The Street Vendor Project filed an Article 78 petition, asking the NY Supreme Court to vacate $2,200 default fines when Nurzahan Begom received two tickets for vending roasted nuts within ten feet of a crosswalk.

The Street Vendor Project sought a judgement that would force the City to accept the license application of Bada Gueye, a Senegalese immigrant, kept on the waiting list to receive a General Vendor’s license for 16 years.

The Street Vendor Project represents two graffiti artists, Christopher Mastrovincenzo and Kevin Santso, who have been arrested and harassed for selling their work because the police did not believe it was “art.”

The Street Vendor Project represented a Lower East Side hot dog vendor in New York State Supreme Court after the City seized his pushcart and sought its forfeiture in 2002.