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NYC Enforcement Against Street Vendors Picks Up Again After Pandemic Lull

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  • Robert Lederman
    Posted September 8, 2021 at 8:13 pm

    The Street Vendor Project (SVP) wrote the law this article is about, intro #1116. Included in it was exactly this new enforcement by a new city agency. They spent years lobbying for it. It has harmed,not helped, the entire vending community, especially the undocumented vendors SVP pretends to be representing. Now SVP wants to pretend its the mayors fault or the callousness of the nypd that there is this new enforcement agency. SVP by this same law put the BIDs in charge of all vending decisions via an oversight panel.

  • Armando Crescenzi
    Posted September 8, 2021 at 11:18 pm

    In light of Mayor DiBlasio’s several announcements removing the NYPD from street vending enforcement, the city should dismiss all of the 424 vending tickets issued by police. The mayor’s announcements and other executive orders, appeared to authorize people to street vend.

  • Panda
    Posted September 19, 2021 at 9:43 pm

    “Authorities had eased up on vendor enforcement during the pandemic, but that has changed in recent months: Between June 1 and Aug. 31, DCWP conducted 1,508 city street vending inspections and issued 424 tickets for violations including, among many others, vendors not being licensed. That figure slightly surpasses the quarterly average of civil vending summonses issued by the NYPD in 2019: 402“

    What is missing here is that the NYPD is a force of 35k. A force of 35k issues 402 tickets in a quarter. What does that tell you? That tells you that vending enforcement was a very low priority for the NYPD. But the advocate cries foul as if the NYPD were stomping on vendors left and right. And now they advocated for a unit that tickets vendors at a much higher rate.

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