City, Featured - Wednesday, December 3, 2008 23:12 - 18 Comments
A Sad Day for Fake Designer Handbags: Chinatown’s Purse Vendors Close
“Prada? Gucci? Handbag, handbag, you want handbag?” These songs from the famed Chinatown Canal street purse hawkers are no more: the shopkeepers and their underground loot had a surprise visit from the NYPD early Tuesday morning.
A whole slew of the hole in the wall establishments jam-packed with Dolce & Gabbana knock-offs in the front, and secret walls that lead you to a world of near perfect replicas in the back were barricaded off by the police while they searched the premises.
