Fashion Street
Fashion Street refers to a cluster of over 385 street side clothing shops on MG Road near Azad Maidan and is opposite Bombay Gymkhana, in South Mumbai, India.
The market is located just opposite the VSNL office building at Mahatma Gandhi Road (MG Road). It is a popular tourist destination and is known for bargaining.
In January 2011, as a part of the green drive of BMC along with Fashion Street Shopowners’ Association, the market at Fashion Street stopped the use of plastic bags and switched to a paper bag, now they are again using plastics made by the training workshop of the National Association of the Blind. It’s a very large shopping place in Mumbai.
Lohar Chawl is a commercial locality in Mumbai, India. Lohar means ironsmith in Marathi. According to Fodor’s Essential India, it is a popular market with a wide range of goods for sales. The locality is highly crowded with numerous wholesale outlets. It is also Mumbai’s largest wholesale market for electrical goods.
Colaba Causeway, officially known as Shahid Bhagat Singh Road, is a commercial street, and a major causeway or land link between Colaba and the Old Woman’s Island in the city of Mumbai, India.
It lies close to the Fort area, and to the east of Cuffe Parade, an upmarket neighborhood in South Mumbai, and close by are Mumbai’s famous landmarks, the Gateway of India and Taj Mahal Palace & Tower.
History
By the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Fort area and part of older town were overcrowded, as the island of Colaba, the southern tip of the city, had already been declared a cantonment area in 1796, barring all construction by the civilian population. Soon the boat traffic to the area increased in the next few decades, and several people died due to the capsizing of overcrowded boats, making the construction of the causeway imperative. What also added to the urgency to its construction was that, Mountstuart Elphinstone, Governor of Bombay (1819–1827), had already built the first home on Malabar Hill, following which the rich quickly started moving into the centrally placed, Fort) area.
The Causeway as it is known to the locals was constructed by the British East India Company, during the tenure of Sir Robert Grant (1779–1838) as the governor of Bombay (1835–1838), and its construction completed in 1838, which used the Old Woman’s Island as a part of it; with this, the last two islands of Colaba and Old Woman’s Island (out of the Seven Islands of Bombay), which were first taken in 1675, got connected with the mainland of Bombay. Until 1839, Colaba was accessible only during the low tide, though soon it saw rapid development in the area, especially after the construction of the Cotton Exchange at Cotton Green in 1844. The Causeway was later further widened in 1861 and 1863.
Horse-drawn tram-cars were introduced here, in 1873 by Stearns and Kitteredge, for their offices on the west side of the Causeway, where the Electric House now stands.
