{"id":60569,"date":"2026-02-05T07:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T07:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=60569"},"modified":"2026-02-05T14:51:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:51:46","slug":"new-york-street-scenes-taking-a-peek-dodgy-canal-st-traders-pizza-and-foam-rubber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/new-york-street-scenes-taking-a-peek-dodgy-canal-st-traders-pizza-and-foam-rubber\/","title":{"rendered":"New York street scenes: taking a peek, dodgy Canal St traders, pizza and foam rubber"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s a short selection of eight photos taken around Lower Manhattan during a recent NY visit.<\/p>\n

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Late night pizza.<\/p>\n

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Canal Street is the place to go if you’re after counterfeit goods, with traders displaying their dodgy wares on sheets on the pavement.<\/p>\n

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The sheets come in handy for scooping up the goods fast and making a high speed wheeled getaway once the feds are spotted.<\/p>\n

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Canal Rubber has been trading from the same location since 1954.<\/p>\n

It’s great to see the old sign still intact, although I’m tempted to scale the frontage with a bit of black tape to put in that damn missing apostrophe.<\/p>\n

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Subway view.<\/p>\n

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Night scene.<\/p>\n

See more images<\/h4>\n