NYC Issued Over 10,000 Street Vendor Tickets, Confiscated Tons of Food in 2024
The number of NYPD tickets in 2024 was five times higher than in 2019, when the police were the primary enforcers of vendor rules before the pandemic hit and the city temporarily scaled back enforcement. It’s also twice as many as in 2023, when the police issued about 4,213 tickets to vendors.
“I’m doing everything I can. I’m following the law, and yet the NYPD is just coming at me and coming at me with all these little infractions and giving me a hard time, and giving my partners and my employees a hard time,” one midtown vendor told City Limits.
