STROLLING CANAL STREET STOP THE CHOP AND THE WESTSIDE HELIPORT FIGHTING THE ILLEGAL VENDORS ON CANAL BLAMING RENTS ON BROKERAGE![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/37-Lispenard-1-420x236.jpg\")
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The Times<\/a> covers the length of Canal Street from east to west to show you \u2014 if you don\u2019t already know \u2014 what\u2019s there in images, text and video. \u201cCanal\u2019s identity is tied up with timeless entropy, untidy humanness and disarranged beauty, reflecting the city around it. Over the centuries, it has gone through many iterations. As it\u2019s once more on the brink of change, what can one street still show us?\u201d<\/p>\n
The Broadsheet<\/a> covers the continuing annoyance that is helicopters over Downtown via a CB1 meeting on the issue: \u201cStop the Chop board member Kenneth Lay contended that flights to and from the West 30th Street Heliport (located in Hudson River Park) that are not related to government, military, law enforcement, media, or lifesaving operations should be drastically curtailed. \u2018We term non-essential helicopters those that are commuter, charter, and sightseeing flights.’\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Counterfeit-sellers-420x315.jpg\")
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The Post<\/a> did a story about the counterfeit vendors on Canal, quoting Wellington Chen, executive director of the Chinatown Partnership Local Development Corporation: \u201cOn certain streets you cannot even pass by,\u201d he said. \u201cYou have to wait for people to squeeze by. It\u2019s a game of cat and mouse. You put pressure on one corner and they move down to the other corner, and the next morning they\u2019re back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gothamist has a story<\/a> about two Tribeca tenants who have accused the rental giant Compass of monopolizing Manhattan rentals and hiding listings from public-facing platforms like StreetEasy.<\/p>\n