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#17 Review this Street
  • StreetVIBE 3.5/5
  • StreetWIRED 3/5
  • StreetHEALTH 2.5/5
  • StreetVALUE 4.5/5
  • StreetESSENTIALS 4/5

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  • Couples (29%)
  • Families with kids (21%)
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Anemone10
Level 3

Great Shopping, but Many Crowds!

By Anemone10 on Oct 24, 2008
4/5
The best time to walk through Canal Street if your goal is to actually just walk through it is at 6am, before all of the stores open. Once the merchants open up to their masses, the streets are teeming with people trying to score a bargain bag or perfume. This...
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friedclam
Level 3

Multi-cultural, great food, busy .....

By friedclam on Aug 31, 2008
4/5
Plan to spend the day. You get to go through Chinatown, enjoy lunch at any of the many choices of excellent Chinese places. Canal will take you to Little Italy, where you can have the best thin-crust pizza and a cannoli. Along the way, you shop your head off....
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jsoto625
Level 2

Very crowded but great bargains

By jsoto625 on Aug 31, 2008
5/5
Canal strreet is always the place I went to for electronics. They have everythign you need there at prices you thought were impossible to find. When I needed a scientific then a graphic calculator and was told tit would cost about 200 dollars, my mother took m...
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Jailei
Level 2

Great Deals & Tourist Trap

By Jailei on Aug 31, 2008
3/5
During the fall I usually go to Canal Street a lot. I do a lot of fabrication for work, so it's the best place to go in Manhattan to get discounted plastic, rubber, and art materials. It's pretty much one-stop shopping if you're looking to buy those kinds of...
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rockandrolltime
Level 2

Props for being friendly to visitors while remaining authentic

By rockandrolltime on Aug 29, 2008
3/5
Perhaps the ONLY street in New York that I think is great for visitors and locals. Tourists love to gawk at the crappy merchandise on stands and go home with stories about going to the backs of stalls on Canal Street. But seriously, this street offers great, d...
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Macsizzle
Level 5

Canal Street, Lafayette Street

By Macsizzle on Jun 07, 2008
5/5
The heart of Chinatown, this is a great place to buy a cheap handbag, a good knock-off, sunglasses, watches, and anything your heart desires, for under 20 dollars. A friend of mine was recently coerced into the backseat of a woman’s car after being bidden by t...
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ChrisTurk
Level 3

oy, more shopping

By ChrisTurk on May 16, 2008
4/5
Manhattan is a big shopping mall. You can buy anything if you know the right place. Fortunately most of it doesn't feel super commercial so I can deal with it. While you're on Canal (undoubtedly shopping) if you get as far over as Broadway avoid the far too...
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jovnyc
Level 2

Highlights and Lowlights of Canal St.

By jovnyc on May 12, 2008
3/5
So this is definitely the street to avoid if you are a claustrophobic and/or germaphobic. I won't kid you, the streets are filthy and smelly. Walking is only a little more difficult here than Time Square. However, eating here is fun if you know where to go....
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Foxxxy
Level 2

Canal Street is Real New York

By Foxxxy on May 11, 2008
5/5
Canal Street is the long, exciting edge of New York's Chinatown and it's one of my favorite bargain hunting streets.

There are so many tiny perfume and fashion shops on Canal that it's difficult to visit them all on the same day. Luckily there are also eno...
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dmbfan0903
Level 1

Knock Offs Galore

By dmbfan0903 on May 04, 2008
5/5
At the heart of what China Town, New york city is, Canal St is a must visit. You can get anything here from designer bags, clothes, jewelry and perfumes. Always crowded, especially in the summer, so be ready.
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