Gus Cobos
07-08-2009, 05:09 AM
This busy street is known as the famous Canal Street; the chaotic home to counterfeit goods and cut price bargains. Visitors keen to find a piece of untamed New York should check out Canal Street, in lower Manhattan. Canal Street is a mecca for counterfeit handbags, suspect jewellery, fake Rolex watches, knocked off goods and other dodgy merchandise, there's an element of the old Wild West to be found here.
Canal Street is a major New York thoroughfare, connecting lower Manhattan to New Jersey in the west (via the Holland Tunnel) and Brooklyn in the east (via the Manhattan Bridge). It's also well served by several subway stations a long its east-west route.
The street takes its name from an old canal that was dug to drain the contaminated Collect Pond into the Hudson River in the early 1800s. After the pond was filled in 1811, the street was built along its angled route. If you plan on visiting New York City, I highly recommend this attraction...:cool:
Canal Street is a major New York thoroughfare, connecting lower Manhattan to New Jersey in the west (via the Holland Tunnel) and Brooklyn in the east (via the Manhattan Bridge). It's also well served by several subway stations a long its east-west route.
The street takes its name from an old canal that was dug to drain the contaminated Collect Pond into the Hudson River in the early 1800s. After the pond was filled in 1811, the street was built along its angled route. If you plan on visiting New York City, I highly recommend this attraction...:cool: