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air and light and deccncy. and ths0
know II. They know also that th6
rents they are paying IN the Fifth
avenue district are ~eNorbitant for theip
industry and Il needless tax On The
price OF American clothes from Bar
Harbor to San Diego. 4
Then why did the garment trades
move into the district where Father
knickerbocker wishes to swing HID
cane? The answer is: frst. TO get mod.
ern buildings for their work and for
their workers, and. second. TO get neat
the uptown shops and near the uptown
hotels. where the out OF town buyers
stop to rub on the cornsllk among
New fork's elite. Provide US with
modern buildings in our old home.~
say the garment men. and prove that
will go back b
IL now behooves the savers Of the
New. Uptown New York to wet the
sponge with running gold and rub out
the old downtown and build n new
garment city below Washington
Square. Is this feasible. and does the
larger future seeing spirit of tho
Greater New York with its ap.
palling congestion and almost un.
solvable transportation problem want
a Justify growing manufacturing in
dustry crowded back into the hear ~
the island. where 1t would evor
overflow?
There il but one Manhattan Island
and with uncanny foresight Peter
Minuit bought II OF the Indians for Z
trading station. Subsequent events
have shown IL to be the best located
trading station or the west half of the
earth. And where folk come to buy they
come to play. And around the worlds
greatest dollar swapping counter clua-
ter wealth. leisure and culture.
New York IL crowded. la Tvs will
stop the ~skypokeis. but tn. average
height OF Manhattan's houses is hut
four and e.yht-tenths stories. The
present limitation OF building laws will
f1atten out the skyline and make all
buildings look alike. but 1t will not stop
the increase of the floor area Of MANI
haitian. which can under the new law
Yet be multiplied several times.
Manhattan Island Is already too full
and getting fuller. and building height
laws Will not stop II. Industrial zoninG
may make our lady's shopping moro
pleasant. but ii will not long solve the
problem of too many people and too
many kinds Of people on the sidewalks.
Tubes and elevated railroads and tun-
nels and viaducts will all help some,
but they will not accommodate the
people who can live here beneath the
new chalk mark on the sky, not to
mention the daytime working popula.
ton that comes TO Manhattan Island
from outlying residential districts.
Peter Minuit's Island Is so full that
the sidewalks are not wide enough.
Some. n must get of the island. mo-
only to sleep nights but to work in
the daytime. They can come back to
t~rade--that's what Peter bought the
cuse for making Manhattan Island n
factory town. 1t is bad for the towA
1t is bad for the factory and It IL espe.
cially bad for the worker.
The only thing that has located and
Kept the garment makers in the heart
~ Manhattan Island was the compete
tive necessity OF being near. In min
utes. To the buyers. Give tho clothing
trades an ideal factory own within
ten minutes OF Fifth avenue and
Forty-second street, give them ample
space. air, light. lower rents. room for
expansion. modern factory buildings
FOR their industry and economical liv-
ing quarters for their workers. as far
superior 10 the of New
Works Fast Side as a modern hotel
Is To a farm house-give the armen
trades these essentials to their indus
trial and their human life and they
viii gladly and peacefully vacate
Fifth p gaining stability for real
estate and for the most famous shop-
ping district and play place of the
world salvation to its proper use ahj
purpose
And all these things can he accom-.
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