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iamnyc t1_ja8gj8a wrote

Reply to comment by drpvn in Midtown Owners Hedge on Costly Office-to-Home Conversions by psychothumbs

Garment District also has manufacturing zoning, so you've got to go beg the City Council. We've seen how that turns out.

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drpvn t1_ja8gz12 wrote

I may be naive, but there is so little “manufacturing” left in the neighborhood, and the climate now is very different now than it was in the past, so I think they’ll ultimately allow more residential.

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iamnyc t1_ja8w3mq wrote

In the past, the City Council has generally erred on the side of zoning for the least profitable and viable uses, in order to make owners come to them to beg for whatever the market wants there. Local land use control is a pox on American society.

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Important-Ad1871 t1_ja9c32u wrote

There are still a lot of textile factories in the garment district, they’re just high up so you don’t see them

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drpvn t1_ja9ce04 wrote

3,000 jobs in the neighborhood, according to article

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Important-Ad1871 t1_ja9cuxg wrote

Total, or specifically for manufacturing?

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drpvn t1_ja9cxke wrote

Doesn’t specific so I assume it means total.

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Important-Ad1871 t1_ja9dhzn wrote

Well, I’m not sure if that’s supposed to be a lot or a little because the garment district isn’t very large.

But if you google “garment district factories” there really are a lot of them, especially for midtown.

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drpvn t1_ja9e9db wrote

It’s been a steady decline for a long time. I’ve read that at its peak (a long time ago), there were about 150,000 garment industry jobs in the neighborhood.

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Important-Ad1871 t1_ja9euui wrote

Yeah, because Manhattan used to be an industrial hub. But then it got too difficult to move all of the manufactured goods across the Hudson and everyone moved their operations to New Jersey or elsewhere. There are a lot of modern manufacturing companies that were founded in NYC between 1870 and 1930.

As someone who works in manufacturing, the number of textiles factories I expected to see in the garment district was 0, not 20+ lol.

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drpvn t1_ja9fh9u wrote

We can both agree that there are more garment industry jobs in the garment district than you expected.

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drpvn t1_ja9guyl wrote

> There were only 12,750 textiles employees in the US in 2021, of course there aren’t 150k just in Manhattan.

We also agree there aren’t 150,000 textile jobs in Manhattan today.

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