17. Garment West

(37th to 39th Streets, Ninth to Tenth Avenues)

Because it’s crane crazy.

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By S.Jhoanna Robledo
Published Apr 3, 2011

(Photo: Courtesy of TF Cornerstone)

There are still sewing-machine shops and zipper-mongers here, but the real manufacturing lately has been of the real-estate variety. The monumental Hudson Yards overhaul includes two residential towers with over 1,200 combined apartments, not counting what’s to come at the Related Companies’ 12-million-square-foot megacomplex in the mid-Thirties.Then there’s Hudson Crossing, the Townsend, and an unfinished condo by Karl Fischer, all on 37th Street, bringing hundreds more units online.

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