During one such arrest, police complained to Khatlan that street vendors made New York resemble Baghdad. In the early 1990s, Donald Trump led a jeremiad to close Fifth Avenue to street vendors. •••A labyrinthine bureaucracy governs a street vendor’s life. Immigrant vendors who don’t speak English face particular difficulties, said Angela Ni, a legal intern with the Street Vendors Project. Seeing his distress, a fellow food cart worker told him about the Street Vendors Project.

Source: The Guardian October 22, 2016 11:00 UTC