We have some sad news to share, which we have been putting off for some time now. Unfortunately, it our dear blog, 39th & Broadway has come to an end. The end has been in sight for a while now as myself, the founder and main writer, has just moved out of NYC (gasp). Yes, it is shockingly true, and while the move (for personal reasons) is only guaranteed for 6 months, that is still to long for me to feel authentically able to continue this very local NYC blog. Also, due my new location and career changes my schedule will likely not permit the attention to blogging that 39th & Broadway truly deserves. It is incredibly hard to leave the Garment Center and the difficulty of continuing to work in fashion design outside the area is slowly becoming a reality. But leaving NYC as a home is even more heartbreaking.
What started as a small personal blog to be an outlet for a couple Garment Center designers, morphed into a much larger website with a more diverse platform then we could have ever anticipated. This blog has proven to be more of a challenge and yet far more rewarding, than ever imagined. Of course much of this is due to you, our dear readers, who have provided endless support and feedback along the way. Without you this blog likely would have ended long ago. So thank you for being there day in and day out. Also, the fashion blogger community that has embraced us and inspired us, we are forever indebted to all of you. Finally, we would like to thank all the many contributors who over the last few years have shared with all of us their thoughts and feelings, advice and experience, on living and working in the New York fashion industry. It is all your insider information and personal stories, that made this fashion blog unique, so thank you all.
So for now, this is goodbye but who knows what the future holds. Perhaps we will be back, or perhaps a new blog with a new perspective will develop. For now we will just wait and see how it all plays out. Over the next week or two we will put up a post/page linking many of our top articles and useful industry pieces in a way easy for our readers to navigate. Since much of what we have written is timeless, and since many of you may not have read our older pieces, we will try to get up some sort of comprehensive resource page. We also hope that you will continue to support the efforts to save the Garment Center and will place links and resources for that as well on the top of our site.
We hope you have all enjoyed 39th and Broadway as much as we did, and perhaps learned a little something along the way. Again our deepest thanks to all of you, and a reluctant, goodbye…..For now.
