The garment industry favours the City of Hope Medical Centre.

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New York City's garment district is about a mile and several eons from Andrew Rosen's offices at 38 Gansevoort Street.

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Next to the garment district in an even more insalubrious part of the city, heavily populated with drunks is Toy-town, home to more than 100 businesses, most of them owned by Chinese immigrants who specialise in managing production chains that link Chinese capital and labour with western designers and marketers.

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