FASHION CAPITOL. USA.

Ok, Guys ready for the tour? I should have realized today was not the day to do this as it is Rosh Hashanah, so many of the fabric/notions stores etc were closed... which is why also there is not a lot of traffic in this always busy city!

I walked around just ONE block here by my apartment here in NYC, Garment center/fashion center etc of NYC.

Here is a link to some shots I took walking around today.

I am 4 blocks from Times Square. The ball drops literally in my back yard... (if I had a back yard!) the garment center makes up quite a few blocks. Mostly in my hood its Fashion designers and fabric stores, one after the other...


So, if ANY of you watch Project Runway, then you would know MOOD Fabrics. that is a half a block from my place.

One place I like to shop at a lot is B&J fabrics. Closed today. rats. they carry pretty much everything, but there prices are not always the lowest...

Many of the smaller stores carry mostly silks, sari fabrics, linens, upholstery fabrics etc, and mostly the cottons are solids, and if they carry prints, they are not always the most up to date trendy quilting fabrics.

MJ TRIM, is one of my favorites. Its like a candy store for sewing folk... So is, daytona trim Which is very near my place... this is very bad....

My hood used to be, in fact our building used to be sweat shops... We were the only residential building on our block when we moved here. We would be bale to see people in the next building sitting at the sewing machines sewing all day and night... Then over night practically, it disappeared, as rental space inthe city became very high priced. It was then taken over by computer companies, which lasted about 5 minutes, adn now its pretty much Artists, photographers, small businesses etc., the fashion designers are still here, and on any given day there are Sample sales galore... And of course, All those Fabulous Fashion shows!
Thank goodness I hate shopping...(really i do!)
Its still a very interesting neighborhood.

We have the NEW, New York Times building that people keep Climbing up! and the Disney-fied 42nd St, Times Square, just 4 blocks north away. Madison square garden is 4 blocks south of me... Macy's, Empire State Building, just a hop down the block...

Central park is just 21 blocks away or, a 15 minute walk...

Which means there are Tourists everywhere... and mostly lost ones...

But most New Yorkers are pretty helpful and friendly, and dispite what most people think, its a very safe city.

The one thing, I'm not so happy about living here, is that, just last year, this was my view off our balcony (left pic) an the most recent one from the same place now (right one) what once was my garage, is now a 25 story builing.
then.......................now.

So for today. Thats all I have for you.

Let me know what other bits of New York you want to know about...
And maybe share what your hood is like!