A shirtmaker on Madison Avenue, Midtown Manhattan.

The workroom at 420 Madison Avenue

The shop is at 420 Madison Avenue, Room 400, New York, NY 10017, in Midtown Manhattan. On arrival, ask at the building for Room 400. The workroom is open Monday to Friday, 9am to 4pm, and Saturday, 9am to 2pm, and is closed on Sunday. It is worth calling 212.625.3105 before you come so that time is set aside for you rather than shared with the cutting table.

The address is a short walk from Grand Central Terminal, which serves the 4, 5, 6 and 7 lines and the 42nd Street shuttle, and from the 47th to 50th Street station at Rockefeller Center, which serves the B, D, F and M. Buses run up and down Madison Avenue and Fifth Avenue, and cabs will know the block.

Why clients come to this address

Madison Avenue was chosen for a plain reason: it sits in the middle of the city, so it is reachable at lunchtime from the Midtown offices, in a few stops from the Upper East Side, and downtown from the Financial District on the 4 and 5 without changing trains. Clients who work within twenty blocks of the shop can be fitted and back at a desk inside an hour.

It is also why the shop suits visitors. Midtown hotels are within walking distance of the door, so a first fitting can be arranged early in a stay, with the date for the finished shirt agreed in the room before anything is cut.

Where the clients come from

Clients travel in from across Manhattan, and the ZIP codes below are now the most common. If yours is not listed, the answer is the same: the shop sees clients from all five boroughs, from New Jersey and Connecticut, and from out of town while visiting New York.

Upper East Side, Carnegie Hill, Yorkville

10021 · 10028 · 10065 · 10075 · 10128

Sutton Place, Turtle Bay and Beekman

10017 · 10022

Midtown East, Murray Hill and Kips Bay

10016 · 10010

Midtown West, the Garment District and Times Square

10018 · 10019 · 10036

Lincoln Square and the Upper West Side

10023 · 10024 · 10025

Chelsea, the Flatiron and Gramercy

10001 · 10003 · 10011

Greenwich Village and the West Village

10012 · 10014

SoHo, NoHo and Tribeca

10012 · 10013

Battery Park City and the Financial District

10004 · 10005 · 10007 · 10038 · 10282

Fittings on Madison Avenue

A fitting is how an order begins. Measurements are taken by hand in the room, the cloth is chosen from the bolt rather than from a swatch book, and collar, cuff and pocket details are decided with you. Those measurements become a paper pattern that stays in the shop and belongs only to you. Orders start at four shirts. Bring nothing in particular, though the shoes and the shirt you wear most often will tell the cutter more than any list will.

Read how a shirt is made in four stages or what is measured at a fitting, then call 212.625.3105 or send a note to the shop and the shop will call you back to arrange a time.