Vendor Resources

• Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) official website for one of the City agencies that governs vending issues
• NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board are the police harassing you? File a complaint
• NYPD home page of New York’s finest
• Green Carts a ton of information on NYC’s program to encourage fruit and vegetable vending in some areas
• Worksman Cycle experienced and recommended NYC-based manufacturer of food vending carts
• Shanghai Stainless  another well-regarded food cart and truck fabricator and friend of SVP

Small Business & Legal Resources

• Business Center for New Americans (BCNA) services for immigrants, including business planning and loans
• Law Help.org legal resources for low income people: employment discrimination, immigration, housing, etc.
• Laws of the City of New York public access to NYC Charter, Administrative Code, and Rules
• Hot Bread Kitchen training and food entrepreneurship programs for immigrant women and small business owners

SVP Friend & Ally organizations

• Turnstile Tours leads great New York City food cart (and other!) tours
• Reverend Billy & the Church of Stop Shopping — anti-globalism crusader and vendor supporter
• Center for Urban Pedagogy demystifies complex urban issues, like via our Vendor Power guide
• New York Immigration Coalition works with us on language access, immigration reform, civic participation, etc.
• Food Chain Workers Alliance organizes workers from the field to the food cart!  SVP is a proud member.
• AVA is a street vendor association of Chicago, Illinois
• Street Net international alliance of street vendor organizations (of which SVP is a proud member)
• NYC Food Truck Association standing up for the rights of food truck owners and operators
• Make the Road New York is building membership-based power for Latino and working class communities
• United Worker Congress is a network of excluded workers across the US

Research Links

• Historic Vendor Images NY Public Library’s archive of historic drawings and photographs of street vendors
• Pushcart Recommendations of the Mayor’s Commission shows how NYC vendors were treated in 1906
• Suzanne Wasserman’s ”The Good Old Days of Poverty: the Battle Over Pushcart Peddling on the LES “
• SIDEWALK by Mitchell Duneier required reading for anyone interested in street vendors in NYC
• Inclusive Cities has a ton of great reports on the global informal economy

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