New Yorkers in the past decade or so have become masters at waiting on long lines. We'll wait on line for food, for phones, for opera tickets, for TV show screenings, even to look (and just look) at clothing. How serious do we take our lines? So seriously that New Yorkers have been known to literally cut line cutters. Luckily (we guess), when Anderson Cooper's daytime talk show sent a reporter out to cut some food cart lines in midtown that didn't happen. But it still led to some humorous moments: more ›

A Queens food vendor who allegedly used the power of a foreign name to help him escape from $90,000 in health violations has been busted, after switching one too many letters around. It's kind of like that time no one knew how to spell "Gadhafi", but with more street meat. more ›

Earlier this week, we heard the rumblings of some new legislation designed to curb the spread of mobile food vendors, who have already been facing down opponents in Midtown, the Upper West Side and Park Slope. Today, the Post reports that UWS Councilwoman Gale Brewer has indeed introduced a new bill, requiring the Department of Health to report the number of permits it issues each year to food trucks and carts, as part of a larger plan to regulate trucks overall. We spoke to Brewer to find out what exactly her beef with food trucks and carts is: more ›

The latest group to complain about mobile food vendors are none other than cabbies, who claim that trucks and carts are crowding taxi stands around Columbus Circle, costing them precious fares from the hordes of shoppers burdened with bags from Stuart Weitzman. And DNAinfo reports that City Councilwoman Gale Brewer is taking up their cause. more ›

The battle over Midtown lunch real estate continues today, with food carts expressing little sympathy for the larger food trucks that have been driven out of the neighborhood by cops suddenly enforcing an ancient Transportation Department regulation. more ›

Not every street vendor is a racist bigot who doesn't wash their hands and sleeps in their carts. And to prove it, a 21-year-old pushcart vendor who works his father's coffee and donuts cart did an AMA question-and-answer on Reddit this weekend. more ›

It can't always be easy to be a street vendor—if they're not tumbling and tussling with each other for real estate, then they're probably trying to hold it in. It's a tiring job, you have to deal with lots of unsavory characters and you're probably not washing your hands enough. But that's no reason to throw the whole world under the bus, like Upper West Side vendor Mohamed Abdalla did today in a rant to the Post where he railed against all his enemies, including "homosexuals," "Jewish people," ignorant bureaucrats, "rich people" and freebie-seeking doormen. more ›

It's rough out there for a street vendor. Three men were arrested recently after allegedly threatening to kill a rival halal food vendor if he didn't find a new corner to work. Yacine Aouimer, 36, and two accomplices are accused of attacking Mohamed Ismail, 34, at knifepoint in Crotona Park in March, holding the knife to his throat and yelling, "If I see you again, I will kill you!" Police sources tell the Post they also stole $422 from Ismail's apron pocket, then slashed a tire on his food cart for good measure. more ›

Despite dispatching 84 fresh produce carts all over Brooklyn, those located in low-income areas aren't doing so well. Though they're often one of the only places to find fresh fruit and vegetables in the area, one vendor in Bed-Stuy told the Daily News that in a half hour "I haven't sold one penny." The city made 350 permits available for carts in Brooklyn, but has been having a hard time getting vendors to bite, with food policy coordinator Ben Thomases already having said, "It's a good business...you are not going to get rich doing it." Well, with that kind of endorsement... more ›

A woman who dropped a hundred dollar bill somewhere near a food cart at East 58th St. and Lexington had the money returned to her! The Daily News reports that an unidentified man found the bill on the sidewalk Monday and gave it to Egyptian immigrant food cart operator Emad Youssef. The vendor then turned it over to Rochelle Meyers, his distraught customer, when she returned the next day. Myers, an infertility clinic administrator from Jersey, needed the money for a new cell phone. “[Youssef] really restored my faith in human beings,” she tells the News. Youssef declares, “I'm Christian. In my religion, if I take somebody's money, it's haram [forbidden]. If I find any money and don't find the person, I give [it] to police." more ›