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City Cracks Down on Chinatown Fakes While Putting a Squeeze on Legit Merchantsnew

Very soon, locals say, Canal Street will join Times Square, Astor Place, the Lower East Side, the Garment District and all the other former centers of down-and-dirty capitalist grit that have been safely gentrified. As watch peddler Greg “Heavy” Duval explains, “They want to make this a franchise block.”
New York Press |
Matt Harvey |
01-21-2010 |
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