Early bird tickets are on sale for Tequila Fest New York City 2025, featuring complimentary tequila tastings, tacos & jerk chicken.

Before January 2024, vendors were a constant presence on the Brooklyn Bridge. Photo: Mary Frost, Brooklyn Eagle. With all this in mind, Maffei is approaching the bridge vendor challenge strategically.

Trinidadian immigrant Sherwin Williams' Disturbance Ital Market brings Caribbean flavor and flare to Crown Heights.

In his man-on-the-street interviews of everyday New Yorkers, Nicolas Nuvan can seem like a cousin to half the city.

New York City street vendors would no longer face misdemeanor charges and jail for violating the city's vending laws, under a new bill passed by the City Council. Councilmember Shekar Krishnan, a ...

Illegal vendors returned to the Brooklyn Bridge pedestrian walkway in December despite a ban put into place on Jan. 3, 2024. Photo courtesy of Alan Posner Adams promises to take a look ...

Intro. 47 would eliminate criminal penalties for NYC street vendors, instead issuing them violations, or non-criminal ...

Street vendors selling merchandise are required to have a general vendor license. The number of such licenses has been capped at 853 since 1979.

Brick-and-mortar business groups oppose the proposal to lift a cap on street-vending licenses, which supporters say will simply bring existing vendors into the light and help the city regulate them.

“Street Vendors are forced to live in a shadow economy paying brokers for licenses ($18 to $30K for two years as opposed to under $1000 for two years under the city license) or risk heavy fines ...

After NYC street vendor crackdown, Mayor Adams calls for faster system improvement Published: Dec. 31, 2024, 9:45 p.m. Fruit vendors at the Staten Island Ferry.