBO Park Bash When the Republican National Convention rolls into town this summer, Manhattan won’t be the only borough getting a piece of the action. … Empire – Fulton Ferry State Park in DUMBO, tucked between the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridge overpasses, will be the site of a GOP sponsored blowout bash for nearly 15,000 news media personnel coming to town, according to sources working on the plans. … And the party is just one piece of the pie. … A delegates dinner at Gargiulio’s, a Brooklyn Cyclones baseball game and a trip to Nathan’s Famous, all in Coney island, top the list [State Senator] Golden submitted to the NYC Host Committee. … Meanwhile, Councilman James Oddo, the minority leader of the City Council, hopes to lure the Texan president to a “quintessential Italian Sunday dinner in Bensonhurst.”