New-York tribune., 1919-12-07
Four Great Lofts To
Be Erected Close to
Pennsylvania Sta.
ton Where Needle
Trade Will Have
Best Facilities at
Rental of But so
Gents a OF


The development of Fifth Avenue
may now go on the fight has been won,
factories are to leave the precincts of
the great shopping places for other
sections and workers in mass will no
longer impede shoppers and traffic that
belong to an internationally famous
thoroughfare. The fruits of years of
planning. talking and reasoning are
now at hand. The man who makes
things and the man who sells things
are agreed that they cannot do busi-
ness side by side. The conferences of
the last few years have dispelled illu-
sions shared by each class, the retailer
and the wholesaler. Misunderstand-
ings have been cleared up, and now the
manufacturer is as Jealous Of the fu
ture of Fifth Avenue as he is Of his
business.
So he has decided to leave the back
door of Fifth Avenues big stores for
a district farther west; a district
which will be essentially his, where his
workshops and workers will dominate,
where he can develop and take advan-
tage of Capitalization and cooperation
which he cannot enjoy to-day.
Mr.. Manufacturer and his needle
workers ere to establish theAl selves
west of Seventh Avenue andi north
and south of the Pennsylvania Station.
Blocks and blocks Of property have
been taken under contract and on this
land will be erected tall factory build
ings that will be models Of construc-
tion art and industrial planning.
The welfare of the workers will be
attended to in ways impossible in the
type of buildings now occupied. The
buildings will be great cooperative in
stitutions, every tenant being an own
err. Profit is not the motive behind
of the manufacturer. He has been
startled by the increasing Overhead" F."
1t has been moving upward and up
ward.
The business fallacy Of workshops
in retail district where values run
into thousands of dollars front foot
has been borne to manufacturers on
the troubled business tides of the last
few years. A halt had to be made
some time, and, while searching for
economy in operation and lowering
of the cost of production. the solution
of the growing menace to Fifth Ave-
nue. was hit upon and developed by the
two interests, the manufacturer and
the "Save New York Committee" Fifth
Avenue storekeepers and property IN
terests. The plan has been developed
6uluCl6utl4 W IS0VLt Auo oUNSSoo'
Great Workshops to Be Built
The next few months will witness
the start of what will be the finest
industrial settlement in the country.
1t will be known as the Needle Trade
District" of New York, because acres
and acres of land is destined to be
covered with large workshops, where
garments for men. women and chill
dren, enough to clothe the country's
population, will be turned out.
Sites totaling thousands of square
feet have been taken under contract
and areas Of greater size adjoining
these are under control so that the ex-
pansion of the colony may not be in
terfered with.
The manufacturers have bought or
optioned, through Frederick Fox e. Co.,
all of the west side of Seventh Ave
nue. from Thirty-sixth to Thirty eighth
street, with the exception of the Hotel
York the Hotel Navarro at Seventh
Avenue and Thirty eighth Street, has
been acquired, and though, fine build