Press

• City to street vendor scofflaws: Have we got a deal for you, NY Post, December 20, 2010
• City So Desperate to Collect Street Vendor Fines, Its Reducing Them, Village Voice Blog, December 20, 2010
• NYC Agency: street vendor rules costly, confusing, Associated Press, November 10, 2010
• NYC owed millions in street vendor fines,  Metro, November 9, 2010
• A street vendor takes the biggest step, from 59th Street to the indoors,  New York Times, September 12, 2010
• When Vendors Can’t Sample Their Wares, WSJ Metropolis, August 16, 2010
• Food Truck Saga: Vendors Band Together, Bring in NYC Group for Support, Jersey City Independent, August 13, 2010
• Hot dog vendor who served Mayor Bloomberg says city relishes fining carts, NY Daily News, July 23, 2010
• Street Vendors Sweat it Out, New York 1, July 8, 2010
• Street Meat Theater: Activists Fight Food Truck Legislation, Wall Street Journal Metropolis, June 15, 2010
• Vendors Host City’s First Pushcart Market, New York 1, June 11, 2010
• Street Fair Vendors Kick the Corporations, Crains New York, June 10, 2010
• Vendor, Vidi, Vici! Courier Life, May 25, 2010
• Out of Cash? City Vendors Start Accepting Plastic, WSJ Metropolis, May 19, 2010
• NYC vendors are eyes and ears on the street, Business Week, May 5, 2010
• New Rule Change Could Force Art Vendors Out of Battery Park, Tribeca Trib, May 1, 2010
• Vendor Rules Promise Less Art, More Cupcakes in City Parks, Gotham Gazette, April 2010
• Street Vendors Protest Stifling Regulations — and Start to Organize, In These Times, March 3, 2010
• Street Vendors Stand Up for Bathroom Rights, Gothamist, February 24, 2010
• Mohammed Shirajul Islam, Vendor Canned for Bathroom Break, Speaks at Rally, Village Voice Blog, February 23, 2010
• Bathroom Rule Rankles Vendors, NY Times Cityroom, February 23, 2010
• City to Street Vendors: Urine Big Trouble, NY Post, February 23, 2010

 2009 and prior (partial listing)  

• “Why the raw deal for food vendors” New York Daily News, October 29, 2009
• “In Rally, Street Vendors Accuse Police of Harassment” New York Times, October 27, 2009
• “No persiga a los vendedadores callejeros / Don’t persecute street vendors” El Diario, October 27, 2009
• “Food vendors protest police harassment at SUNY Downstate Hospital site” New York Daily News, October 14, 2009
• “Answers About New York’s Street Vendors” New York Times, October 7, 2009
• “Vendy Vidi Vici,” Gourmet Magazine, September 28, 2009
• “Street Vendor Crackdown” WNYC Brian Lehrer Show, August 28, 2009
• “Three Best Ways to Start a Food Truck Business” Wall Street Journal, August 20, 2009
• “More permits, please” New York Times Letter to the Editor, July 7, 2009
• “Six Arrested on Permit-Fraud Charges” New York Times, June 30, 2009
• Trials and hot dog tribulations in the street vending trade” Village Voice, June 23, 2009
• “Permits, Please” The Indypendent, May 15-June 4, 2009
• “Let more budding businesses set up shop on city sidewalks” New York Daily News, May 10, 2009
• “Street Vending as a Way to Ease Joblessness“ New York Times City Room, April 29, 2009
• “Visual Aids for the Pushcart World” New York Times: Neighborhood Report, April 5, 2009
• “Cut through red tape to create jobs” Crains New York Business, January 18, 2009
• “Sobre ruedas mercado negro de permisos de carritos” El Diario, July 8, 2008 “Black Market for Food Vendor Permits” (English translation)
• “Vendor gets five tickets for standing up for his rights” Sing Tao Daily, June 28 2008
• “Everyone Loves Tony” New York Observer, June 6, 2008
• “Customers rally to keep popular street vendor in business”New York Daily News, June 6, 2008
• “Beloved UES Food Vendor Avoids Being Closed Down” NY1, June 5, 2008
• “Food Fight: City Hall Vs. Vendor” The New York Times, May 22, 2008
• “Vendors fight City Hall”Metro, May 28, 2008
• “City Officials Say Businesses Could Benefit From ECB Changes” New York Sun, May 28, 2008
• “Vending their anger” AM New York, May 19, 2008
• “Vendors Vie with Greenmarket for Space” The Tribeca Trib, April 2008
• “Alumni Profile: Sean Basinski“ Georgetown Law, Spring/Summer 2008
• “Food Fight” ABA Journal, November, 2007
• “Martha calls Sammy after Vendy victory” Metro, October 25, 2007
• “Vendy Awards: Street Chefs compete” The New York Times, September 28, 2007
• “The Kebab Man of 42nd and Eighth: A day in life of Hakim Elnagar” New York Magazine, June 25, 2007
• “City should bend on vendor rules” New york Daily News, December 15, 2006
• “Fine cuts profits for NYC street vendors” USA Today, October 15, 2006
• “Vendedores callejeros piden reducir multas” El Diaro (Spanish), October 4, 2006
• “Vendors not sold on city’s ticketing“ Newsday, October 4, 2006
• “A roving appetite” Baltimore Sun, July 5, 2006
• “A Day in the Lives of Underpaid Immigrants Who Keep City Humming” The New York Daily News , March 31, 2006
• “Kebabs on the Night Shift” The New York Times , May 14, 2006
• “Rid Apple of Loony laws: pol” New York Post , May 12, 2006
• “Deep-six 86th St. peddlers, pols say” New York Daily News, , April 26, 2005
• “Park vendors win 450G,” New York Daily News, November 24, 2004
• “Pushcart Vendors Gain Victory in a Labor Deal,” The New York Times, November 23, 2004
• “A street-squeeze on vendors,” American Public Media, November 10, 2004
• “PUBLIC LIVES; A Graduate of Law School and the Burrito Cart,”The New York Times, November 5, 2004
• “Street Smarts: To make sense of new regulations,” New York Press, October 13-19, 2004
• “Court Rules in Vendors’ Favor, Declaring a Fine Increase Illegal,” The New York Times, September 29, 2004
• “Street Corner Cooks Have Names, Too,” The New York Times, September 22, 2004
• “Vendors fret they’ll be carted off,” New York Daily News, July 22, 2004
• “Businesses Take A Stand,” amNew York, July 22, 2004
• “Vendors rally over GOP convention evictions,” Metro, New York Edition, July 22, 2004
• “To Judge, Poetic License Is Only Kind Artists Need,” The New York Times, April 13, 2004
• “Pushcart Wars,” Gotham Gazette, March 20, 2004
• “Selling Hot Dogs, Getting Ticketed,” Gotham Gazette, March 20, 2004
• “Street Vendors Demand Respect,” El Diario, March 17, 2004
• “City Makes MIllions Renting out Park Space to Businesses — and Turns its Back on Labor Abuses,” City Limits, January 2004
• “New York or Bangkok? An army of street vendors gives city Third World feel,” NY Daily News, November 10, 2003
• “D’ohnuts! Hospital, vendor in coffee war,” NY Daily News, November 10, 2003
• “Dealing With Unlicensed Vendors: Police, Council Offer Variant Methods,” New York Sun, October 10-12, 2003
• “A Modest Touch of Green Makes Vendors See Red,” The New York Times, September 21, 2003
• “Fields on Wheels” The New York Times, June 12, 2002
• “Neighborhood Report: The Pigeons Know the Truth, But They Ain’t Talking,” The New York Times, April 9, 2003
• “A Ray of Hope for the Street Vendors in El Barrio,” Siempre, April 8, 2003
• “Vendors Complain About Regulations,” Newsday, April 7, 2003
• “Street Vendors Push for Overhaul of License Regulations,” NY1.com, April 7, 2003
• “What Happens to the Neighborhood When Street Vendors Disappear?,” City Limits, October 2002