Homecoming NYC

"Join us for our next food crawl on Sunday, August 13, hosted in partnership with the Street Vendor Project! We’ll be headed to Astoria, Queens."

BK Eagle

“Vendors have been selling on the Brooklyn Bridge for years and years, and provide a vital service to tourists. This is their livelihood,” Matthew Shapiro, legal director of the Street Vendor Project, told the Eagle.

The Chief Leader

"It’s a move “that is very intentional, to displace the vendors, to push them out of the location, and make sure they go out of business, which has happened for most of the carts that used to operate along this block,” said Mohamed Attia, the managing director of the Urban Justice Center’s Street Vendor Project."

AM NY

"Street vendors have been here serving New Yorkers, serving construction workers who broke their backs building those towers,” said Mohamed Attia, managing director of the Street Vendor Project...“Now they are being displaced.”

W42ST

“Since 2019, the local business improvement district...has been placing trees where the vendors operate...to displace the vendors and push them out of the location and out of business...” said Mohamed Attia, the Managing Director at the Street Vendor Project."

Eater NY

"Food was a way around the language barrier while also being able to share a taste of his home, according to the Street Vendor Project, which acted as a go-between for this story."

NY Daily News

“Sometimes people just want to scapegoat the vendors and blame them for their problems,” said Mohamed Attia, managing director of the Street Vendor Project. “I don’t really think they are making this whole effort concerned about the health of New Yorkers."

CBS News

"You can try the freshest quesadillas you've ever had in your entire life, hand-pressed right here in the plaza," [said Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez, Deputy Director, Street Vendor Project].

NEP York

"As part of the small business ecosystem, street vendors stand alongside brick-and-mortar businesses in the call for commercial rent stabilization,” said Mohamed Attia, Managing Director of the Street Vendor Project."

Dateline: CUNY

"On May 6 [Sonia Perez] arrived at the Bushwick park with her shopping cart filled with coolers to the sight of a crowd excited to greet her. Perez was the first stop in the Street Vendor Project’s second annual scavenger hunt."