New York City street vendors tire of dodging summons-happy NYPD and city inspectors:
in January showed a dramatic drop in NYPD vending tickets, from 525 in the third quarter of 2019 to 289 in the same quarter of 2021. But vendors overall saw more tickets in that quarter because the NYPD and the DCWP combined issued a total of 540 tickets.report from last month analyzed a full year of data – from June last year to the end of May. It showed the agencies combined issued nearly 2,500 fines, a 33% increase from 2019.
Many of the current vendor regulations – like a cap on food vending permits and general vendor licenses – were instituted under Mayors Ed Koch and Rudy Giuliani from the 1970s to 1990s. Street vendors are a vital part of New York City’s economic landscape; however, everyone must follow the city’s rules and laws.Many vendors are ticketed for operating without a general vendor license or food vendor permit. Vendors said city limits on such documents and lengthy closed waitlists make legal operation virtually impossible.
Ruth Palacios, 43, and her husband Arturo Xelo, 60, received a DCWP ticket last summer for vending without a license – her first infraction in nearly a decade of vending on a busy street corner abutting Junction Boulevard in Corona, Queens. Outside Rite Aid, they sell plastic cups of cut fruit, like mango and watermelon, along with Mexican-style street corn – "elotes" and "esquites" – from a stand with a large pot for corn and condiment bottles like Tajin and lemon juice.
Next to Palacios’ stand, a generator hums from Antonio Gaona’s Tacos Izucar trailer, which displays a mobile food vendor permit with a city seal by the window. A DCWP worker issued Gaona a $25 ticket earlier this month because his cart was positioned too far from the curb, according to a summons.
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