Submitted by psychothumbs t3_11dbqqj in nyc
drpvn t1_ja9ce04 wrote
Reply to comment by Important-Ad1871 in Midtown Owners Hedge on Costly Office-to-Home Conversions by psychothumbs
3,000 jobs in the neighborhood, according to article
Important-Ad1871 t1_ja9cuxg wrote
Total, or specifically for manufacturing?
drpvn t1_ja9cxke wrote
Doesn’t specific so I assume it means total.
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.
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.
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.
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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