Help Liberty St. Vendors Get A Citi Bike Rack Moved
You may remember a couple of weeks ago when we posted about some of the food carts being forced to move from long time spots on Liberty St. at Broadway. The cause was a large Citi Bike station being installed one weekend, the vendors say without their consultation. Some of them have found new, less visible spots around the corner on Nassau St. & Liberty, but I’m sure sales are down somewhat when you’re not seen by the many tourists that walk down Broadway every day.
Want to help these vendors? Find out how after the jump.
The Street Vendor Project at the Urban Justice Center is attempting to help these displaced vendors, after already staging a protest. They’ve made a video that you can check out here, and they are also trying to get the Department of Transportation to move the Citi Bike rack five feet so the carts can return to their spots.
SVP and the vendors are asking that you e-mail Josh Benson, the Department of Transportation’s bike program coordinator at jbenson@dot.nyc.gov, to request the bike rack be moved.
Posted by Andrea H at 10:00 am, May 14th, 2013 under Street Vendor Issues, Street Vendor Project.
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Aren’t we being a little closed-minded here? Don’t we think that promoting biking might be more important than food venders?