NYC Department of Sanitation (DSNY)’s vending unit has apparently stepped up its patrols together with members of the NYPD in an effort to curb illegal vending across the city.
Norwood News was witness to one such enforcement action on Tuesday, May 6, at the corner of the Grand Concourse and East Fordham Road in Fordham Manor. As the enforcement team arrived with a large truck and at least one NYPD vehicle, the fruit vendor in question, a young woman who appeared to be in her early twenties, walked away from her tent and the multiple crates of fruit and vegetables.
A passerby, seemingly, allowed the vendor to use his phone to make a call. We asked the unidentified male passerby if he knew how long the vendor had been working at the location. “It’s been a short time she’s been working here, not too long,” he said.
The man continued, “She shows up with all the merchants here and they (the enforcement team) came to pick it [the tent] up.” Asked if he knew if the vendor had a license, the man said, “No.” He alleged the female vendor had recently arrived from Guatemala “illegally.”…