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A week after federal agents arrested sellers on Canal Street during an immigration sweep, street vendors teamed up with delivery workers to push for better conditions and more protections in…

ByDaniel Parra 1Comment

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Jul 2025

Government Immigration Transportation

How NYC’s Latest Budget Impacts Immigrant Communities

The spending plan includes a funding boost for immigration legal services, which one advocate called “an important victory.” Another initiative to launch a new department to regulate e-bikes has sparked…

ByDaniel Parra

ByVictoria Moran Garcia 3Comments

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May 2025

Economy Featured Immigration Labor

NYC Officials Back More Street Vendor Permits, But Resist Lifting Longtime Cap

For decades, the number of street vendors has far exceeded the number of permits that allow them to set up shop on New York City streets. A City Council bill…

ByDaniel Parra 4Comments

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May 2025

Economy Labor Land Use and Development Opinion Transportation

Opinion: A Balanced Approach to Street Vending

“In a time when immigrants and workers are targeted by executive orders at both the city and federal levels, it is crucial that the New York City Council do everything…

ByPierina Ana Sanchez 2Comments

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Mar 2025

Featured Government Immigration In Depth Investigations Labor Transportation

NYC Issued Over 10,000 Street Vendor Tickets, Confiscated Tons of Food in 2024

The number of NYPD tickets in 2024 was five times higher than in 2019, when the police were the primary enforcers of vendor rules before the pandemic hit and the…

ByDaniel Parra 24Comments

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Jan 2025

Government Immigration Justice Labor Opinion

Opinion: Operation Restore Roosevelt Failed Queens

“Operation Restore Roosevelt deflects the anger and fear of other working-class New Yorkers onto disabled people, queer people, or immigrants trying to survive in an increasingly expensive city.”

ByLaura Torlaschi 3Comments

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May 2024

Economy Government Land Use and Development Opinion Transportation

Opinion: Proposed Vending Bill Would Hamper City’s Sidewalks

“Vending is a commercial enterprise that creates private income. Sidewalks are for all of us, and until now the city has sought to ensure that all those items that encroach…

ByErin Piscopink

ByRobert J. Benfatto 0Comments

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Dec 2023

Government Labor Transportation

Lawmakers Seek More Changes to NYC’s Street Vending Rules

Two years after the passage of Local Law 18—intended to overhaul street vending regulations and add hundreds of additional licenses to the market each year—councilmembers are weighing another package of…

ByJeanmarie Evelly 1Comment

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Aug 2023

Economy Government Labor News

In First Months of Street Vendor Enforcement, Sanitation Seized—Then Donated—32,220 Pounds of Food

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…

ByDaniel Parra 1Comment

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Apr 2023

Government Transportation

South Bronx Street Vendors Topped City’s Inspection List in Final Months of DCWP Enforcement

In the first quarter of this year, the city’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) issued 414 tickets to street vendors. The agency is no longer leading vendor enforcement…

ByDaniel Parra 0Comments

NYC Delivery Workers & Street Vendors Seek Stronger Protections After ICE’s Canal Street Raid