Article: Runway illusions in the fashion biz.(NEWS)

Byline: Greg David

Factory work now accounts for only two in every 100 jobs in New York City. Barely more than 20,000 people make clothes in the city, about the same number that work in the gambling industry. Yet the myth that manufacturing is important to the city is so embedded in the public mind that it has distorted public policy repeatedly over the past two decades.

Nowhere is that clearer than in the question of what to do about the languishing garment district, which once again occupies City Hall.

This history lesson begins in the early 1990s. Worried that rising real estate prices were forcing factories to leave the garment center, the ...

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