{"id":2245,"date":"2007-04-04T10:29:52","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T18:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/04\/theyll_knock_off_a_couple_of_hours_browsing.html"},"modified":"2007-04-04T10:29:52","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T18:29:52","slug":"theyll_knock_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/04\/theyll_knock_of.html","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;ll Knock Off A Couple Of Hours Browsing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/04042007\/news\/regionalnews\/knockoff_shock_for_tourists_regionalnews_larry_celona_and_tatiana_deligiannakis.htm\">here&#8217;s a story to tell the folks back home in Kansas<\/a> (or London* or Ireland** or Moscow***, as the case may be):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Twelve tourists on a counterfeit-merchandise buying spree were holed up for more than two hours in the basement of a Chinatown building during a police raid &#8212; forbidden to flee by the peddlers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The workers said, &#8216;The cops are outside. You can&#8217;t leave,'&#8221; said a law-enforcement source.<\/p>\n<p>Midtown North detectives raided 218 Centre St. at about 2 p.m., finding thousands of knockoff designer bags, wallets, shirts and umbrellas &#8212; and a handful of customers.<\/p>\n<p>As cops catalogued the stash, a Fifth Precinct cop alerted them of a call about people being held against their will in the basement.<\/p>\n<p>There, cops found tourists from Spain, Georgia and Florida, three peddlers and phony Rolex and Cartier watches.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/12\/mind_the_gap_an.html\">*<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nycvisit.com\/content\/index.cfm?pagePkey=1737\">**<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/tijuana_on_the.html\">***<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now here&#8217;s a story to tell the folks back home in Kansas (or London* or Ireland** or Moscow***, as the case may be): Twelve tourists on a counterfeit-merchandise buying spree were holed up for more than two hours in the basement of a Chinatown building during a police raid &#8212; forbidden to flee by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new_york_new_york_its_a_wonderful_town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}