Dec 4, 2025 · 1.7M views · 📍 Canal Street, New York, NY · Canal and Lafayette, New York, NY · Canal and Broadway, New York, NY
Nick Shirley returns to Canal Street in NYC to confront illegal street vendors selling counterfeit goods, some of whom were previously deported in an ICE raid following his earlier video. He documents vendors fleeing at the sight of his camera, sends his mother out as a test, sets up his own mock stall giving away goods, and interviews locals and a liberal critic about deportations and law and order.
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A vendor states he makes about $700 a day selling counterfeit goods on the street.
“I make 700, I think.”
Stated by street vendor
~ = name reconstructed from garbled auto-captions; verify before quoting.
All figures are as stated in the video — most are allegations, not adjudicated findings. Every dollar figure links to the timestamp where it is said. Extraction QA: The single income claim is accurately quoted and correctly classified. Entities are all supported by the transcript, though 'Sweeenie' is a misspelling of 'Sweeney' and Zohran Mamdani is a fair reconstruction of the garbled 'Zorn/Zohr'. Overall extraction is accurate with no hallucinations.