Greenpoint boutique Dalaga, whose name means “quintessential woman in her prime” in Tagalog, is a pioneer of sorts, that is, if you considered the Franklin St of a few years ago a frontier.
When fashion designer Michelle Mangiliman opened the store in July ’06, some two years after she and her husband uprooted themselves from San Francisco for Greenpoint (the choice of neighborhood largely upon the urging of friends). Back then, “there was one bar and one coffee shop on Franklin St,” Mangiliman said in an email interview. “We loved the people, history, and character of the buildings immediately.”
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