Brownstoner

"Carina Gutierrez, deputy director of the Street Vendor Project, said by becoming street vendors in their own communities, people...are able to stay connected to their neighbors and families who often share ethnic and linguistic backgrounds, and strengthen the community fabric."

Gothamist

“Street vendors are small businesses,” Mohamed Attia, director of the Street Vendor Project at the Urban Justice Center, told Gothamist. “Street vendors are not trash or recyclables that should be collected.”

Documented

"Sex work decriminalization advocates such as Mariah Grant, director of Research and Advocacy at the New York-based Sex Workers Project, say that prosecutions that have continued to occur in Brooklyn and Queens exemplify the limitations of DA non-prosecution policies."

Gothamist

“We are disappointed to see that once again, our city is fast to move on creating more enforcement for street vendors — yet fails to reform the unjust and arcane regulatory system, and provide opportunities for our city’s smallest businesses to thrive” - the Street Vendor Project."

NY Amsterdam News

"We know that the safest communities are the ones with the most resources, not the most incarceration,” said Darren Mack, co-director of Freedom Agenda at the Urban Justice Center."

AM NY

"At the rally, hosted by the criminal justice group Freedom Agenda, the speaker repeated her calls to close Rikers by Aug. 31, 2027 — a date required by the 2019 City Council law that mandates the complex be shutterered."

Brownstoner

"Rikers should have been closed decades ago and this administration should be exercising leadership to find every way possible to do it faster,” said Darren Mack, co-director of Freedom Agenda...How many more lives is this mayor willing to see lost or forever damaged in that hellhole?”

Morning Express

"When I realized that my number 3488 on the waiting list was so high I thought I would never be able to receive a license...That is why we urge the Council to reform the street vendor industry so that we can work with dignity under a fair system,” said Goba, who is a member of the Street Vendors Project."

Morning News Outbreak

"Despite the mayor’s positive outlook, the Street Vendor Project, a prominent advocacy group, expressed disappointment in the move. They feel that the city is focusing too much on enforcement rather than reforming the regulatory system and providing more opportunities for small businesses to thrive."

Pix 11

"“All the agencies involved are doing enforcement and cracking down. There’s too much enforcement and not investment in formalizing the system,” said Mohamed Attia with the Street Vendor Project."