The city is backing off from a rezoning of the Garment District, including a controversial proposal to stick all the seamstresses in one building on West 38th Street and unlock all the surrounding office space to tenants who don't know their peplums from their pleats. Some high-profile names, like Diane von Furstenberg, have been critical of the rezoning plans, and Crain's reports that the endangered district is better off now than it has been in years. Why? Because of the recession, which has slowed landlords' ouster of shmatte salesmen. [Crain's]
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