Jackson Heights Post

“We very rarely see incidents like this,” said Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez, deputy director of Street Vendor Project. “The NYPD should have have taken the property back to the precinct... [not] thrown her property directly into the trash.”

Queens Daily Eagle

“If something was confiscated the way that it was, in this case, the vendors should have by law, the ability to go through a process of defending their rights,” Street Vendor Project’s Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez told reporters on Monday.

Pix 11

"The protesters, who are members of the Street Vendor Project organization, said that the NYPD 115th Precinct, in particular, overpoliced the vendors in eastern Queens. They noted that overzealous enforcement is an issue city-wide."

Gothamist

"Alvarado is among at least five vendors along Junction Boulevard in Corona whose carts have been confiscated and trashed by the NYPD in recent weeks, according to the Street Vendor Project, an advocacy group." 

Queens Chronicle

"In response to the death of Anthony Jordan, 63, Darren Mack, co-director of Freedom Agenda, one of the many grassroots organizations leading the Campaign to Close Rikers, issued a statement. “It’s past time for Mayor Adams, district attorneys, and judges to stop sending people to a known death camp, and take every necessary action to shut it down as the law requires.”

New Amsterdam News

"Most participants at the Aug. 15 event were street vendors themselves, like the Street Vendor Project’s Calvin Baker. Baker sells general merchandise on Harlem’s 125th Street, an age-old corridor for Black street vendors in New York City."

Queens Daily Eagle

“Rikers is a grave risk to the life and safety of everyone there,” [Darren Mack, the co-director of advocacy group Freedom Agenda, said in a statement.]. “It’s past time for Mayor [Eric] Adams, district attorneys and judges to stop sending people to a known death camp, and take every necessary action to shut it down as the law requires.”

NY Daily News

"In the wake of the death, Freedom Agenda Co-Director Darren Mack referenced an increase in the jail population and in police arrests and the mandated closure of Rikers Island in 2027. Delays in the construction of the new borough jails has placed the closure date in serious doubt."

The City

“Rikers has claimed another life, and yet another family is grieving today,” said Darren Mack, the co-director of the Freedom Agenda, a nonprofit pushing to close the troubled jail. “And still, the mayor continues his cruel campaign to arrest and jail more of neighbors, subject them to more abuse and neglect on Rikers, and stall its long-overdue closure.”

NY1

"Mohammed Attia was a vendor for a decade, and is now the managing director of the Street Vendor Project.“The vending system has been set up for many decades, baiscally criminalizing the street vending community, making their jobs and businesses difficult to run,” Attia said."