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“The NYPD recognizes that during the holidays there will be an increase in the sale of counterfeit goods,” a department spokesperson said in a statement. One Midtown police source said the recent increase in knock-off vendors on the two-block strip was roughly similar to last year during the holiday season.

The flagrant counterfeit sales were happening within blocks of police officers who have been assigned to direct traffic and manage holiday crowds. Knock-off vendors are selling the bags under the noses of police, who are stationed nearby for crowd control. “We complain to the police department but that’s all we can do,” he said of lines of buyers crowding sidewalks. One vendor said the two-block strip is a hotspot for targeting tourists during the busy shopping season, while another was seen scrambling to hide merchandise as a police officer walked by.Ī security guard at the skyscraper 1251 Sixth Avenue said he’d noticed a “100%” uptick in the vendors in the area in recent weeks. Fake designer purses include knock-offs of Prada and Louis Vuitton. And Cassandre Saint Laurent Matelasse chain wallets, which cost $1,790, were $40. The knock-offs included a medium Dior Book Totes, which cost $3,500 when real, that one vendor had priced at $70 to $80.Ĭlassic brown Louis Vuitton Neverfull Totes, which cost $2,100 in stores, were going for $70 a pop. Though legitimate versions of the handbags cost thousands of dollars, the fakes - which were sometimes spread out blankets on the ground - were going for $40 to $80 on the street when The Post took inventory Wednesday night. She added, “This is really questionable, ethically.” Fake designer purse vendors have set up shop on a two-block strip in Midtown. “Some of it’s fake and some of it’s real but people don’t really know what they’re buying.” “They’re here every year, more and more everyday it seems,” said an employee of Madison Square Garden, who commutes through the busy strip of Midtown. The bogus bag sellers appear to have increased in recent weeks, clogging the sidewalk with lines of deal-hunters - often right under the noses of police officers, who are stationed nearby for crowd control. It’s just a sign of disorder,” a Manhattan cop said. It used to only be on Canal, now it’s Uptown. “It’s a mess, people tripping over bags and being hustled.

The streets of New York are going to hell in a fake Prada handbasket.ĭozens of bogus designer purse peddlers have turned the area around Rockefeller Center into a congestion-clogged black market - as they hawk knock-off bags to tourists just weeks after cops cleaned up Lower Manhattan with a $10 million counterfeit swag bust.Īt least 30 vendors have set up shop on the sidewalks between 48th and 50th Streets on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan to sell phony Louis Vuitton, Prada and Dior handbags and clutches, The Post has learned. More than $10M in ‘high-end’ knock-offs seized in Lower Manhattan Posh NYC wine store fined $100K for fake bourbon sales - but hasn’t fired anybody over scandal US warns about fake, dangerous pills being sold in MexicoĨ2-year-old accused of selling $800K in fake cards, including rookie Jordans