We stand by our Street Vendors 🤜🏼🤛🏼

Yo, this plaza was on the New York Times top 100 best places to eat in NYC. But the vendors got kicked out last week. Jaeki Cho broke down the issues facing street vendors in NYC. 🤜🏼🤛🏼

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Producer: Rob Martinez
Editor (Original Cut): Rob Martinez
Editor (YouTube Cut): Lauren Campbell
EPs: Brian Lee, Jaeki Cho, Rob Martinez

[phucyfillk]

Street vendors are the heart and soul of any city, much less New York. You can't tell the story of NY food without taqueros, halal and hot dog carts, even back to Jewish and Italian immigrants running push carts back at the start of the 20th century in little italy and the LES. Icing out modern vendors from the advancement opportunities of the past is based on racism and a disdain for change.

[alexandregoulet]

Legalize… food? Create a framework that allows vendors (ie small businesses) to conduct their affairs safely while allowing the public (which represents willful demand) to safely enjoy the products.

[logos]

I agree. Let's just let anyone sell food. Even better, let's eliminate the FDA too. Who needs health guidelines and a system of checks and balances.

[lovejones]

They hate that those vendors are selling foood that ppl want at amazing prices. They feed us New Yorkers and tourist

[leodion]

There’s over 1 million people in NYC it’s OK if 100, 000 people have a food vendor license and or mobile vendors. That’s 10% of the population of people providing fresh good food regulating all of that would create at least 20, 000 jobs or 10, 000. This is stupid. Honestly if cities literally just was bed-and-breakfast food cities that would be awesome especially the cities that are in between towns and New York is a live there. Stay there visit come back in and out you should want people to invest and divest money thats not in conscience regulatory measures into a city. It helps the economy.

[jonathanmado]

A majority of these food carts don’t follow commonplace food safety laws. There’s a reason why they’re not allowed to vend food. It’s to protect the citizens of our country. They cook hotdogs on literal baking pans and let them sit around in open air without being covered.

[Militarycollector]

They don’t pay taxes the Health code is in no way unforced, , yeah it may taste good, , but I guarantee you if you saw exactly what was going on as far as The sanitary conditions or shall I say unsanitary conditions you’d never eat there again…
You have to find someone that has morals and treat his customers right even behind the scenes when is most expected but isn’t..!!!