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Socialist fix for Canal Street vendors: Give the criminals more room

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Illegal vendors have turned Canal Street near-impassable, so City Hall’s decided . . . to give the criminals more room.

That pretty well sums up this crew’s approach to public disorder.

Canal Street, long known as an unofficial outlet mall for knock-off luxury goods like fake Gucci handbags or Rolexes, has become especially clogged with foot traffic since the Biden-era migrant boom.

Mostly African, mostly illegal, immigrants — who threaten journalists and beat up competitors — now eat up every available square inch of sidewalk space with their bedsheet displays of counterfeit (or stolen) merchandise,........

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