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“Everybody they arrested has the chance of having a whole family behind them, and they’re ripping it apart,” one vendor says.
The arrests sparked chaos on Canal Street. Advocates are calling it political theater, and city leaders say they had no involvement in the operation.
The busy crosstown corridor is notorious for gridlocked traffic, deadly crashes and sidewalks packed with street vendors.
Officers responded at the corner of Canal and Church streets just after 1 p.m. on Friday.
The gunman fled the scene and has not been identified, the NYPD says.
An investigation into a phenomenon that oozes New York.
As Bruce Springsteen once sang, "Everything dies baby, that's a fact—but maybe everything that dies one day comes back to life as luxury housing."
This happened at the Canal Street subway station.
Fried chicken lovers still have Williamsburg though.
The teen shoved the drunk man to safety under the lip of the train platform.