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Nature May Be Calling, But New York City Street Vendors Can't Pick Up

By Bruce Carton

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When you gotta go, you gotta go ... unless you are a New York street vendor, in which case you gotta NOT go or else the New York Department of Health will swoop in and promptly scratch the permit off of your hot nut cart in the 20 minutes that you are away from your stand. The New York Times City Room blog reports that a new DOH policy that took effect on Jan. 1 bans vendors from leaving their food carts unattended, even for bathroom breaks. Unattended carts are subject to "on-the-spot seizure of the vendor's permit." The policy requires vendors who need to use the bathroom to have another licensed vendor step in to keep an eye on the cart during their absence, or -- less likely given the economics of running hot nut carts -- hire someone to watch their cart. Gothamist reports that Sean Basinski of the Urban Justice Center's Street Vendor Project thinks the DOH is being inconsiderate of vendors' basic human needs. "As far as we know, there has never been a case of a vendor's food being contaminated while they've left to go to the toilet. I'm sure if some bad person wanted...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on February 26, 2010 (boomark / email).