What It Takes to Treat Serious Mental Illness
PBS
"Reporter Nichole Currie meets an applicant who was finally able to access benefits after connecting with an advocate with the Urban Justice Center’s Mental Health Project."
Queens Street Vendors Fight Back as NYPD Crushes Food Carts
Documented NY
"Street Vendor Project’s Deputy Director Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez says that when they destroyed the vendors’ carts without an opportunity to contest the seizure, the 115th Precinct repeatedly violated the due process clause of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution..."‘No Somos Criminales’
Queens Latino
"La conferencia de prensa fue organizada por Street Vendor Project del Urban Justice Center. Argumentan que la policía viola la enmienda 14 de la Constitución y los protocolos de vales de propiedad."
No Criminal Charges for Rikers Guards Who Failed to Save Bleeding Man, AG Says
Gothamist
"No one should be sent to a place where guards aren't required — and aren't compelled by their own sense of humanity — to try to save someone who is bleeding to death," Darren Mack [cofounder of Freedom Agenda] said.Street Vendors Gather in Corona to Protest Alleged Harassment by NYPD
Jackson Heights Post
“We very rarely see incidents like this,” said Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez, deputy director of Street Vendor Project. “The NYPD should have have taken the property back to the precinct... [not] thrown her property directly into the trash.”NYPD Violated Laws When Policing Street Vendors, Advocates Say
Queens Daily Eagle
“If something was confiscated the way that it was, in this case, the vendors should have by law, the ability to go through a process of defending their rights,” Street Vendor Project’s Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez told reporters on Monday.Street Vendors Protest Against Over-Policing in New York City
Pix 11
"The protesters, who are members of the Street Vendor Project organization, said that the NYPD 115th Precinct, in particular, overpoliced the vendors in eastern Queens. They noted that overzealous enforcement is an issue city-wide."Street Vendors In Queens Contend the NYPD Is Illegally Trashing Their Seized Carts
Gothamist
"Alvarado is among at least five vendors along Junction Boulevard in Corona whose carts have been confiscated and trashed by the NYPD in recent weeks, according to the Street Vendor Project, an advocacy group."
Fifth Person Dies at Rikers Island
Queens Chronicle
"In response to the death of Anthony Jordan, 63, Darren Mack, co-director of Freedom Agenda, one of the many grassroots organizations leading the Campaign to Close Rikers, issued a statement. “It’s past time for Mayor Adams, district attorneys, and judges to stop sending people to a known death camp, and take every necessary action to shut it down as the law requires.”Largest Street Vendor Protest in Decades Calls for More Permits, Less Enforcement
New Amsterdam News
"Most participants at the Aug. 15 event were street vendors themselves, like the Street Vendor Project’s Calvin Baker. Baker sells general merchandise on Harlem’s 125th Street, an age-old corridor for Black street vendors in New York City."