NYer’s love our Street Vendors. Whether you are getting your coffee, bagel, hot dogs, pretzels, fruit juices, nuts, knishes, sausages, halal food, sunglasses, perfumes, soups, or a variety of other pushcart products, there’s a multitude of issues these vendors must endure to make life a bit easier for us.
The Street Vendor Project along with The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) and designer Candy Chang has put together a great looking, informative and visionary guide about vendor regulations, rights, history and what a more just system would look like.
A sample page titled Get to know your Street Vendor was made available on the Street Vendor Project’s website. It’s chock-full of interesting tidbits, for example:
Businesses that started as pushcarts:
Bloomingdales, D’Agostino’s, Macy’s, Roc-a-Fella Records, Cohen’s Fashion Optical, and Goldman Sachs
Former NYC Vendors:
Jerry Seinfeld, Jay-Z, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Amadou Diallo, and Levi Strauss
