A longtime local controversy over food cart vendors was reawakened last month when police officers handcuffed a woman selling mangoes from a food cart in a Brooklyn subway station.
In the early days of the pandemic, police eased up on enforcing street vendor rules. Advocates say food carts were a much needed source of affordable, open air food in a difficult time. They were also small businesses that kept many people afloat.
There's a song that literally goes back to the 1940s about street vending chestnuts.
Clean up the fake luxury items business on Canal Street. So out in the open under the noses of 1st and 5th precincts
Why are cops being assigned to be over-paid health inspectors or meter maids?🙄
The problem here is the city being overly stingy with food vendor permits! We should hands out lots and lots of permits and fill the subways with churros! The vendors are just trying to make a living and the cops are just doing their job. The legislation is the problem!
I wish I lived in a city where street vendors were a major issue.
So this is what our police are doing? I was thinking there may be one or two other priorities they could be focusing on.
Good. These people make much more than average and pay zero taxes.
They should leave them alone. They provide a service. And it keeps them and their families employed.
Disappointed that the article wasn’t just “it’s the racism”
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These guys are law-biding men guided by a strict code of conduct. Think of someone else to pick-on. Go back to arresting pot smokers