The remaining downtown stores -- what few they are -- are around West
Broadway.

The 9/11 attacks have been devastating to the garment industry. Today, most
of the industry is off-shore (China, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia--- you
know, the garden spots of the world where they employ child and slave labor
and pay 38 cents a day... But I digress.)

The fabric stores were hardest hit because so few people sew now, and
whatever suppliers they had in the US textile the industry has dries up.

There are a few nice stores on 39th over by 8th ave. But they are very
expensive.

Monica
Works in Manhatten teaching fashion

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Penny wrote:

What are  some of the names of the main streets in NYC fashion district?  I
am  working on a 1905 jobber's pocket manual that lists various fashion
related
 businesses, retailers, manufacturers, and mills east of the Mississippi
River.  I am just wondering if the streets list for businesses, etc. is
what is
called the fashion district today.   Some of the locations  are 300-500
blocks
of Broadway, Worth St., Green St., Leonard St. and White  St.




These are not in the current Garment District.  Some of these areas  did
still have fabric stores as late as 2001 (stopped working downtown after the
attacks and I haven't been back).  The Garment District is Westside upper
30's
from Broadway over to 8th/9th Avenues.  The Broadway addresses would  be
around
1400.

Nancy



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