Faced With Restrictions, NYC Street Vendors Push Back

*The reality of street vendors in NYC. Many are undocumented, many are women. VL

feet in 2 worldsBy Camila Osorio Avendano, Feet In 2 Worlds

They sell fast food to New Yorkers on the go.  But street vendors are considered outside of the movement to increase wages for workers at fast food restaurant chains.  That doesn’t mean they don’t face challenges.  Most of the city’s 25-thousand vendors areimmigrants who work without a license, since the city only issues 5,100 vending permits each year.  About half are women, and many are undocumented.

JOIN THE CONVERSATION ABOUT STREET VENDORS ACROSS THE COUNTRY AT #FOODUNDOCUMENTED.

Co-produced by Maria Villaseñor, a multimedia reporter based in New York City.

Feet in 2 Worlds coverage of street vendors is part of Street Food: Meet the People Who Make It, a partnership with Oakland Localand In These Times. It’s supported in part by The Media Consortium and the Voqal Fund.

Fi2W is supported by the David and Katherine Moore Family Foundation, the Ralph E. Odgen Foundation, and the Nicholas B. Ottaway Foundation.

This article was originally published in Feet In 2 Worlds.

Camila Osorio is a journalist from Colombia. She studied Political Science in Bogotá and an MA in Sociology at The New School. She is now a student in the Journalism and Latin American Studies program at NYU and she has done reporting in Colombia, South Africa and New York.

[Screen shot courtesy of Feet In 2 Worlds]

 

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