Goodbye, Garmentos: Rag Trade Surrenders to Dot-Com Riches
Decades ago, when the garment industry on the far West Side formed the spine of New York manufacturing, the squat, blocky building at 498 Seventh Avenue was the center of an economic universe.
Built by a consortium of 58 manufacturers around 1920, the Garment Center Capitol, as it was known, rose 24 stories, employed 22,000 Read More
