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By Michael Ewing 4/16/12 5:30pm

THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD

Looks like the ball of yarn is running out! (Courtesy of Wikipedia)

The Garment District is Booming—and That’s Bad for the Fashion Industry

The Garment District is turning around! Well, kind of.

The Fashion Center Business Improvement District released a report last Thursday that showed an economic gain in the dingy hood, Crain’s reported. But the jobs aren’t in fashion, mostly coming instead from art studios, hotels, restaurants and film. Read More

By Staff 3/30/06 1:47pm

Take a Whack at the Garment District

The Sun reports that a business improvement district called the Fashion Center wants to get rid of the fashion in its center–namely, the garment industries that were once the bulwark of industrial Manhattan. The idea would be to rezone areas that are now reserved for manufacturing for apartments and hotels. Arguably the space, set Read More

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