Will New York at Last Get More Street-Vending Permits?

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In December, New York’s City Council voted overwhelmingly to pass three bills aimed at reforming street vending. The most significant of these addresses the long-standing low cap on licenses for food vendors — currently just 6,880 — by raising it with an additional 11,000. The other two bills will create a Division of Street Vendor Assistance (for education and training) and require that the city distribute the new licenses within five years. But on his way out of office...