There always were street vendors on Canal Street, but not migrant gangs of them like now. I haven't been to that area of NYC for a long time, so it was shocking to me to see what its like now. I used to use Canal St. to get to the San Gennaro festival in Little Italy every year. I stopped going to the festival because it just became way too crowded.

I don't understand why people in the city are okay with the migrant gangs. When I went to NYC, mostly in the '80s, it never looked like that. Now, you can't even walk down the street without weaving in and out of migrant gangs. The sad thing is that DHS cleaned it up and a month later it looks like they never did anything.