That the lineup of sidewalk peddlers at ground zero brings a certain tackiness would seem indisputable.

In the vicinity of Chinatown where sidewalk peddlers, vegetable wholesalers and open-air food markets conduct business with little regard for the law, the quality of life keeps declining.

A sidewalk peddler selling sunglasses had set up shop at the corner of Seventh Avenue and 57th Street.

Property owners formed a business improvement district last year to clean up litter and graffiti and post security guards to chase away sidewalk peddlers, three-card-monte con artists and pickpockets.

Once found only under water, goggles are making a splash on the street, sold alongside sunglasses and Yankees caps by sidewalk peddlers.

Suddenly the ludicrous comedy of Tod's part as a sidewalk peddler turns into a tragedy.

Curiosity seekers, Broadway idlers, sidewalk peddlers, all a cheap lot who either believe the claims of a charlatan or who would like to copy his work.

Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown (Abbott and Costello) are sidewalk peddlers who hawk neckties out of a suitcase.

The illegal vendors, mostly poor immigrants, now account for 10 of every 11 sidewalk peddlers and cost the city as much as $300 million a year in unpaid sales taxes, officials said.

Luciano Moresco said his upscale leather and shoe chain, A. Testoni, resisted moving to Fifth Avenue until last year because of the sidewalk peddlers.