Clean up on Canal Street: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: ICE brokers detaining a number of unlawful venders and protesters on Canal Street in Chinatown.
Forgive me if I’ve no compassion for unlawful distributors hawking knockoffs produced by slave labor in China, in entrance of shops manned by legal immigrants paying taxes and rent (“ICE’s Good Work on Canal Street,” Editorial, Oct. 23).
To add insult to harm, the miscreants have the audacity to do it blocks away from ICE headquarters.
Jake McNicholas
Whitestone
I lived within the Canal Street space for over 20 years. This is nothing new. Vendors promoting knockoffs blanket the sidewalks, making it onerous to maneuver.
NYPD officers show up sometimes, arrest the distributors and confiscate items, and the distributors are back the following day.
The police ought to show up as quickly as they reappear and confiscate the knockoffs instantly. Arresting them is a waste of time — take the products.
Maria Musolino
Staten Island
Having lived blocks away from Canal Street for 70 years, it baffles me why anybody wouldn’t need the unlawful distributors off the road. The filth and the congestion was horrible.
Lorraine Fittipaldi
Apollo Beach, Fla.
Get opinions and commentary from our columnists
Subscribe to our every day Post Opinion publication!
Thanks for signing up!
Wow, thanks for holding us up to date on the key ICE effort arresting the “dangerous” criminals on Canal Street. Seriously?
Canal Street, with its avenue crew of sellers of knock-off merchandise, is a vacationer vacation spot. I might hardly say the distributors are affecting the brick-and-mortar shops promoting the true objects. Real Birkins and Rolexes are offered on the Hermès store and high-end jewellery shops on Madison Avenue, actually not on Canal Street.
“A nest of filth and violence”? Hardly. It’s the identical outdated hustle and bustle that’s been on that avenue for many years.
Adding in the truth that 4 of the people arrested had been American residents, I might say this maneuver was certainly a massive bust.
Carol Puttre-Czyz
Manhattan
The Issue: Former ESPN star Sam Ponder’s complaints about transgender athletes.
In The Post’s front-page story, former ESPN commentator Sam Ponder justifiably complains that her daughter shouldn’t should compete in basketball (or in every other sport) in opposition to a “natural born boy” (“Ex-ESPN star calls foul,” Oct. 22).
Later within the article, the time period “transgender athletes” is employed. Why pander to the biologically ignorant with such phrases? Boys presenting as ladies had been born boys, are nonetheless boys and at all times shall be male.
Sam Ponder is totally right: the issue lies with the dad and mom who buy into this “progressive” rubbish.
May she proceed to keep up “the good fight” towards re-establishing sanity on this nation.
Anthony Parks
Garden City
The whole world is conscious of the risks of girls competing with organic males on the earth of sports activities.
Why does all the feminist motion stay silent as girls grow to be victims of such brutalities? Or is it not politically useful to stand up to the cowardly leaders who enable this barbarity to proceed?
I’m sure many school and high-school ladies have been badly injured competing in opposition to males who determine as girls and now we have seen enough. The time to behave is now earlier than a tragic second happens.
Nicholas Maffei
Yonkers
Want to weigh in on at present’s tales? Send your ideas (alongside together with your full identify and metropolis of residence) to letters@nypost.com. Letters are subject to enhancing for readability, size, accuracy, and elegance.
