Brooklyn may be New York’s hippest borough to live or start a business. It just doesn’t hold that much cachet for the city’s fashion industry.
Mayor Bill de Blasio says he wants to provide apparel makers affordable space to grow by luring them out of midtown Manhattan’s garment district and into cheaper, city-owned warehouses in Brooklyn. As part of his plan, the city would end a 1987 zoning law that has protected manufacturing use and limited office space in the district.
Manhattan clothing makers, designers and merchants are not on board.
Story here by Henry Goldman/Bloomberg
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