The City Council today will discuss legislation requested by Mayor Bloomberg to add 1,500 fruit and vegetable carts to poor neighborhoods across the city.
Unions and small business groups have expressed concerns that the added competition could hurt supermarkets. Council Member Leroy Comrie, a sponsor of the proposal, said yesterday he expects the council to modify [...]
The city, in an abrupt about-face, is now allowing store owners to put A-frame signs on the sidewalk again after cracking down this fall on the alleged sidewalk obstruction.
A new memo from the Department of Sanitation instructs enforcement officers not to issue tickets “as long as [the sign] does not impede pedestrian traffic.”
The rules were [...]
In the No Good Deed Goes Unpunished category, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg came up with a plan to provide fresh fruits and vegetables to low-income New Yorkers, and he got hit with rotten tomatoes from city street vendors.
The mayor’s plan — to provide an extra 1,500 cart permits for vendors willing to sell produce in [...]
This year, when the Liberty Plaza Greenmarket reopened, near the corner of Cedar and Church Streets, its organic overlords told the local streetfood sellers that they couldn’t share sidewalk space with arugula peddlers on Tuesday and Thursday from August to December. Then things got ugly: One of the vendors, Bangladeshi immigrant Mohammed Ali, 44, who’d [...]
YORKVILLE. Giuseppe Pecora decided to follow his customers here 20 years ago, when he opened Delizia pizzeria on the corner of 92nd Street and Second Avenue.
“We had a location on 73rd Street, and people used to take cabs down,” Pecora said.
The surrounding mom-and-pop shops were thriving, and Pecora’s business grew so much he built an [...]
