Last Wednesday, the New York City Council passed a bil that halves the fines that can be levied on vendors. Because of this victory thousands of new immigrants who enrich our city can go to work secure in the knowledge they'll be able to feed their families.

TRIBECA — Five SoHo street vendors are suing the city for seizing their carts, tables and merchandise in a crackdown on Broadway this May that they ...

Both gourmet food trucks and allegedly messy carts are constitutive elements of the NYC foodscape. Any attempt at deciding what category of vendor is better somehow goes against the very spirit of the city.

GREENWICH VILLAGE -- Cops have launched a crackdown on illegal book vendors selling thousands of tomes from tables along Sixth Avenue, DNAinfo has lea...

A conclave of outraged midtown businesses are putting their time to good use by demanding the removal of "ugly" food carts from their otherwise pristi...

In honor of Frederick Douglass' activism, here is my Valentine's Day message to New Yorkers who want to make this city a fairer, more caring and compassionate place.

New York City's street-meat vendors could soon be subject to health letter grades if one Queens lawmaker has it his way. State Senator Jose Peralta...

NY is home to 10,000 street vendors, the majority of whom are immigrants. The job for these workers is inherently tough. But the web of rules regulating the industry makes it even more difficult to get ahead.

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Just two weeks after the Bloomberg administration proposed to drastically cut the number of art vendors allowed in four popular city parks, two Times Square vendors are being hailed as heroes.

The Parks Department has proposed new rules that would lead to a 75-80% reduction in art vendors in Union Square Park, Central Park, and Battery Park. More than 100 people are expected to lose their jobs.

New York street vendors are almost all immigrants. They don't carry guns. But one thing is for sure. Like members of the Tea Party, they mostly just want the government to leave them alone.

Street vendors be warned: Take a bathroom break, and it may be your business that gets flushed down the toilet. ...

After freaking out street vendors and the bloggers who love them yesterday, the Health Department has emailed us to say it was all a big misunderstand...

Apparently at the end of last year, the Department of Health adopted a resolution that rewrote many parts of the health code as it pertains to street ...

From the moment I was expected to contemplate a Yom Kippur fast as a teenager, I became ravenous. I clearly remember the object of my uncontrollable hunger -- Smokey the Bear cookies.