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“Everybody they arrested has the chance of having a whole family behind them, and they’re ripping it apart,” one vendor says.

The vast majority of migrant vendors, often seen with children selling goods or carrying them on their backs, said they lack child care.

Councilmember Sandra Ung has started a petition to increase enforcement in Downtown Flushing.

Street vendors gathered at the Queens Museum to commemorate the non-profit that advocates for changes in city and state policies.

The Street Vendors Project says promised city reforms have done nothing to stop a ticket blitz targeting their members.

The most recent city data available shows vendors got more tickets in the third quarter of 2021 than during the same period in 2019.

“Everybody now... we cry. No business, no food, no anything. I'm going today because I have family."

"Without adequate relief efforts, New York City's street vendors are forced to continue to work, risking their health and well-being in the process."

New York City's longest-running street food showdown has one final delicious competition.

The NYPD asserts that a proliferation of food vendors "can soften an officer's vigilance when similar looking equipment being used to hide explosives."