Sonia Pérez was frustrated but not surprised. Weeks earlier, on July 30, Mayor Eric Adams vetoed a bill that would have removed criminal misdemeanors incurred by street vendors for selling food without a cart permit.
“This is not the first time that there has been holdbacks for street vendors,” the 54-year-old street vendor told Documented in Spanish, adding that in her two decades of working in the industry, the fight to improve working conditions for street vendors has always been an uphill battle.
The bill Mayor Adams vetoed, Introduction 47-B, would have eliminated all misdemeanor criminal penalties for general and mobile food vendors, replacing them with civil fines…