{"id":158985,"date":"2026-03-10T10:08:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/158985\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T10:08:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T10:08:53","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-decriminalization-of-street-vending-soon-to-be-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/158985\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Decriminalization of street vending soon to be law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decriminalization of street vending in New York City will soon be law.<\/p>\n<p>Local Law 122, the first bill from the Street Vendor Reform Package, will be enacted into law.<\/p>\n<p>The bill ensures that vendors will no longer receive a criminal misdemeanor for a vending-related violation. Vendors who hold licenses or permits can now only receive a civil penalty for violations, like most small businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, vendors who don\u2019t have licenses or permits will still receive a ticket but will no longer face the threat of a judge issuing a criminal misdemeanor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The decriminalization of street vending in New York City will soon be law. Local Law 122, the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,9874,5899],"class_list":["post-158985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-street-vendor","tag-street-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}