The Street Vendor Project, an organization advocating on behalf of vendors throughout New York City, has criticized former Mayor Eric Adams for vetoing 19 Council-approved bills on his final day in office, including legislation that would lift the cap on the number of street vending licenses available in the city.
Adams, who issued the 11th-hour vetoes just hours before he left office on New Year’s Eve, said the 19 bills ran “directly counter to [his] North Star of lifting up working-class New Yorkers,” stating that a series of bills known as the Street Vendor Reform Package would “undermine” small businesses in the city with a “new licensing regime for street vendors.”
