Street Vendors Push Back as NYPD Raids Ramp Up

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Street Vendors Push Back as NYPD Raids Ramp Up

After back-to-back NYPD sweeps along Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, street vendors on Thursday marched to City Hall and the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection to demand that City Council pass a law to lift the cap on street vending licenses — which for general merchandise sellers have been limited to 853 since 1979. The NYPD raids on the busy drag between Jackson Heights and Corona made headlines Monday and Tuesday, and continued into Wed…