Publications

SVP publications

• Peddling Uphill: A report on the conditions of street vendors in New York City (2006)
• Spoiled: How relentless enforcement and $1,000 tickets are ruining Chinatown’s largest market (2011)
• Street Vendors do not compete with brick-and-mortars (2011)
• Vendor Power! our award-winning visual guide and collaboration with CUP and Candy Chang (2009)
• The Street Vendor Opportunity Bill Memo SVP’s model legislation (2005)
• Street Vendors Unite: Ten Ways to Improve Vending in NYC (2003)

SVP testimony

• Testimony on NYC Summons Court Reform (December 15, 2014)
• Testimony on Intro 467, Costumed Characters Bill (November 19, 2014)
• Testimony on Garodnick Food Truck Parking Bill (April 17, 2013)
• Testimony on Proposal to Create “Green Cart” Permits (January 31, 2008)
• Testimony on Proposals to Require Translation Services for Administrative Hearings (May 11, 2006)

Academic & other publications

• Fining the Hand that Feeds You by Alfonso Morales and John Davis (2012)
• NYC Street Vendors: studio report of Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (2011)
• Streets of Dreams, Institute for Justice Report (2011)
• LA’s Taco Truck War: How Law Cooks Food Culture Contests by Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez (2010)
• All Fingers Are Not Equal: Street Vendors in Lagos Nigeria by SVP director Sean Basinski (2009)
• Zoning for Public Markets and Street Vendors by Alfonso Morales and Gregg Kettles (2009)
• The Mayor’s Pushcart Commission (NYC) (1906)
• Food Cartology: Rethinking Urban Spaces as People Places, Urban Vitality Group, Portland Oregon (2009)
• The Sexual Political Economy of Street Vendors in Washington D.C., Roberta Spalter-Roth (1980s)
• Street Hawkers & Public Space in Mumbai, by Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria (2006)
• The Pushcart Evil: Peddlers, Merchants, and New York City’s Streets, 1890 – 1940, by Daniel Bluestone (1991)
• Jewish Foodways and Entrepreneurial Opportunity in The East European Immigrant Community by Alan M. Kraut
• A Right to Vend: New Policy Framework for Fostering Street Entrepreneurs in New York City, by Ya-Ting Liu (2007)
• A New Commodity in New York City’s Chinatown, by Dawn S. Kissi (2005)
• Regulating Street Vendors in New York City: Case Studies, by Joshua Benson (2006)
• Street Vending Crackdowns in New York City, by Ryan Devlin
• Sidewalk Entrepreneurs, by Jayshree Bajoria
• Draft National Policy on Street Vendors, Government of India, February 2003

Please visit our scribd page for more assorted documents.