“Walking distance from attractions including Rockefeller Center, Radio City Music Hall,
St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Times Square...”
Located on West 47th Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in Manhattan, the world’s largest shopping district for diamonds of all shapes and sizes as well as fine jewelry.
♦The 16,000 square-foot IGT Jewelry Shopping Mall, located on the first three floors of the Extell Development Co.'s new tower, includes 80 linear feet fronting West 47th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. That city block, known as the Diamond District because it houses 25 exchanges with hundreds of independently operated open booths, will be given Madison Avenue glamour as Gulaylar gathers the best jewelers in New York and the world into an ultra-modern setting with state-of-the-art security.
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More than 90 percent of diamonds that enter the U.S., the world’s largest consumer market for the gems,
go through the district.
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More than 2,600 independent jewelry-related businesses.
47th - 50th Streets - Rockefeller Center station on
the IND Sixth Avenue Line offers service on the
B D F M trains. An underground concourse
connects the station with the buildings of
Rockefeller Center.
The 49th Street station on the BMT Broadway
Line offers service on the N Q R trains, and is
accessible via a part-time booth at Seventh
Avenue and 47th Street at the south end of the
station.