URBAN FABRIC: Building New York's Garment District

A FREE EXHIBITION at 1411 Broadway, corner of 40th St.

August 5, 2013 - October 31, 2013

Once home to the largest concentration of skyscraper factories in the world and more than 100,000 manufacturing jobs, New York's historic Garment District has changed dramatically in the past 50 years, but remains one of the city's most authentic neighborhoods. Constructed almost entirely in the boom decade from 1921-1931, the "Art Deco" district contains more than 125 stepped-back "loft" buildings that took the pyramidal forms dictated by the city's then-new zoning law.

From August 5 through October 31, The Skyscraper Museum is presenting a FREE exhibition on the architecture and urban history of the Garment District in a pop-up space at 1411 Broadway. The installation reprises the exhibition The Skyscraper Museum originated last year in its lower Manhattan gallery. View full record of that exhibit in a virtual format.

The guest curator for the exhibition is Andrew S. Dolkart, the James Marston Fitch Professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

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