Photo essay: The Last of the Midtown West Cigar Factories

(fotorater.com) Midtown West is home to a large number of textile and clothing factories, but on the western reaches of the Garment District there is a factory of a different kind-where customers can buy the product straight from the production line.
Martinez Cigars on West 29th Street shares a block with textile wholesalers, a handbag store, and a Subway franchise. Customers can buy a range of Martinez brand cigars, all made on site, but they can also have a cigar rolled for them then and there.
“These guys have been here forever,” says Terence Roberts, who studied at the nearby CUNY Baruch campus in the 1990s. Continued