Does the thought of shopping in the garment district overwhelm you? I hope this Google map I made will take some of the stress out of shopping here.I've created a Google map of New York's garment district to make things a little easier for newcomers to the area. (I've been shopping in the garment district many, many times and I still consider myself a newcomer.) Here are some of the map's features:
- My favorite stores have blue placemarks. These are the stores I recommend visiting if you have a limited time in the city, and they are also the preferred stores of many PatternReview members.
If you have more time, you may want to hit the stores with red placemarks as well.
Purple placemarks indicate stores I have not visited—yet—but may have been recommended by other PR members
Other places of interest, such as Bryant Park and the Museum at FIT, are marked with green thumbtacks.
Restrooms are designated with a woman symbol
Click on a placemark and you get a pop-up with store description, hours and a photo (if I've taken one).Keep in mind that this is only the beta version of this map, and that I plan on adding more stores and information to it. Currently I only show two places to eat: Le Pain Quotidien and Hill Country. If you have favorite area restaurants or sandwich shops please let me know so I can add them to this map.
Lindsay T's Favorite NY Garment District Stores Map
See the post below for Karla Kizer's garment district directory.
14 comments:
this is awesome, I actually thought about you when me and my MIL was walking in the district yesterday, I looked up and saw R&C and I remembered you did a review about them a week or two ago, lol
I hadn't seriously planned a trip to NY, but after seeing this map, I may have to change my plans. Thank you for preparing this wonderful map.
What a fabulous resource, Lindsay. Thanks so much for the effort you put into this. Have you considered a new career as a tour guide to the garment district for sewists? You are a natural!
Fantastic resource! I've been to NY a couple of times and was always too intimidated to go into any stores in this area. Now I that I have this info I need to schedule a trip!
Ooh, green with envy at that many stores in one place!
Lindsay & Karla, thank you so much for putting this together. I really appreciate the work you both put into gathering and posting the information. I do hope the garment district survives. How sad it would be to see it gone. ;o( I really want to make another trip to the NYC shops one of these days.
This is such a great resource for everyone! I can recommend Greenberg and Hammer in their new locations. It is lovely and airy, but you'd better know what you want as not everything is out in the open. But, the help is very nice and there is a lovely seating area with magazines for the non sewing partner.
I haven't been in Steinlauf and Stoller in a while, but it is your typical crowded garmnent district place. They do have a good selection of pattern making and other tools and will shorten zippers while you wait. If I remember where I was correctly, they also will apply snaps.
Lindsay you are making me want to visit NYC even more! Thanks to you and Karla for putting all this info together.
This makes me so sad. I left New York a year ago, and the thing that I miss most about living in there is the fabric stores.
Thanks so much for this resource. You're wicked awesome!
On your request for good places to eat, be sure to check out Village 38 at the corner of 38th St. and 8th Ave. You can get everything from soup and salad to panini, hot food bar and hero sandwiches. The food is good and reasonably priced for Manhattan. There's a dining area on the 2nd floor.
Here are two in the FIT area:
BRGR (relatively spacious, pleasant, wood-and-brick hamburger place) and Kofoo (Korean, a bright, tiny box, mainly for takeout, although you can grab a quick bite there.) BRGR is more expensive. Both have good, reliable food.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=fr&rls=GGGL%2CGGGL%3A2006-32%2CGGGL%3Aen&q=brgr&btnG=Rechercher&lr=
http://www.yelp.com/biz/kofoo-korean-rice-bar-new-york
Lindsay - I'm coming to NY next week on business and will have some, but very little time, to shop around. Thank-you so much for all the work you put into this!!! It will make it sewwww much easier to use my precious little time more efficiently!
-julia
I am going to NJ for 2 weeks and a trip to the garment district is high up on my agenda! I am a beginning sewer/knitter and as a former New Yorker, I am embarrassed to admit I had not been to the GD as an adult!
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