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Discussion on trends and locations of criminal summonses issued to street vendors
6:04:07
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Council Member Alexa Avilés and Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez discuss the trends and locations where criminal summonses are being issued to street vendors across New York City. They also touch on the roles of different enforcement agencies.
- Criminal summonses are being issued citywide, including in Times Square, Sunset Park, South Bronx, and Corona.
- The NYPD is issuing criminal summonses, while the Department of Sanitation, the lead enforcement agency, only issues civil summonses.
- There's a discrepancy between what NYPD has told Council Member Avilés and the actual data on criminal summonses being issued.
Alexa Avilés
6:04:07
And are you seeing particular trends in neighborhoods across the city where you're seeing spikes in criminal summonses?
Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez
6:04:16
We're seeing it citywide.
6:04:18
We've seen it in Times Square with halal carts being issued criminal summonses for not having a price display.
6:04:26
We're seeing it in Sunset Park on Eighth Ave to the primarily Chinese speaking vendors.
6:04:31
We're seeing it in Third Avenue in the hub in the South Bronx.
6:04:35
We're seeing it in Corona.
6:04:36
It's citywide.
6:04:38
And, all of those numbers I mentioned are from NYPD, which is not the lead enforcement agency of street vending.
6:04:44
That's the Department of Sanitation, which has said on record in front of the council here in previous hearings that they will only issue civil summonses, not criminal summonses.
Alexa Avilés
6:04:56
That was sanitation.
Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez
6:04:59
Correct, which is
Alexa Avilés
6:04:59
NYPD hasn't said such a thing, although they have said to me that they don't issue criminal summonses for these kinds of things.
6:05:08
Yes.
6:05:09
Thank you.
6:05:09
Thank you.
6:05:10
Thank you.