New Amsterdam News

"Mohamed Attia, managing director at the Street Vendor Project, said that while DSNY’s enforcement already exists elsewhere, the ballot measure greenlights agency deployment against vendors in city parks.”

NY Times

"The Street Vendor Project...is particularly concerned with Proposition 2. "When you read the ballot question, what it doesn’t mention is that it will increase these abusive and often violent enforcement actions against street vendors,” said Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez, the organization’s deputy director.”

NY Groove

“Besides the question of whether this expansion of powers is really needed in order to clean up the sidewalks...there’s a lot more to this than meets the eye, opponents say. Specifically, the ‘expanded powers’ for the Department of Sanitation would include giving the department the authority to remove street vendors, issue fines and confiscate their equipment, according to advocates at the Street Vendor Project.”

News 12

“The system of obtaining permits to vend is almost impossible... we need to think of these as our city's smallest businesses, that pay taxes and want to do it above board in a system that has not been backlogged since the 1970s,” said The Street Vendor Project Deputy Director Carina Kaufman Gutierrez.”

Medium

The Street Vendor Project and 49 other organizations endorsed a campaign urging New Yorkers to vote against the November proposition, arguing the charter review commission process was rushed and not inclusive: "This charter review commission was clearly rushed. It was clearly not inclusive of the public. And, that leads one to question, what’s the purpose of it?"

New York Times

"The police “broke the law” by destroying vendors’ property without due process, said Katy Diaz, who works with the Street Vendor Project."

Documented NY

"Street Vendor Project’s Deputy Director Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez says that when they destroyed the vendors’ carts without an opportunity to contest the seizure, the 115th Precinct repeatedly violated the due process clause of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution..."

Queens Latino

"La conferencia de prensa fue organizada por Street Vendor Project del Urban Justice Center. Argumentan que la policía viola la enmienda 14 de la Constitución y los protocolos de vales de propiedad."

Jackson Heights Post

“We very rarely see incidents like this,” said Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez, deputy director of Street Vendor Project. “The NYPD should have have taken the property back to the precinct... [not] thrown her property directly into the trash.”

Queens Daily Eagle

“If something was confiscated the way that it was, in this case, the vendors should have by law, the ability to go through a process of defending their rights,” Street Vendor Project’s Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez told reporters on Monday.