© MOLLY WILHELM / STARNEWS / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
(New York, NY) — Mayor Adams is vetoing city council legislation that would decriminalize illegal street vending. The city council passed a law last month, protecting unlicensed street vendors from facing misdemeanor charges or jail time for selling food or goods on the streets. But Adams says that the bill, known as Intro 47-B, prevents the NYPD from doing their job and poses public health and safety risks to New Yorkers.
Mayor Adams says the city council, which passed the bill in a vote of 40 yeses to eight no’s, is being far too idealistic. The city council already has enough votes to override the mayor’s veto.
Nearly all the city’s street vendors are immigrants, according to a recent report by the Immigration Research Initiative.
