Bag sellers

A highlight of living in midtown is the variety of "incidents" one may encounter.
Passing through the back end of the Crowne Plaza Hotel "drive through" makes a shortcut between 48th and 49th and at the moment there is construction work going on in the building and the car driveway is blocked off.
Throughout the streets of NYC there are back room illegal sellers of watches, handbags or probably anything you may want or have never wanted. Today as I walked through on my way to the #1 train there skulking around the corner was a bag seller. He had the requisite reinforced large cardboard box- reinforced with packaging tape. He had taken from inside the box was the large white cloth holding the bags for sale. The group of women were fossicking through the items for sale making a selection.
I felt a bit like an undercover cop trying to get the photo but it is a sight one sees on many street corner and I'm glad I captured it.
Just around the corner on the corner of Broadway and 49th Street there was an "established" stall selling similar if not the same bags- legally and probably for the same price.