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Designers at the company quickly "approximate" styles of sneakers, sandals and loafers soon after they hit the street in New York, London or Amsterdam.

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Where "illegal hotels" have been raided in Amsterdam, tourists have sometimes been turfed out on to the street.

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George Chakiris, who played Bernardo, leader of the Puerto Rican gang, the Sharks, in the film, said in a phone interview last week that its prologue was shot at two Manhattan locations, at 68th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, slightly north of where Avery Fisher Hall, home of the New York Philharmonic, stands today, and in a schoolyard at 110th Street and Second Avenue.

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