garment district
NYC's last fabric flower business has been making celebs shine and beautifying the Big Apple for over a century
March 5, 2025 | 1:39pmThe once-popular Big Apple industry may be wilting, but this business is still blooming.
The only way to end Midtown chaos is to forcibly take the mentally ill off the streets
August 14, 2024 | 4:53pmThe dire conditions enveloping Manhattan as mentally ill and drug-addicted vagrants flood the streets unchecked can only end if Albany changes state laws on helping those who refuse to be...
How celeb-beloved lingerie brand Fleur du Mal has managed to stay buzzy for more than a decade
August 2, 2024 | 6:00amAnne Hathaway, Sienna Miller, Beyoncé and Kendall Jenner have all been known to wear designs by the New York-based lingerie brand Fleur du Mal.
Junkies take over NYC block near office of Dem who applauds woke policies
July 20, 2024 | 3:24pmGangs of junkies have set up a foul drug den in East Harlem less than 250 feet from the office of Councilwoman Diana Ayala, who has supported harm reduction policies.
Horror stories from NYC's 8th Ave. 'Strip of Despair' — where stabbings, drug use and public defecation are the norm
June 17, 2024 | 7:14pm"They s**t on the street. They s**t on cars. We clean with a hose twice a week because everywhere smells like piss," one fed-up super said.
Women flock to meet 'the hottest sailors' at Fleet Week Singles?Party: 'I will move to America and have their babies'
May 25, 2024 | 1:10pmWomen from all over the world set their sights on the available sailors at the Fleet Week Open Bar?Singles?Party on Friday night.
NYC designer turns kids into mini fashion trendsetters at school club that sends students' ideas to factory
March 28, 2024 | 4:16pmSt. Stanislaus Kostka Catholic Academy’s Fashion Club recently started a fashion club for students.
Now-empty $42M NYC WeWork office building offered up as emergency migrant shelter
March 8, 2024 | 12:58pmA 16-story building in the Garment District formerly occupied by office space sharing provider WeWork has been proposed for conversion into to an emergency shelter for migrants,?officials said.
Tommy Gambino, ratted on by 'Sammy the Bull,' dead at 94
October 14, 2023 | 9:58amThomas Gambino, the oldest son of Mafia don Carlo Gambino and a capo of the crime family, died on October 3rd at the age of 94.
NYC sees some sanity as outdoor furniture encouraging drug use and vagrancy is put on ice
September 11, 2023 | 8:41pmFor what may have been only a fleeting?interlude of sanity, Broadway in the Garment District enjoyed a respite this month from colonization by drug addicts and predatory vagrants.
MSG-Penn Station impasse: City Council should call a short time-out
August 27, 2023 | 7:46pmMonday afternoon, a City Council committee votes on how long to extend to extend Madison Square Garden’s “special permit” to keep operating at its decades-long site above Penn Station.
Eric Adams needs a spine of steel to stop NYC Council lunacy scuttling Garment District plan
August 17, 2023 | 5:31pmMayor Adams wants to turn obsolete buildings into apartments. Left-of-Lenin Council members don't want to help, and unions are making a naked power grab too.
Man allegedly robs NYC cannabis shop, returns 4 days later to stab employee
December 18, 2022 | 10:34pmA man allegedly robbed a Manhattan smoke shop Wednesday and returned four days later and stabbed an employee,.
Garment district: Gillibrand bill encourages fashion industry to move stateside
May 12, 2022 | 1:03pmThe Fashion Accountability and Building Real Institutional Change Act, or FABRIC Act, is the first federal bill to specifically address the needs of garment workers.
Midtown merchants plead with Hochul to clamp down on skyrocketing crime
April 6, 2022 | 1:21pmCrime across Manhattan's Midtown South district has spiked by more than 50% year to date — wreaking havoc across a business corridor that is essential for the city's economic recovery.
Savage beating of retired NYPD sergeant caught on video
August 19, 2020 | 10:44pmA retired NYPD sergeant was punched and kicked as he lay helplessly on the ground in a brutal Manhattan beatdown caught on security footage, police sources told The Post. The...
Joseph Gambino, Mafia ruler of NYC's Garment District, dead at 83
March 20, 2020 | 12:04amJoseph Gambino, the easygoing son of Mafia don Carlo Gambino who became a millionaire businessman thanks to his father’s crime family clout — but who steered clear of the rest...
Qatar-based investment firm in talks to buy 2 Garment Center buildings
May 7, 2019 | 10:04pmMiddle Eastern entities are locking up more city assets, including a nearly billion-dollar purchase on Fifth Avenue and two other purchases in the Garment Center. Alduwaliya Asset Management, a Doha,...
Property bigs converting Garment District building to office condos
April 23, 2019 | 10:49pmHidrock Properties is converting one of its Garment District loft buildings into office condominiums.
City Council proposes legislation to ban sale of fur apparel
March 26, 2019 | 8:48pmHold on to your mink coats, fox caps and scarves. New York City could soon be a fur-less metropolis if Council Speaker Corey Johnson (D-Manhattan) has his way. Johnson, who...