NEW YORK CITY — A new bill could allow street vendors who sold goods along New York City bridges to come back after being banned from doing so earlier this year.
On January 2, street vendors were banned from conducting business in the pathway of the Brooklyn Bridge as well as any of New York City's other 789 bridges. Mayor Eric Adams had called the ban "not only a sanitary issue" but a "public safety issue" as well. Since then, police officers have been stationed in pairs along the bridges to prevent street vendors from selling. Signs that read "no vending allowed" have also been displayed.
