New York Garment Center Shopping Tour

6th Ave
Shop like an industry insider in the Garment District, the epicenter of fashion in New York City! On this three-hour guided walking tour, you'll visit private showrooms not accessible to the public. You'll also shop at hot designer sample sales, and ... more
Shop like an industry insider in the Garment District, the epicenter of fashion in New York City! On this three-hour guided walking tour, you'll visit private showrooms not accessible to the public. You'll also shop at hot designer sample sales, and snap up women's clothing and accessories for less than the wholesale price. Note that shopping destinations are primarily for women's items. This New York Garment Center Shopping Tour is a must for shoppers who want to experience one of New York's last wholesale districts at work. You'll visit the buildings of world-famous designers, whose work impacts fashion the world over. Add a visit to the world's most famous trim store, with your expert guide to lead the way, and this is the perfect morning tour for fashionistas, "better clothing" bargain hunters, and the fashion curious. Tour highlights: * Sample sale shopping (most sizes usually available) * Wholesale showrooms * World's most famous trim store, featured in the New York Times and Martha Stewart Living * Seeing NYC's original manufacturing and design district where few tourists enter! * A list of other notable sales of the day for independent shopping following the tour ... more

Shop like an industry insider in the Garment District, the epicenter of fashion in New York City! On this three-hour guided walking tour, you'll visit private showrooms not accessible to the public. You'll also shop at hot designer sample sales, and snap up women's clothing and accessories for less than the wholesale price. Note that shopping destinations are primarily for women's items.

This New York Garment Center Shopping Tour is a must for shoppers who want to experience one of New York's last wholesale districts at work. You'll visit the buildings of world-famous designers, whose work impacts fashion the world over. Add a visit to the world's most famous trim store, with your expert guide to lead the way, and this is the perfect morning tour for fashionistas, "better clothing" bargain hunters, and the fashion curious.

Tour highlights:

* Sample sale shopping (most sizes usually available)
* Wholesale showrooms
* World's most famous trim store, featured in the New York Times and Martha Stewart Living
* Seeing NYC's original manufacturing and design district where few tourists enter!
* A list of other notable sales of the day for independent shopping following the tour – a valuable insider tool!
* This guided walking shopping tour is limited to 12 guests, ensuring you’ll enjoy personalized attention

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Chelsea Description

New York Garment Center Shopping Tour is located in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. Once a mixed, low-income neighborhood on the West Side, Chelsea has become a focal point for artists and galleries. It has a wide reputation as Manhattan's gay mecca, and while that has historically been true, rising acceptance of the gay lifestyle—and soaring rents—has led to a dissipation of the community in the neighborhood. These days, Chelsea is, very simply, a bastion of affluence more than any other social status, with the conversion of many apartment buildings to condos and co-ops and the on-rush of multimillion-dollar brownstones and lofts. In the ever-northward shift of Manhattan's masses, the high prices of Greenwich Village and Christopher Street area (which has boasted a large LGBT community since the 1960s) led many to head north to Chelsea in the late 1980s. In that migration, many have already moved on from Chelsea to the northern climes of Hell's Kitchen and Washington Heights, or east to Brooklyn. While Eighth Avenue between 14th and 23rd Streets formerly had one of New York’s highest concentrations of gay-operated restaurants, stores, cafes, the population transfer changed the demographics once again—you'll find much higher concentrations in Hell's Kitchen nowadays. The Chelsea art scene blossomed thanks to the conversion of garages and warehouses between Tenth and Twelfth Avenues, and likely will become a victim of its own success. What SoHo and the 57th Street area lost in stature has been Chelsea’s gain, and almost all the well-established flagship galleries make Chelsea their base. How did it all begin? In 1987, the Dia Center for the Arts—later known as Dia: Chelsea—became one of the pioneers in the area, establishing its main exhibition facility on West 22nd Street. Ironically, after opening its flagship museum Dia: Beacon upstate, it was left without a Manhattan presence. Plans to move down to Greenwich Village and abut the new High Line elevated park were scuttled, and the Whitney instead grabbed the valuable tract that once appealed to Dia. Of course, the High Line further increased property values, thus begetting additional high-rises between Tenth Avenue and West Street, which in turn brought in starchitects like Frank Gehry and Jean Nouvel, whose creations can be seen soaring from the earth along West Street. You can learn more about these in our new architecture of Manhattan walking tour. While the ethnic diversity of Chelsea was once truly enviable, the neighborhood still remains one of only a few places where housing ranges from high-rise public housing projects to single-family brownstones to new glass condominiums—even on the same block! Some of Manhattan’s most affordable rent-stabilized apartments can be found between Seventh and Ninth Avenues. The historic district has some fine examples of nineteenth-century city dwellings, and small gardens and flowering trees abound. If you think the grounds of General Theological Seminary (440 West 21st Street) look familiar, that's because it is frequently functions as a set for the TV show Law & Order! Even seminaries have to make money, and thus G.T.S. (as it's known) demolished its former entrance on Ninth Avenue to make way for (what else?) luxury condominiums. At its Tenth Avenue entrance, G.T.S. created one of Manhattan's most charming niche hotels, the Desmond Tutu Center, named after the great South African archbishop. Speaking of hotels, Chelsea has no shortage of great places to stay and to eat. On Tenth Avenue you'll find the renowned tapas of Tia Pol and its offshoot El Quinto Pino just two blocks away. There's the upscale Cookshop nearby, and further south on Tenth Avenue you'll find the Iron Chef's Morimoto at the great Chelsea Market, also home to Buddakan on the Ninth Avenue side.

Info

6th Ave
New York, NY

Editorial Rating

Tour Admission Cost

From $65

Tour Duration And Additional Info

3 hours
* Children aged 10 years and under are free of charge; however, tour is not recommended for children aged 16 years and under.
* Tour does not include gratuity, meals, or beverages.
* This tour must be booked at least 72 hours in advance of your travel date.
* Tour maximum: 12 people.
* It is recommend that wheelchair bound guests have an assistant.
All sales are final and incur 100% cancellation penalty.

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