- Vendors bid for spots around parks. One vendor paid $415k last year for a spot outside the Met and didn’t go out of business, so he must have made over $440k (to cover overhead).
- Non-park vendors only pay for a $200 permit. There are only 3100 food vendor permits, so there are permit scalpers and a black market.
- A street vendor organization says average vendors make about $15k a year after permits and ticket fines for multiple violations.
How can New York City hot dog vendors afford to pay half a million dollars in rent?
