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NYC Garment Center Special District, 1986-1987

 File — Box: 19, Folder: 5

Scope and Contents

See also NYC – Commercial Rent Control; see also NYC Industrial Loft Advisory Council; see also NYC 42nd St. Redevelopment Project 1984; see also Abeles Schwartz Associates 1983-1984; see also Local 23-25 – Garment Center Rally 1962-1972 Letters from Mazur to Gerald Shaw, president of Oscar de la Renta and others, urging them to testify in support of creating a Garment Center Special District, which would preserve manufacturing in perpetuity within the city’s traditional garment district, March 9; Statement of Jay Mazur, president, ILGWU, on the Garment Center Special District, Board of Estimate Hearing, March 26, 1987; garment center fact sheet; letter from Mazur to Assemblyman Jerrold Nadler re Nadler’s support for zoning to preserve manufacturing as expressed in his letter to the Village Voice, December 9, 1986 (attached)

Dates

  • 1986-1987

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Conditions Governing Access

From the Collection:

The ILGWU Records, except for publications and materials produced for publication, are restricted. Materials created prior to twenty years from the current date are open to researchers only with prior written permission from the Director of the Kheel Center; materials created during the past twenty-years are closed; the minutes of the General Executive Board are closed. For more information contact the Kheel Center.

Extent

39 cubic feet

Repository Details

Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository

Contact:
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853