food vendors
Health inspectors pour bleach on taco-stand food in 'extreme' takedown of alleged rogue vendor
November 19, 2025 | 4:14pmDenver health officials defended the "extreme" step of pouring bleach into food at a taco stand that has refused to follow the law.
Furloughed IRS lawyer achieves childhood dream of operating food cart
October 25, 2025 | 5:23pmSHYSTERS hot dog cart bills itself as "The Only Honest Ripoff in DC."
Council GOP leader Ariola blasted for backing law decriminalizing illegal vending
September 11, 2025 | 6:53pmSmall business advocates slammed Republican Council Minority Leader Joann Ariola for voting to override Mayor Eric Adams' veto of legislation that decriminalizes illegal vending, claiming it will hurtlaw-abiding merchants.
Gunman, 21, arrested in shooting of Times Square food vendor, claims self-defense: cops
May 1, 2025 | 12:22amThe suspect sadi he acted in "self-defense," as he was walked from the precinct with his hands cuffed behind his back into a waiting police cruiser, stating, “the guy pulled...
NYC fruit vendor who sold $6.2M banana for pennies is still fuming: 'I got 35 cents'
November 29, 2024 | 3:51pm“I got 35 cents. The other guy got $6 million."
NYC fruit vendor, 74, who sold banana devastated after it became viral $6.2M artwork: 'I am a poor man'
November 28, 2024 | 11:45pm“I am a poor man. I have never had this kind of money; I have never seen this kind of money ... Do they not know what a banana is?”
Filthy NYC eatery at center of migrant-run black market food racket makes defiant confession: 'We know it's illegal'
November 25, 2024 | 3:32pmAn illegal migrant food selling operations run out of an unsanitary Brooklyn eatery continues to operate despite a slew of city health department violations.
NYC eatery running migrant food-peddling ring hit with sickening new violations: 'No regard'
November 24, 2024 | 6:30pmA filthy Brooklyn restaurant where migrants prepare potentially dangerous food to sell on Big Apple streets has been hit with a new rash of sickening violations.
Brooklyn restaurant at center of illegal migrant-driven food-vending scheme
November 24, 2024 | 6:01amA Latin American restaurant in Brooklyn with a laundry list of revolting health-code violations is at the center of an illegal vending scheme where dozens of migrant women brazenly hawk...
Queens crook's 23 arrests prior to stab attack on vendor show NYC's insane crime fail
November 5, 2024 | 1:24pmTwenty-three arrests: Deranged street-sleeper Niser Cekic racked up that many before he stabbed a Queens fruit vendor multiple times. The vendor asked him to move, and Cekic flew into a...
Screwball with 23 prior arrests stabs NYC vendor who asked him not to sleep near fruit stand: cops
November 4, 2024 | 4:15pmNiser Cekic, 47, was snoozing near a fruit stand set up at 59th Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Sunnyside around 5:45 p.m. when the worker – a 35-year-old man –...
Shirtless bozo attacks street vendor in awkward brawl as embarrassed school kids look on
October 24, 2024 | 5:12pmCops say 40-year-old Joshua Martino went after the unidentified food vendor because he was upset that a crowd of kids had gathered in front of his house.
Finally! NY takes action to clean up 'Market of Sweethearts' brothels —but how long will it last?
October 17, 2024 | 1:34pmIt's great that Gov. Kathy Hochul sent state troopers Tuesday to join NYPD cops in cracking down on the Roosevelt Avenue, Queens, "Market of Sweethearts," but will it work this...
Heartbroken widow of slain NYC fruit vendor speaks out: 'What happened to my husband is an injustice'
September 26, 2024 | 9:03pm“I am asking the police and the governor to please do their job.”
Longtime NYC fruit vendor beaten to death with baseball bat in 'cold-hearted' attack: cops
September 25, 2024 | 7:07pmRomel Jarrett, 37, and Terrence Downes, 44, wrestled 56-year-old Leslie Sanchez to the ground and bashed him in the head with the bat at his selling spot on Fordham Road...
NYC food truck worker sued for $20M by consultant he 'falsely' accused of stalking him: suit
July 20, 2024 | 12:57pmA NYC crisis management consultant accused of harassing a food truck worker telling him to “go back to [his] country” and?even pulling a gun on him?is now suing the halal...
Bystander shoots knife-wielding menace who was harassing NYC food vendor: sources
June 11, 2024 | 11:12pmThe man was threatening the street vendor on 33rd Street and Broadway around 8 p.m. when he pulled out a knife, started scraping it on the ground and pointed it...
Meet the two legendary Mets' beer-slinging vendors who have been around almost as long as the team: 'I'm still here!'
June 5, 2024 | 6:00amThese two have had an Amazin’ run.
NYC grocers gripe over fruit vendors so close to stores: 'Pick off our customers'
May 26, 2024 | 5:36pmCity grocery-store owners are blasting Big Apple officials for allowing licensed fruit and vegetable vendors on the same block as their shops -- in some cases fewer than 30 feet...
NYC's 'Hot Dog King' and disabled Vietnam vet has cart shut down again, claims city out to get him
May 26, 2024 | 4:07pm"This is not the first time they did it, but this time it's right in front of the Memorial Day weekend," vendor Dan Rossi said, adding the timing of this...