Street vendors demand City Council to lift decades-old permit cap in the city
Street vendors from across the city rallied in Times Square yesterday in a bid to draw the City Council’s attention to a bill that would get rid of the city’s nearly 40-year-old stringent cap on street vendor permits, AMNY reports.
Current law, which has been previously disputed in the city, dictates a strict limit on the amount of street vendor permits in circulation. The cap has led to 20-year-long waiting lists for permits and an underground market where vendors can source permits circulating at shocking markups. The bill — which was originally introduced to City Council in 2018 by Councilmember Margaret Chin, who represents several lower Manhattan neighborhoods including Soho, Noho, and the LES — would lift the cap and gradually add more vendor permits to the system. It has garnered support from many local legislators, including Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer.
But many are also skeptical of the bill, including a number of the city’s business improvement districts, AMNY reports. Detractors were concerned about how social-distancing regulations and safety measures would be enforced as the amount of vendors expanded. In June, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the NYPD would no longer be in charge of street vendor enforcement — a move that was applauded by street vendors at the time — but some argue that it’s now unclear how enforcement is handled.
Supporters of the bill are hoping to push City Council to vote on the proposed legislation soon, as the pandemic has left many vendors struggling without governmental aid amid the crisis.
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