Manhattan's Chinatown Pressured to Sell Out
By Michael Powell - Washington Post
Saturday, May 21, 2005; Page A03
NEW YORK, May 20 -- The sounds on the fifth-story factory floor in Chinatown are nearly timeless: the whirr-whirr of sewing machines, feet tap-tapping on pedals, and the juicy vowels of 50 or so women chatting in Fujianese and Cantonese as they work fabric into vast piles of pants and shirts.
So how is business?
Garment factory owner Peter Wong, 44, smiles wanly and runs his hand over close-cropped black hair. "Off by half in the past six months," he says. "We can't compete with China. The future for my business is very, very dim."
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