More likely it's due to the economic situation. NYC hasn't recovered from
9/11 despite the appearance of normalcy. People need to feed their
families. Notice those people selling the fake goods aren't the type to be
employed by Wall Street, so what else do they have left to do?
"Woody" wrote in message
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>...I am puzzled by the increase in unlicensed street
> vendors since my previous visit in 2001. This time in Battery Park we had
> to run the gauntlet of fake Louis Vuitton handbag sellers, there must have
> been 50+ of them (and plenty elsewhere) and some were quite aggressive.
Why
> is this tolerated as it must be illegal to sell these fakes?
>
> Is it due to the change of Mayor easing up on the great (IHMO) zero
> tolerance policy?
>
> Woody
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