Since Sanitation took the street vending enforcement reins, the department has confiscated abandoned or non-compliant material from street vendors in 228 cases, and has donated 32,220 pounds of food and composted another 3,880 pounds.
En el primer trimestre de este año, el Departamento de Protección al Consumidor y al Trabajador (DCWP por sus siglas en inglés) de la ciudad emitió 414 multas a vendedores ambulantes en la ciudad. La agencia ya no lidera la inspección de vendedores desde el 1 de abril, fecha en que el Departamento de Sanidad (DSNY por sus siglas en inglés) empezó a hacerse cargo de estas funciones.
En 2019, cuando la policía era el único ejecutor, la policía de Nueva York emitió 1.812 multas frente a 2.499 en los primeros nueve meses de este año, con casi la mitad (48,6 por ciento) repartidas en el último trimestre. En solo nueve meses, la policía de Nueva York y el Departamento de Protección al Consumidor y al Trabajador (DCWP, por sus siglas en inglés) emitieron 3884 multas a vendedores, más del doble de la cantidad de multas emitidas en 2019.
DCWP y NYPD emitieron 2.427 multas a vendedores ambulantes durante el periodo que comprende junio 2021 y mayo 2022, lo que significa un aumento del 33 por ciento en comparación con 2019, cuando la policía emitió 1.609 multas.
Nepal’s government is launching a “Visit Nepal 2020” publicity campaign that aims to draw at least 2 million tourists to the country next year, Everest Times reports.
‘We need to create our own voice, we need to create our way of doing journalism,’ says QueensLatino director Javier Castaño, who founded the Spanish-language local news outlet nearly a decade ago.
Nepali Bhanccha Ghar, a Nepali restaurant in Jackson Heights, won the annual food event, which aims to showcase the neighborhood’s South Asian communities and cultures, Everest Times reports.
Following the August slaying, the Mayor’s Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence, in collaboration with a number of organizations, began carrying out outreach activities at nearly 50 beauty salons in Jackson Heights to let residents know about the resources available to victims and survivors.
Queens Community Board 3, where more than half of the population is foreign-born, recently start a new committee to address the needs of the neighborhood’s immigrant residents.
New parking restrictions on Roosevelt Avenue are hurting Queens businesses, making it harder for customers to park, workers say. “They come in, they buy coffee, and they get a ticket,” one local shop worker said.
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