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Opinion: City’s Plan to Expand Street Vendor Permits Must Protect Our Brick-and-Mortars, Too

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  • Harris C. Bulow
    Posted February 5, 2021 at 10:39 am

    Could not agree more! Politicians involved in this legislation demonstrate 1) fundamental misunderstanding NYC economics, 2) disrespect to the outer boroughs and 3) disregard public health.

    1) We have a major budget shortfall in NYC. Brick and Mortar tenants pay taxes and pay a significant share of real estate taxes, either through rent or directly. What percentage of tax is paid, by carts…cant be much? How much of the money spent at carts actually makes it to taxation, considering the predilection for cash (based on observation)?

    2) Do we really need more cart permits in Queens or the other boroughs? I never heard my local officials calling for it, and the ones in the streets that already are clogged are legal (I live in Forest Hills and frequently around BK, BX and SI).

    3) Last, food health quality on most carts deplorable, especially in comparison to that in restaurants. Quick story, I worked at 853 Broadway for 7 years, and there was a cart with meat skewers. The cart sat in front of a bus stop and vented out through a rear window. For years, I watched the bus exhaust (curved to perfectly) waft its exhaust mist, through the rear window, over the meat. I saw many, what appeared to be mostly tourists (this is at the corner across from Union Square), purchasing that meat.

    This is, of course, not to say that some carts are not very clean.

    SACK THE IDIOT POLITICIANS OR RISK LONG TERM DECLINE OF OUR METROPOLIS!

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