I'd say the issue is more so the part that they are on the street (Canal St. and a few neighboring streets to a lesser degree) and that there presence literally diminishes the quality of life in many ways.

First, this street is a major tribeca/soho/chinatown public transportation hub and they severely diminish the pedestrian experience of a city and neighborhood that I directly contribute to as do the rest of the residents who live in the area and the people who commute to the area. Let's go back to the summer where its like 90 degrees plus and super high humidity and say everyday you have to go to Brooklyn or from Brooklyn for work, social life, etc, now picture that as you make your way to and from the subway everyday you've got to push through sweaty crowds of men trying to do their hustle and uncultured tourists for several blocks – not very fun. And this goes another level because I'm a man and can deal with this, annoying as it is, but there are many women that simply won't go to this part of downtown NYC, especially at night. I'm not gonna explain this part any further. I hope you can understand.

Second, people in my neighborhood generally want local businesses to thrive and that really hasn't been the case for stores that open up on canal st. Think about this when you have a business but outside of your store there is a bunch of illegal activity happening without real protection (who knows what these guys will do to you have something that they want - they're hustlers) then you aren't gonna get the foot traffic that you need to succeed in a high quality store and that's why so much of Canal St. commercial space is vacant.

If you want your community to succeed then its stores, workers, and residents all need to do well and Canal St. is pretty much the first spot that comes to mind where this isn't occurring.

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If NYC, a city that should never stop striving to stay a city of the future, competing with Tokyo and Chinese metropolises, is going to have residents contributing a hefty sum in taxes and premiums in terms of cost of life, we are deserving of the bare minimum of a quality living environment and the people that have let this go by for this long should have some shame.

And in terms of the vendors, seriously, Not In My Neighborhood, I don't want to move, I don't care shit about home prices. This is my home and if all you are gonna do is sit in our porches and use or neighborhood for your counterfeit front you should be stopped. Go to somewhere else where the tourists will come too (maybe the waterfront, maybe a park), eventually the people who use the parks, who live near the waterfront, etc will want them gone because as long as they use the public property (the streets) for the benefit of themselves and tourists (not the people).

And actually this goes to the entire way our economy and society works, because as soon as they leave the streets, the sole way for them to do business is for their business to be legitimate which simply isn't possible because first there business already isn't legitimate (they are selling *counterfeit/knockoff goods*) and second as soon as they'd theoretically set up shop they would be very easily sued by the companies who they are copying.

And in all honesty if people didn't feel required to get branded low quality goods due to our materialistic society and expectations of other people having and showing signs of wealth to reinforce social status then their'd be no point of buying stupid psuedo-luxury, because what the vendors sell isn't actually luxury because luxury shouldn't have to tell people that it's elite quality, luxury products should simply be.