Documented NY

"Street vendors are often on the street at all hours of the day, so they are more vulnerable to physical attacks, Mohamed Attia, Managing Director of the Street Vendor Project at the Urban Justice Center, explained."

EINNews

"The Foundation gave the Neighborhood Leadership Award to...Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez of Street Vendor Project, who has as worked to pass city and state legislation to reform the street vendor industry and to create a relief fund for excluded workers."

StreetsBlog

“There are currently no specific vending laws or rules for bridges. The department should create some rather than enact a blanket ban on vending,” said Matthew Shapiro, the legal director of the Street Vendor Project, an organization within the Urban Justice Center."

Marketplace

"The Street Vendor Project’s director, Carina Gutierrez, estimated that there are currently at least 20,000 food and merchandise vendors operating in New York City, but only about 6,000 city permits available for them (5,100 of those are for mobile food vendors)...The city isn’t accepting any new applications, and the waiting list is closed."

BK Daily Eagle

In July, Matthew Shapiro, legal director of the Street Vendor Project, told the Eagle that the vendors provided “ a vital service” to tourists, adding, “A lot of people depend on this location to make a living and support their families.”

The Star

“'The city caps the number of permits given to street vendors seeking to sell food or merchandise, and the waitlists to get them have more than 10,000 applicants each,' according to Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez, deputy director of the Street Vendor Project at the Urban Justice Center."

Bronx Times

“The community at-large supports their local fruit and vegetables vendors because they see how hard they work and how they provide a service that is beneficial and not often available. The Street Vendor Project...state[d] to concerned residents that Council Member Velázquez...is one of the most powerful to influence changing vendor laws.”

NY Times

“'They rush to write the tickets, they rush to call the N.Y.P.D. and Sanitation to crack down on vendors, but they are not investing appropriately to get those licenses out to help vendors formalize their business,” said Mohamed Attia, managing director of the Street Vendor Project."

Gothamist

"Democrat Donovan Richards disclosed the ultimatum in remarks before the nonprofit Street Vendor Project’s gala at MoMA PS1 last week and repeated it to Gothamist. The [stadium] project must undergo a lengthy land-use review, including of street maps."

NY Daily News

"When bikes were moved off the bridge’s pedestrian pathway, more space opened up for vendors, said Mohamed Attia, managing director of the Urban Justice Center’s Street Vendor Project. “Now there is even more space for pedestrians and vendors to coexist.”