What's happening
This bill prohibits food vendors from operating on specified sections of Hillside Avenue, Union Turnpike, and 76th Avenue in Queens.
Why it matters
Impacts local small businesses and street vendors. By prohibiting food vending on these specific streets, the bill could significantly affect the livelihoods of local vendors who rely on these areas for customer traffic, potentially reducing their income or forcing relocation.
Aims to address congestion, safety, or neighborhood concerns. The restricted areas are major thoroughfares, so the prohibition may be intended to alleviate pedestrian or vehicle congestion, address safety, or respond to complaints from residents and brick-and-mortar businesses.
Could shape the character and accessibility of local food options. Removing food vendors from these stretches may limit the diversity and affordability of food for residents, commuters, and students who rely on street food as a convenient option.
Sets a precedent for localized vending bans. If enacted, this targeted restriction could encourage similar legislation in other neighborhoods, influencing citywide policy debates over street vending and public space use.
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Ban Street Vending in Jamaica
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- Referred to cities
- Referred to cities
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Ban Street Vending in Jamaica
In Senate Committee · Cities · Sponsor Tony Avella
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STATE OF NEW YORK
5078
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 6, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Cities
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting vendors from vending on certain streets
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision k of section 17-315 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by chapter 11 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read as follows:
k. No food vendor shall vend on any street at any time where and when the operation of any food vending business is prohibited pursuant to either local law or section 20-465.1 of the code and any rules promulgated pursuant thereto. No food vendor shall vend in the area including and bounded on the east by the easterly side of Broadway, on the south by the southerly side of Liberty Street, on the west by the westerly side of West Street and on the north by the northerly side of Vesey Street. No food vendor shall vend on Hillside Avenue or Union Turnpike, in the area between 248th street and the Nassau county border or on 76th Avenue, in the area between 263rd street and the Nassau county border, in Jamaica, county of Queens.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00640-01-7
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