Isabel Rosario Testimony: Street Vendors Project
Isabel Rosario, a street vendor and board member of the Street Vendors Project, testifies (via translator) about the mutual benefits of public space activation and supports year-round outdoor dining.
Soy parte de la Junta Directiva del Projecto de Vendedore Ambulante.
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Okay, no se pondra.
My name is Isabel, and I'm working as a street vendor in the city of New York for a period of around 18 years.
I'm also member of the board of directors of the uh street vendors project here in New York City.
Okay, well I continue to score.
Vendedora que trabaja in el espacio publico.
It's something different in Spanish dialect.
So it was something different in Spanish or Spain, my apologies.
Restaurante y vended in general.
Okay, they have my something with her reading, my apologies, okay.
Okay.
And here in New York City to open the program for outdoor restaurants, right?
As a street street vendor, and I wanted to work in public spaces because I wanted I wanted to be able to survive well with the restaurants together.
And with the restaurants together and with the street vendors, sometimes what is happening is she is generating a lot of traffic traffic, like pedestrian traffic.
And we wanted to benefit mutually about this.
So that's why I was asking some explanations, right?
To her.
So basically she wanted to say she wanted to be able to survive, you know, using this outdoor restaurant because sometimes it's a lot of pedestrian traffic because of this, you know.
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No, and look, it's on mystic here.
You notice she carries coaches where uh she appreciates courses in the restaurants because all usually not uh generating the child.
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Right?
Okay.
She's going to read now the third part, okay?
Okay.
Okay.
Patrocina lo pequeño negocio de todo la ciudad.
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Together we're going to attract the clients who support the small businesses in the entire city.
Okay.
And requesting to the city of New York to allow that the outdoor restaurants are going to fulfill with specific rules and they will remain open during the entire year.
I'm going to ask you to please wrap up.
And you can submit that testimony.
Oh, she can submit it in writing.
Okay, I got it.
She has some problems with her reading, my apologies.
Oh no, no, no problem.
It's just that we give everyone the same amount of time.
So she can submit that in writing, not a problem.
Okay.
Council, I'm going to continue.
They're going to switch the C's so we're able to interpret it better.
Okay.