New Report: ILR’s Worker Institute Examines NYC’s Street Vending Laws

Cornell ILR’s Worker Institute recently published a new report, “Evaluating the Regulation and Reform Implementation of Street Vending Laws in New York City,” by Andrew B. Wolf and Dylan M. Hatch.

Street vending has long been an important entry point to the local labor market for New York City’s immigrant communities. Thousands of New Yorkers build their livelihoods around servicing our tourist industries and providing fresh food to our communities. For the first time in several decades, New York City engaged in a series of limited reform efforts aimed at addressing barriers to accessing food vendor permits and attempts to limit the criminalization of street vending in the City. This report evaluates the regulatory environment that street vendors face, investigating the implementation of these reform efforts and the disparate impacts and costs of vending enforcement