{"id":655,"date":"2006-02-02T09:33:25","date_gmt":"2006-02-02T17:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/katrina_victims_to_be_given_knockoff_duds.html"},"modified":"2006-02-02T09:33:25","modified_gmt":"2006-02-02T17:33:25","slug":"katrina_victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/katrina_victims.html","title":{"rendered":"Katrina Victims To Be Given Knockoff Duds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katrina victims <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/387807p-329079c.html\">will receive counterfeit items impounded by the New York Police Department<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday that, following a two-year crackdown on counterfeit apparel manufacturers, thousands of knockoffs bearing the trademarks of Rocawear, Phat Farm and Nike will be headed to New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been holding them, waiting for the right opportunity to put them to good use,&#8221; the mayor said.<\/p>\n<p>The T-shirts, pants and sweatshirts, which are being donated with the companies&#8217; permission, were all seized along &#8220;Counterfeit Alley&#8221; &#8212; a stretch of Broadway in the 20s and 30s in Manhattan known for its counterfeit warehouses.<\/p>\n<p>Only seized clothes will be making the trip south. Handbags and other fashion accessories will be destroyed.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katrina victims will receive counterfeit items impounded by the New York Police Department: Mayor Bloomberg announced yesterday that, following a two-year crackdown on counterfeit apparel manufacturers, thousands of knockoffs bearing the trademarks of Rocawear, Phat Farm and Nike will be headed to New Orleans. &#8220;We&#8217;ve been holding them, waiting for the right opportunity to put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-huzzah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","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=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}