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Sandwiched between the steel and concrete walls of MIT’s expanding campus and the late-Victorian homes and Haitian barbershops of working-class east Cambridge, the Garment District caters both to college and blue-collar shoppers—or anyone searching for clothes at rock-bottom prices...
...manager, co-owner, and president of The Garment District, Inc., Christopher Cassell admits that the building, parts of which date back to 1891, is in dire need of rehabilitation...
...Garment District is 14 years old, the complement to the Dollar A Pound business that began when the building still housed an industrial rag manufacturer...
...along with free enterprise come the whims of the customer. The garment factory's profits, normally about $30,000 a year, fell to $15,000 in 1984, when the collective overestimated the demand for army-style clothes. "We have to be much more responsive to the market," admits Director Ru, Liao's boss. After the relative freedom of laboring in the fields, some workers have trouble adjusting to the tyranny of the assembly line. "You can't just go out to the well whenever you want, but I am getting used to it," says Liao...
...star on the Las Vegas, Atlantic City and Catskill Borscht Belt circuit for 40 years, and a favorite of TV audiences on the old Ed Sullivan hour and the Tonight show; after a heart attack; in Nyack, N.Y. A onetime salesman in New York City's garment district, Cohen specialized in dialect stories and ethnic jokes that were sometimes blue, usually hilarious, but always gentle...