NYC Street Vendor Project Launches Scavenger Hunt
NBC NY
“Want to support New York City’s most familiar hawkers? Lauren Scala reports on the New York City’s Street Vendor Project launching a scavenger hunt.”NYC’s New Housing Voucher Rules Will Drastically Expand Income Eligibility for Renewals
City Limits
“This is basically what we were asking for. It’s a really, really, really big win,” said Sarah Wilson, an organizer with the Urban Justice Center’s Safety Net Project. “You can take a job that pays $20 an hour and not risk losing your housing."
The New York Women’s Foundation Announces Fall Grantmaking Efforts
PR Newswire
"Investing in the power of women, girls, and gender-expansive people to create an equitable and just future, The New York Women's Foundation announces nearly half a million dollars in its latest round of grantmaking... Grantee partners [including] the Sex Workers Project...center the voices and experiences of those most marginalized in civic and political spheres, including Black and Latinx women, youth of color, and cis- and transgender people of color in the sex work industry.”La Colombe Brews Up First-Ever NYC Roastery on the LES
Eater NY
“Non-profit the Street Vendor Project, which advocates for the rights of New York City’s street vendors, has launched a new way to support its members. On November 14, the organization is hosting a food-centric scavenger hunt. There’s a mobile app to download that maps out where to find samples across the city.
The trouble with the correction union: It’s a cheerleader for mass incarceration
NY Daily News
“The prison-industrial complex is and has always been at odds with the labor movement, whose leaders have made it perfectly clear where their loyalties lie: with the victims of mass incarceration, not its facilitators. COBA may use the language of labor, but it is not defending the rights of its workers. It is defending the system of mass incarceration that continues to give them influence.”NYC Street Vendor Project launches a citywide scavenger hunt to help local vendors rebound
6SQFT
“Beginning November 14, street food lovers are invited to join their favorite food carts and treats trucks for the first-ever NYC Street Vendor Scavenger Hunt. Participants will get to compete in fun challenges, meet the vendors and, of course, sample the food, to win prizes and help support the Street Vendor Project of the Urban Justice Center–the city’s only street vendor organization.”Street Vendor project opens registration for scavenger hunt
Queens Daily Eagle
“The Street Vendor Project is celebrating the work of street vendors as community staples next month with a citywide game. The NYC Street Vendor Scavenger Hunt will kick off with a gathering in Corona Plaza on Nov. 14, to invite participants to meet vendors, try new foods and win prizes.”‘When did you become God?’ Protesters press Bronx DA Clark to act as Rikers Island death toll hits 14
AM NY
“With deaths and life-changing injuries continuing to occur at an alarming rate, the advocate groups consisting of #HaltSolitary Campaign, the Freedom Agenda, and more called for the prison to be decarcerated before the number reaches 15.”Street Vendor Scavenger Hunt to Kick Off in Corona Plaza Next Month
Sunnyside Post
“The Street Vendor Project said it created the scavenger hunt as a way to encourage New Yorkers to visit their local vendors and help the industry recover from the economic fall-out of COVID-19, while also supporting the organization with its mission to support street vendors.”New York’s $2.1B Excluded Workers Fund will soon run out. Will it get a boost?
LoHud
Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez, deputy director of the Street Vendor Project, said the fund exists because immigrant workers and their communities across the state fought for it. "For this program to be a true success," she added, "Governor Hochul must ensure that every excluded worker who needs assistance receives it.”