Street Vendor Project

ACTION ALERT: We’re calling on to take action on the package. Unjust enforcement isn’t policy - New Yorkers deserve a fair vending system now!

Join hundreds of vendors & allies in the Vendor Justice March:
🗓️Thursday 8/15
⏰ 10 AM
📍Union Square

🌻Meet the incredible Vendor Power Summer Interns: Andrew, Erica, Jacqueline and Maria🌻

They’ve been hitting the streets doing outreach, education, phone banking, learning media training and more! Learn about what motivates them to organize with street vendors for change from the city’s streets & sidewalks ➡️

Thank you to and for supporting our internship program!

Street vendors across New York City share the same dream-upward economic mobility & running their own small business. But that dream has become a nightmare. New York City’s governance of street vending is broken, and it is time to fix it.

Council Members Sanchez, Farias, De La Rosa, Krishnan, and the Public Advocate introduced the package of crucial bills that aim to reform the city’s current street vending system, letting vendors provide the services New Yorkers want - in a regulated, orderly system - and giving these small businesses a real chance to build wealth in their neighborhoods.

We’re calling on to pass the Street Vendor Reform Package — to invest in services and education for street vendors, rather than only punitive enforcement that destabilizes working families and pushes them into debt.

TAKE ACTION

1️⃣ Call your to tell them to support

2️⃣ Sign the petition at bit.ly/streetvendorreform

“I have to sell 3,000 bottles of water to be able to pay for that ticket. I walk up and down on 125th Street, from 125th to Marcus Garvey, and I may sell about five to 10 bottles of water each time I walk the five to six blocks. You could imagine how many times I would have to walk that route to pay for that ticket, and then pay rent and then buy something to eat.”

Former DOE teacher Edgar Telesford was hit with a $1,000 summons for selling water & pre-packaged chips without a license on 125th Street in Harlem

This has to stop. must pass

Rest in Peace to Mama Jo and our deepest condolences to her family. An iconic mother of street food, Joanna Despas, aka Mama Jo, served up breakfast on 47th Street & Park Ave for over 35 years at ‘Mama Jo’s Breakfast Cart’ after migrating to NYC from Greece. She was know citywide for her kind smile, her love for her customers — both those who visited from across the world and the local construction workers who built up the city around her.

Mama Jo was an SVP as a member for over a decade and won the 2018 Vendy Award for the best breakfast cart. She will be sorely missed by the SVP community and by the tens of thousands of lives she made better. May her memory be a blessing

Thank you to Team for collaborating on outreach to street vendors on Burnside Ave!

It is so important for educational materials & outreach to be available to street vendor small businesses, to help bring vendors into compliance, rather than just enforcement. We are glad to guide vendors with our compliance kits in English, Spanish, French and Wolof to support vendors in the corridor and thank for her support!

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This Friday! Join us at the .aaany Business & Resource Fair in Bay Ridge!

🗓️: Friday- June 28, 2024
⏰: 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
📍: AAANY Main Office, 6803 5th Avenue,
Brooklyn, NY 11220

Resources available in English & Arabic for:

✅ Street Vendors: Advocacy, legal help, & business advice.
✅ Small Businesses: Resources, counseling, & development.
✅ Financial Help: Operational advice, funding, & grants.
✅ Job Training: Placement services & career readiness.
✅ Employment: Job fairs & employer connections.
✅ Restaurant Workers: Mental health & resources.
✅ Immigrants: Rights advocacy, education, & legal aid
✅ Project & Community Support: Networking opportunities &community strengthening projects.

Street vending enforcement is regulated by DSNY police in the sidewalks, Parks police in parks property, and NYPD anywhere.

A new analysis by shows that summonses issued in and along city parks for unpermitted vending have increased year over year in the past 3 years. The number of summonses issued for those infractions is up 30% in 2023 compared to 2019.

“This will keep happening over and over again,” unless the City Council moves forward with a vendor reform package. When will the city be ready to have that difficult conversation and move things forward” said Mohamed Attia, managing director of SVP

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Save the Date! 🎉🎉 We’re thrilled to announce that our third annual gala, Street Heroes, will take place on Tuesday, October 1st at MoMA PS1

This year we’ll be ‘Celebrating Vendor Power’ the incredible street vendors who bring our city streets to life. Join us for a night of delicious street food prepared by our member vendors, drinks, and dancing!

Your support allows the Street Vendor Project to sustain and grow our organizing, advocacy, legal work on behalf of the street vendor community.

➡️ 🎟️ To learn more & purchase tickets, visit https://svp.urbanjustice.org/gala2024/ or 🔗 in bio

Outreach in Jackson Heights! SVP distributed measuring tapes & educational guides in Bangla to vendors along 37th Ave, supporting them to learn and follow the correct dimensions for vendor carts

SVP hit the streets from Harlem to Sunset Park this week to share information with vendors about their rights & responsibilities in Spanish, French, Wolof & Simplified Chinese.

To volunteer for street outreach, sign up at link in bio 🔗

Support Battery Park Vendor Family at bit.ly/batteryparkvendor (🔗 link in bio)

On the afternoon of Sunday, June 2nd, NYC Parks Enforcement Patrol and the NYPD aggressively targeted a street vendor family in Battery Park. At this time, the family asks for privacy as they recover from the trauma of the day’s events. The Street Vendor Project is supporting the street vendor family and connecting them to the appropriate legal resources. All funds raised go directly to the street vendor family. Thank you to everyone who has been speaking out in support.

Corona community care 🧹💜 we teamed up with to pick up trash & sweep the streets at 103rd & Roosevelt. Thank you and team for your partnership & support!

Shout out to the fruit vendors who make sure there’s access to fresh, affordable & healthy produce! 🌞🍎🍑

Outreach on the Upper West Side to share rules & regulations of vending, and connect our smallest businesses to educational resources

Thank you for your support for our Community Outreacb Program

SVP joined First-Ever Small Business Expo to share information & resources about street vending!

We connected thousands of our city’s smallest businesses to the info needed to thrive 💪💪

Shout out to the entrepreneurs like , SVP’s newest member, who brought samples of their delicious juices to share with attendees!

The Street Vendor Project Scavenger Hunt Champions have been crowned! These teams earned their awards by crisscrossing the boroughs, spotting flags & trying to new street foods!

🏆Street Vendor Project Scavenger Hunt Champion: Team Eat Something New In Queens with the most points overall!! 

🏅Scavenger Hunt Champion Runner Up: Queens of Queens, with the second most points winning a gift certificate to the 

🍳Vendor Power Spirit Award: Team Eggs All Day

🎨Best Drawing: Team Crumbs In the Middle Seat

📸 Best Photo: Team Picante Aloo Momo

🥙 Fundraising Champion: Team Eat Something New In Queens

✨To all the teams that played, we thank you for really coming through for street vendors, fundraising to sustain our language justice work, and sharing your positivity with each vendor you met. It’s these relationships that make our city warm and home 🥨💛

🌭Big thank you to our  to our presenting sponsor , , and our street vendor allies for donating prizes  .sen   @burlapandbarrel  @nycomedyclub @_archestratus_  

💛💛 Big thank you to our INCREDIBLE planning committee & judges Angy, Mariam, Dave, Justin, and Andrew! 💛💛

SVP will be joining first-ever NYC Small Business Month Expo! 🏪🎉

Access FREE services from 100+ city programs, agencies, & partners for all NYC owners!

Visit our table to learn more about street vending rules & regulations

📍Pier 36, 299 South St, New York, NY 10002
📅 Wed. May 29, 9 AM - 3 PM

RSVP at link in bio!

The Street Vendor Project Vendor Scavenger Hunt has come to a close ~ and we need your help to decide which team took the BEST DRAWING done in the style of ! Sunday is the awards ceremony where winners will be announced!

The winner receives gorgeous prints & tote from the inspiration herself !!

👇👇 Comment below with your favorite drawing!

📸 #1 Team Crumbs in the Middle Seat

📸 #2 Team Eggs All Day

📸 #3 Team Picante Aloo Momo

📸 #4 Team Queens of Queens

📸 #5 Falastinx100pre

📸 #6 Team Eat Something New In Queens

📸 #7 Team Philanthropictravellingtroup

📸 #8 Team Livable Streets

The Street Vendor Project Vendor Scavenger Hunt has come to a close ~ and we need your help to decide which team took the BEST photo! Sunday is the awards ceremony where winners will be announced!

The winner receives an incredible mix of prizes from our generous street vendor allies .sen !!

👇👇 Comment below with your favorite photo!

📸 #1 Team Fein Foods

📸 #2 Team Eggs All Day

📸 #3 Team Hellkoff

📸 #4 Team Cross-Borough Squad

📸 #5 Astoria Food Gang

📸 #6 Team Eggs All Day

📸 #7 Team Picante Aloo Momo

📸 #8 Team Queens of Queens

Happy Mother’s day 💛!

SVP extends heartfelt wishes to all the incredible hardworking moms 💪who tirelessly fight for the well-being and happiness of their families 🧑‍🧑‍🧒‍🧒 day in and day out. Today and everyday we thank you 🙏 for all that you contribute to this city. 🏙️

P.S. To those who took advantage of mother’s day sales please remember to find some time to rest 🧘‍♀️!

Warmly,
The SVP team ⛱️

Shout out to the incredible Street Vendor Project Scavenger Hunt teams hitting the streets to support our city’s smallest businesses!

Just a couple of missions answered by the teams in their race for 1st place:

🚇 visit vendors at the last stop of a subway line
🎨 draw street food in the style of
🤔 answer trivia about police misconduct lawsuits that SVP has won ⚖️

Cheer the teams on by donating at bit.ly/svpscavengerhunt2024 to your favorite team.

🌎 Every dollar they raise earns them 10 points. Every donation goes to SVP’s Language Justice Fund to ensure translation to Arabic, Mandarin, French, Spanish, and Bangla at each of our monthly membership meetings

🌻 Intern with SVP this Summer! 🌻

Spend your summer organizing for change from the streets & sidewalks of NYC!

Join the SVP team for Vendor Power Summer Internship - building power and fighting for justice for street vendors. Our summer internship program supports three young adults ages 18 - 24 to grow their leadership and organizing skills, while building their knowledge of food-justice practices in NYC

🔹Program dates: July 1, 2024 – August 23, 2024
🔹Application due date: June 9th, 2024

🔸To Apply: Email your cover letter & resume to [email protected] with “Vendor Power Summer Internship” in the subject line by application due date.

🔸Benefits: Each intern will be compensated $20/hour for 20 hours per week, for eight weeks totaling a stipend of $3,200.

For more information & to apply:
http://streetvendor.org/internship

✴️ link in bio ✴️

And they wonder why poverty rates in NYC just keep going up

That’s a $1,000 ticket. For selling fresh cut fruit. That costs $5/cup.

She needs access to business licensing, not a summons from the . Street vending is not a crime! We need now

🔗Sign the petition link in bio