After watching a while the Macy's parade, we got the subway to Canal Street station, just on the border between the neighborhoods of Tribeca, Chinatown and Soho.
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Just outside the subway station at Canal Street, we started to walk towards the left, led by the first stores with Chinese characters.
we were not intending to buy unless he saw any really good imitation, but in the windows or in the store, had no visible bags, clothing or belts imitation of the expensive brands, but we read by questioned on internet for them if you taught them, so that's what we did, ask for a particular model of Gucci bag or brand of the same level and the clerk gave us a signal that we followed.
We reached the end of the store and suddenly pulls a perch of one of the displays of clothing and opens a door that invites us to pass.
went in and we walk through boxes stacked so it looks like the store.
we went down stairs and a room about 2x2 meters, with more stacked boxes and walls covered in sheets.
All this road does talking with a walkie talkie in Chinese with someone who looks like he is giving directions from the other side.
waited for about 3 minutes in this tiny room and when we began to think strange things, from behind one of the sheets on the wall, a separate Chinese calls us to enter through another secret door that opens by pulling a rope soil looked like a piece of string pulled, but actually was the "mechanism" for opening the access door to a room about 10 meters long by about 3 as wide where they had exposed a lot of bags, belts and more a snap of the most exclusive brands.
After this store, we entered another 2 or 3, more than anything in plan bet to see who could guess what was the secret door to the "lavish party" Store.
the end, someone in the group bought a bag of imitation at a very good price, more than a 60% discount on the original, but 100% identical to the truth.
After entering these illegal underworld of Chinatown shops, follow daylight walking down Canal Street and seeing the windows in which imitation watches are exhibited or fish stores and board where they had the typical Peking duck hanging in the windows and many more products that stood out.
few streets later, we come to Mulberry Street, where he set up a market fruit and vegetables in the selling of certain products not seen in life.
the next street we passed is Mott Street, which as you can see in the picture, we move completely to China. All signs, posters and 90% of the pedestrians are Chinese, so if someone then goes on to say that we were in Beijing or Shanghai instead of New York, would have believed him without hesitation.
continue to Confucius Plaza, where is the arch through which you access the Manhattan bridge.
A then go down a little to Hester Street Bowery, where they begin to see the few buildings in Little Italy that have not succumbed to the expansion of nearby Chinatown.
take this amount of restaurants and fast food outlets in the area to regain strength, so we entered a tiny china food restaurant where we ate very well for little money, and best of all was the contrast of eating in the heart of Little Italy in one of the many local Chinese have been invading the Italian stronghold of Manhattan to reduce it to a couple of streets.
After lunch, we returned Canal Street to see stores across the street we had left without seeing the morning as we walked to the next neighborhood of the city that we had to visit Soho.
We were walking up to Greene Street, although it may rise above any street as Mercer Street and of course, Broadway.
Top wandering this area is going to visit the many shops there and to discover the facades with metal ladders that have become so well known in this neighborhood.
During the decades of 60 and 70, this was an area dedicated to artists and art galleries, which became an area degraded of the city occupied by abandoned factories into lofts and spacious galleries.
This meant that the rents will skyrocket, thus taking most galleries and artists and converting the area, once again, to make way for restaurants, fashion shops and homes of the new city yuppies .
At the height of Broome Street, on the right we see a building that catches our attention.
do not know if a building is important, use it or anything, but its facade is one of the most spectacular of all the SoHo and probably the entire city of New York. Is located at the intersection of Broome Street to Broadway.
From here we walked down Broadway, where many shops are concentrated in the most prestigious brands located in the famous buildings with the fire escape on the facade.
Brodaway In this section, there are several buildings that make a real outdoor architectural museum. Among them, perhaps the best known is the Little Singer Building, Art Deco style and was owned by the owner of the famous brand of Singer sewing machines.
Before leaving, we passed the door of Angelika Film Center & Café, a unique building that has 6 rooms in which films are independent films.
From here, continue walking through Greenwich Village, a residential area like Harlem with tree-lined streets and low-rise buildings where strangely there is no traffic overwhelmed the rest of the city.
If you want to enjoy a jazz concert, this is your area, because here is where many of the most important jazz clubs in the city.
Right in the middle of this quarter and marking the beginning of 5 th avenue, we find the Washington Square Park, a small park full of squirrels and is home to the triumphal arch dedicated to George Washington.
Before ending our way through Greenwich Village, we passed the Jefferson Market Garden, a small park in which stands the building that houses the library, a former women's jail and courthouse, the Jefferson Market Library .
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