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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Isabelle, Street Vendor and Board Member of Street Vendors Project
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3 min
Isabelle, a street vendor and board member of the Street Vendors Project, testifies about the outdoor dining program in New York City. She expresses support for the program and discusses how street vendors and restaurants can coexist in public spaces, despite some challenges with pedestrian traffic.
- Isabelle has been a street vendor in New York City for about 18 years
- She supports the outdoor dining program and believes it can help businesses survive
- She requests that the City of New York allow outdoor restaurants to remain open year-round, subject to specific rules
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3:06:31
Okay.
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My name is Isabelle.
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And I'm working as street vendor in the City Of New York for a period of around eighteen years.
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And also member of the board of directors of the street vendors project here in New York City.
3:07:31
It's something it's a different Spanish dialect.
3:07:34
So it was something different in Spanish or Spain.
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My apologies.
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She happened somehow with her reading.
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My apologies.
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Okay?
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Okay.
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I'm here in New York City to open the program for outdoor restaurants.
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Right?
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As a street vendor, I wanted to work in public spaces because I wanted to be able to survive well with the restaurants together.
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And with the restaurants together and with the street vendors, sometimes what is happening is generating a lot of traffic, like pedestrian traffic.
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And we wanted to benefit mutually about this.
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I'm sorry, counsel.
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Some mistakes in the Spanish.
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So that's why I was asking some explanations, right, to her.
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Okay.
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So basically, she wanted to say she wanted to be able to survive, you know, using this outdoor restaurants because sometimes there's a lot pedestrian traffic because of this.
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Know?
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Okay.
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Look.
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It's not listed here.
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Did you notice?
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Okay.
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Spanish grammar mistakes in her letter.
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This is what happened.
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Right?
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That was what was saying.
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Okay.
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She's going to read now the third part.
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Okay?
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Okay.
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Together we're going to attract the clients who support the small businesses in the entire city.
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Okay.
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And requesting to the City Of New York to allow that the outdoor restaurants are going to fulfill with specific rules and they will remain open during the entire year.