Street Vendors in New York: A Look at their Struggles and Solutions

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get off their grills, rather thanall dust off that jarbecause the temperature will benice and love to have theIt was partly cloudycame back with youíctor: let’s talk now about thestreet vendors,multiply in new cityYork, it’s easy to see the unemployedin the corners, stationsbuses, on the train and evenin the middle of the closed roadslives.hope: table mateberenice gartner hall of thesituation of these immigrants,because for years there has beencrisis in the sector due to lackfrom service.Bernice: hello.I greet you from the little square incrown queens, a place full ofin traveling debtors, and wherethere are more and more, that’s why theythey have formed avendor association forprotect their territory andalso protect yourself fromfines given by the city.in the corona squarebreathe in the smells of the kitchenfrom all of Central America.it actually smells likesurvival.>> they just arrived, they have 2months, one month, 15 days.reporter: pain was one of thefirst sellers in the area,cooking for 3 yearsquesadilla.has it seemed much moresellers?and it continues to multiply, seúna report published by ato 20,000 sellersstreet vendors, many of them withoutthe permission, without the license thatis required, touch tothese permits are from 5100, whichthat left the ace of a thirdof them working illegally.rose is in process forget one of their permits,what is your hope?>> someone dies, and thepermit becomes vacant and goes onwaiting linereporter: many sellerstake to the streets to sell theirpermits, risking thatgive them fines, just in2022 between the police and thedepartment, they gave him almost5,200 fines, which is why many ofthey also choose to buya license in the marketblack, for which he pays more thanyou also contribute tothe city.>> í, they think thatwe don’t pay taxesbut we paytaxes.let us workreporter: rosario cró laassociation of vendorsthe fines that were in theconsumer Department,till March.>> it was the last day he came todo that before it came out,that he was going to enter healing, it wasthat of putting fines.>> what we ask for herefor the square, as a permitto fix here as aformal market.reporter: for wingsyou can find the regulationto apply for a permitsale.the health department,who are the ones who havenow in charge of the task of