In the Press
2012
- City Council to Assess Easing Fines on Street Vendors, NY Times, April 24, 2012
- Vendors fight to get non-health fines lowered, WABC, April 24, 2012
- Report Says Excessive Fines for Vendors are Hurting the City, Village Voice, April 24, 2012
- City Council Mulls Lower Fines, Stricter Rules for Street Vendors, DNA Info, April 24, 2012
- Street Vendors to City Council: These $1,000 Fines Are Killing Us, Gothamist, April 24, 2012
- NYC Street Vendors Want Fines for Minor Violations Lowered, CBS New York Radio, April 24, 2012
- Council Reevaluates Street Vendor Rules, WNYC, April 24, 2012
- Street Vendors Deserve A Break, NY Post, February 21, 2012
- Vendors Rail Against Expensive Fines at City Hall Rally, DNA Info, February 16, 2012
- Fines Excessive, Say Street Vendors, Epoch Times, February 16, 2012
- “I Was Treated Better When I Sold Drugs”, NY Daily News, February 16, 2012
- Council Bills to Curb Street Vendor Fines Moving to Committee, Gotham Gazette, January 18 2012
2011
- Street Vendor Group Supports Letter Grade System for Food Trucks, AM New York, November 27, 2011
- Tour Bus Ticket Sellers Fear They’ll Be Jailed for Doing Their Jobs, DNA Info, November 14, 2011
- New Effort To Help Street Businesses Impacted by OWS, CBS New York Radio, November 8, 2011
- New Web Site Helps Food Vendors Stay Near Occupy Wall Street Stay Afloat, DNA News, November 7, 2011
- Street Vendors Team Up to Feed Occupy Wall Street, Gothamist, November 7, 2011
- Weprin Calls on City to Oversee Food Carts, Queens Campaigner, November 3, 2011
- Hefty Fines Hurt Street Vendors, Queens Chronicle, November 3, 2011
- Talk of the Town: Meals on Wheels, The New Yorker, October 24, 2011
- After Fighting to Sell Tacos, He’s Named “Most Heroic” Vendor, Today Show online, September 26, 2011
- Truck patties with “lots of love” earn chef 2011 Vendy Award, NY Daily News, September 25, 2011
- Street Vendors Push Official to Reduce Fines for Violations, Queens Times Ledger, July 27, 2011
- Street vendors urge local pols to reduce fines for sidewalk carts, NY Daily News, July 26, 2011
- Vendors Fight for Fair Shake, Queens Tribune, July 21, 2011
- New Report Says Cops Really Like Ticketing Forsyth Street Produce Vendors, Village Voice, July 21, 2011
- Forsyth Market Produce Vendors Fighting Back, Bowery Boogie, July 21, 2011
- Chinatown Street Vendors Say They’re Unfairly Targeted for Tickets, WNYC, July 20, 2011
- Overwhelmed By Fines, Forsyth Street Market Withers, Epoch Times, July 20, 2011
- After A Call for Better Park Vendors, Six Are Picked, NY Times, June 21, 2011
- The Vendor’s Hustle, Australia National Radio, April 2, 2011
- Street Vendors Get Help Against Unfair Ticketing, Greenpoint Star, March 22, 2011
- New York vendors hold vigil for Tunisian vendor who started revolution , NY Daily News, March 9, 2011
- Vendors fight super-sized penalties handed down by Bloomberg administration, NY Daily News, Feb 9, 2011
- Paty’s Taco Truck Returns to Upper East Side, DNA News, January 12, 2011
2010
- 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
- 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 Islam, Vendor Canned for Bathroom Break, Speaks at Rally, Village Voice, 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
- “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” NY 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 — and Turns its Back on Labor Abuses,” City Limits, January 2004
- “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