Garrett drove past pushcart vendors selling backpacks and phone accessories and knockoff purses on the sidewalks.

The shops were mostly closed, and the pushcart vendors were packing up their suspenders and cheap trousers, their pots and pans.

In the 1920s and 1930s, mobster Ciro Terranova wasn't subtle in his extortion of the pushcart vendors in Manhattan's East Harlem and elsewhere.