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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Julie Torres Moskovitz, Architect and Urban Designer, on Street Vending Reform
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Julie Torres Moskovitz, an architect and urban designer from Brooklyn, testifies in support of street vending reform. She emphasizes the importance of vendors to the city's fabric and calls for fixing the dysfunctional system, lifting caps on permits, and supporting small businesses.
- Advocates for passing Intro 431 and Intro 408, as well as the broader reform package
- Criticizes the current enforcement system as ineffective and calls for fair, just, and efficient policies
- Urges the City Council and mayor to take action, expressing faith in their ability to solve the vending issues
Julie Torres Moskovitz
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Thank you.
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The city fabric depends on vendors for food, for convenience, for safety, and for livelihood.
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It's about small business.
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I am a small business person here too, and an architect and urban designer.
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My name is Julie Torres Moskovitz, and I live and work in Brooklyn.
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Vendors make the city unique and special, but the system is so dysfunctional, inefficient, plagued with underground market and discrimination of vendors.
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As a citizen, as someone who loves democracy and our government here, this is a challenge for us, we the people, to take on and resolve because underground markets, agency enforcement switcheroos, disorganized leadership that hurts vendors and the public has gone on way too long.
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City Council and the mayor, I implore you to fix this, and thank you for having this hearing.
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When you put your collective mind to it, you can do it.
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I'm here to be an enthusiastic supporter for you, that you are my representatives, And there's only three of you sitting there now, but I'm hoping the rest of the city council hears this.
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The answers are in the air here today.
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The summons is an enforcement is a farce when the system is so broken.
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Lift the caps entirely.
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Make it fair, just, and efficient.
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Let small business thrive.
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Support all of us in the city by supporting Intro four thirty one and Intro four zero eight and the reform package.
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Intro four zero eight for SBS to help small business is critical.
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Vendors are small businesses.
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Making permits available for a small business needs to be a given.
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A government for the people, by the people, and of the people as Lincoln says up there on the ceiling.
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There should not be a lack of will here.
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You are serving us the people and there should be an exciting policy and operational challenge to solve and make success, vibrancy and thriving happen that all of us appreciate and that marks you in history as great at doing your job.
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Dysfunction is not something we the people appreciate.
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You can do this and in fact you must.
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Anything short of that is failure.
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I wish more city council were here today and happy to hear that 25 co signed, but it should be every city council Please conclude.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank And I really have faith in you.
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You can solve this for us.