Street vendors gone from Brooklyn Bridge as NYC enforces ban aimed at pedestrian safety

Street vendors were gone from the Brooklyn Bridge on Wednesday as the city enforced a ban aimed at improving pedestrian safety on the iconic East River crossing that is a popular tourist destination. Dozens of street vendors hawking art, food and tourist tchotchkes crowded the bridge’s Manhattan approaches until they were cleared out under the new city regulation, which was first proposed in ...

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