how many microdistricts could there be in the city? I wasn’t imagining things — the Flatiron District, or more specifically, a stretch of 18th Street between Fifth and Eighth Avenue, is home to an unusually high concentration of furniture, kitchen, and bath stores. SoHo also has a high share of furniture stores, in spite of, or alongside, its famed shopping. Most surprising, however, is the concentration of furniture stores at 59th and Third Avenue, at the foot of the Queensboro Bridge. Does the cluster serve Queens residents as they leave Manhattan, or was this location best, decades ago, for Queens furniture makers to sell their work in the city?

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