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The Garment District, also known as the Garment Center, the Fashion District, or the Fashion Center, is a neighborhood located in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Historically known for its role in the production and manufacturing of clothing, the neighborhood derives its name from its dense concentration of fashion-related uses.
The district overlaps with Manhattan Community Boards 2, 3, 5, and 6, and with New York's 7th and 12th congressional districts. It also overlaps with the 26th , 27th , and 28th districts of the New York State Senate , and with the 65th, 66th , 73rd, 74th, and 75th districts of the New York State Assembly .
The district covers three city council districts and four police precincts, and encompasses one of the largest landmark districts in New York City. Due to overwhelming disgust with the impending overdevelopment of Greenwich Village during the late 1950s and early 1960s, residents organized to fight further destruction of historic buildings and ...
Seventh Avenue—co-named Fashion Avenue in the Garment District and known as Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard north of Central Park—is a thoroughfare on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It is southbound below the park and a two-way street north of it.
Just one district in Manhattan chose Donald Trump over Kamala Harris in last week's election -- becoming the first in the borough to vote for a Republican presidential candidate in at least a decade.
Name of the neighborhood Limits south to north and east to west Upper Manhattan: Above 96th Street Marble Hill MN01 [a]: The neighborhood is located across the Harlem River from Manhattan Island and has been connected to The Bronx and the rest of the North American mainland since 1914, when the former course of the Spuyten Duyvil Creek was filled in. [2]
Being coextensive with an individual county, each borough also elects a district attorney, as does every other county of New York State. While the district attorneys of Manhattan and Brooklyn are popularly referred to as "Manhattan D.A. Cyrus Vance, Jr.", or "Brooklyn D.A. Kenneth P. Thompson" by the media, they are technically and legally the ...
Those riding in the city’s yellow taxis will also face increased charges, with $2.50 added to any trips which “begin, end or pass through Manhattan south of 96th Street,” for congestion pricing.