Immigrant street vendors have been setting up shop on Fifth Avenue in Sunset Park for decades. A pecking order loosely allocates the spaces, but the setup is not worry free.
An impromptu street market in a Brooklyn park was a lifeline for immigrants during the pandemic. But then came complaints and conflicts, and then the police.
‘We just want a dignified place to sell,’ one vendor at the unpermitted Brooklyn pop-up market implored at a community meeting that drew more than 100 attendees.
Organizers of Plaza Tonatiuh in Sunset Park say they will continue to gather in the nabe’s namesake park without vendors after police and parks department