The Aporia
The Aporia
Canal Street in New York City has become extremely congested due to an influx of African immigrants, many of whom are undocumented and engage in illegal vending of counterfeit goods like fake Gucci handbags and Rolexes. These vendors have taken over the sidewalks, making pedestrian passage difficult and dangerous. In response to pressure from the political class to protect "the undocumented," the city decriminalized illegal vending in March by turning it into a civil violation handled by the Departments of Sanitation and Consumer and Worker Protection instead of law enforcement. Despite this change, vendors continue to obstruct sidewalks, leading Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Transportation Department to install “super sidewalks” by narrowing Canal Street and adding painted footpaths to try to alleviate the congestion.
City Hall’s decided . . . to give the criminals more room.
the political class obsesses with protecting “the undocumented,”
reducing law enforcement hasn’t reduced lawlessness, so Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Transportation Department is installing “super sidewalks” by narrowing Canal Street and adding painted footpaths.
Illegal street vending is a menace that signals disregard for public order, winks at theft of trademarked property and degrades social trust — but the socialist cadres’ theories say otherwise.
expect City Hall to come up with triple down with something even more foolish, because their theories are the only thing that’s real to them.
