Now they have an 8-month-old son, Alexander, and live in a loft building in the flower district.

She owns Foliage Garden, a shop in the flower district.

The main things growing in the flower district these days are apartment buildings.

But some wholesalers are not convinced and say the flower district should stay.

The flower district soon became entrenched and flourished there into the 1970's.

But where can the flower district go to avoid the congestion and residential creep?

The city's wholesale flower district, usually bustling, was nearly deserted.

She wanted to live in Chelsea, to be near the flower district, but she didn't want to pay the high prices.

However, some businessmen in the flower district expressed less than complete enthusiasm for the relocation notion.

But the company recently learned that its run in the flower district will come to an end this summer.