Street Vendor Project

Member-led organization championing the rights of street vendors as small businesses to earn a living & contribute to NYC culture & life @urbanjustice

[Street Vendor Project @VendorPower]

AFTER 47 YEARS, STREET VENDOR REFORM HAS PASSED!!!

From NYC's tamaleras to halal carts, street vendors are an integral part of our city. Today @NYCCouncil advances their rights by making Intros 431, 408 and 1251 law. VENDOR POWER! 🌮🥙🗽

[Antonio Reynoso @ReynosoBrooklyn]

If you are looking for a food cart in NY-7...

[Street Vendor Project @VendorPower]

Another powerful licensing/permits/regulations workshop with Chinese street vendors in Sunset Park organized by our Mandarin-Speaking Member Organizer William!

Shout out to our partners at @anhdnyc @bklynlibrary for supporting vendors with food, space, and resources! 🙏

[Street Vendor Project @VendorPower]

Wishing Eid Al-Adha Mubarak ☪️ to all those who celebrate across NYC!

Behind coffee and Fuchka carts, Halal trucks, and fruit tables, there are Muslim vendors who make NYC 🗽 the city we call home.

Today, we reaffirm our commitment to community, justice, and dignity for all.

[NYC Sanitation @NYCSanitation]

Learn more about one of the winning studios for Trucks of Art!

Thought Matter is an independent New York City design and creative studio! The studio received the 2026 National Design Award for Communication Design from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, recognizing a decade of collaborative work shaped by imagination and public engagement. Thought Matter works across culture, commerce, and civic life, partnering with organizations such as the Times Square Alliance, Street Vendor Project, and 100 Gates Project to create work that influences how people experience and move through the city.

“Thought Matter designed CARE IN MOTION to honor the DSNY workforce by making their labor visible and reframing routine street encounters as moments of mutual respect and civic engagement,” the Thought Matter team said of their truck design. "Informed by New York City’s visual systems, where bold color, striping, and all-caps lettering signal action, the truck uses New Yorkers’ no-nonsense style of language to communicate directly with the public. Thought Matter’s design makes care visible and shared. Rather than offering symbolic praise, the design operates in real time by acknowledging sanitation workers’ presence while inviting patience, awareness, and shared responsibility from drivers, pedestrians, and onlookers.”

The truck Thought Matter painted will serve Manhattan Community District 12.

[Street Vendor Project @VendorPower]

Profoundly honored to receive the 2026 Changemaker Award from the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center

🎉 Congratulations to our fellow honorees @cmcrystalhudson & @nycmayor / @DMJulieSu

Thank you @nycfoodpolicy for recognizing SVP and fight for dignity for street vendors ✊

[Business Insider @BusinessInsider]

Behind $1 donuts: overnight bakers, immigrant vendors, and a $25K permit black market

[Business Insider @BusinessInsider]

NYC runs on breakfast carts—but vendors face rising costs and a broken permit system

[NY Taxi Workers @NYTWA]

NYC drivers & deliveristas united forever! We are proud to always stand in solidarity with our deliverista siblings and honored by the recognition of such fierce fighters for the working class! ✊🏾💞🎉

[Street Vendor Project @VendorPower]

To all the street vendor moms out there. We see you 😍

Thank you @rarebeauty and @emilyanxelica for supporting our street vendors and helping sweet vendor moms feel seen.

#makeup #rarebeauty #nyc

[Street Vendor Project @VendorPower]

@jonaswillett1 Cafe

[Street Vendor Project @VendorPower]

(📷 Gerard Gaskin & Dan Bigelow)

[Street Vendor Project @VendorPower]

SVP was beyond honored to receive the Frederick Douglass Award at @NorthStarFund's 2026 Community Gala!

North Star has supported the vendor movement since the very start, through the good times and the not so good, with a relentless commitment to the power of organizing 💛✊

[NY Taxi Workers @NYTWA]

ICYMI - immigrant rights are workers rights!

[Street Vendor Project @VendorPower]

While most of us are celebrating Mother's Day 🌺 today, thousands of vendor moms are working long hours to provide for their families.

This Mother's Day, don't forget to support the moms behind the carts, tables, and food stands that make NYC feel like home.

[Council Member Pierina Sanchez @CMPiSanchez]

Talking economic justice w/ @DMJulieSu means:
💰 Implementing street vending reform
🏰 Advancing the Kingsbridge Armory redevelopment
🏪 Supporting small biz on our commercial corridors

I'm excited to continue our partnership to bring economic development opportunities to D14!

[Antonio Reynoso @ReynosoBrooklyn]

As Tom Homan threatens to flood our city with ICE agents, we are calling on the @NYCMayor and @NYPDPC to outline clear standards for how the NYPD should respond. Failure to do so could result in chaos, lives lost, and families ripped apart.

[Laborers Fight Back @LaborersFight]

Throwback #TBT Labor Day 2025

[Street Vendor Project @VendorPower]

Sonia is a beloved vendor leader who sells tamales 🫔in Bushwick. After 25+ years of waiting, she finally received her food vending permit. She also recently had to start treatment for cancer. We ask our community to help Sonia during this difficult time: https://t.co/N3tAb2clt5

[Street Vendor Project @VendorPower]

🥁 The 2026 winners 🏆 of the Street Vendor Scavenger Quest are: https://t.co/zoQ03mcH4M Congratulations to our six winning teams and a special thank you to @TurnstileTours #PopWheels!

[Council Member Pierina Sanchez @CMPiSanchez]

On May 5, Council Member P. Sanchez and a broad coalition of street vendors, immigrant advocates, supermarkets, bodegas, Business Improvement Districts, Chambers of Commerce, and public space advocates released the following joint statement.

Full release:
https://t.co/9MKB2oxIgN