Photo Essay: Street Vendors in Queens, New York City
Women street vendors sell a variety of sizzling meat, fried food, and aquas frescas along Roosevelt Avenue under the 7-train in Corona, Queens, New York, in the late afternoon on Tuesday, December 12, 2023.Lupita Paredes poses in front of a freshly prepared mushroom tlayuda with oaxaca, a traditional Mexican melting cheese, in the early afternoon of Saturday, December 9, 2023.A New York Police Department van sits double-parked in front of Corona Plaza on 103rd Street and Roosevelt Avenue under the 7-train line in Corona, Queens, New York, in the early afternoon of Tuesday, December 12, 2023.A man sells baked goods from a shopping cart below the 103rd Street-Corona Plaza station as people funnel down the stairs from the 7-train at the end of the workday on a cold afternoon – Tuesday, December 12, 2023. A mother and son chat with a woman selling grilled corn, thick French fries, and crispy chicken at one of the many makeshift sidewalk-vending stands under the 7-train along Roosevelt Avenue in Corona, Queens, New York, in the early evening on Saturday, December 9, 2023.A woman organizes the candy displayed in her vending cart stationed on the curb along Roosevelt Avenue in Corona, Queens, New York, on the evening of Tuesday, December 12, 2023. A vendor stands beside her shopping cart selling buckets of fresh bouquets on the corner of Corona Plaza in Corona, Queens, New York, in the early afternoon of Tuesday, December 13, 2023.A woman sits with her sons selling homeopathic ointments and oils from a cart along Roosevelt Avenue under the roaring 7-train in Corona, Queens, New York, in the early afternoon of Tuesday, December 13, 2023.A woman with a baby on her back and her son by her side buys an early dinner from a vendor on the sidewalk selling food from a tinfoil-clad shopping cart under the 7-train stairwell on Roosevelt Avenue in Corona, Queens, New York, on Tuesday, December 12, 2023.Midday foot traffic rolls past a mobile vendor selling smoothies and fresh fruit on Roosevelt Avenue in Corona, Queens, New York, on Tuesday, December 12, 2023.Two women vendors stand beside their mobile cooking cart, plastered with posters of Ecuador’s flag, shouting their sales pitch in Spanish, trying to entice passing people to taste their famous fried pork belly and aquas frescas, a traditional fruit juice popular in Mexico, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Ecuador, in the late afternoon on Tuesday, December 13, 2023.A man walks past a line of mobile food vendors along the perimeter of Corona Plaza, parallel to National Street, in the early afternoon in Corona, Queens, New York, on Tuesday, December 12, 2023.A group of men play dominos in Corona Plaza in Corona, Queens, New York, in the early afternoon on Saturday, December 9, 2023.Locals walk past a line of vendors selling winter wear and plush play toys on the block preceding Corona Plaza at 103rd Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Corona, Queens, New York, midday on Saturday, December 9, 2023. The new regulations imposed on the union of vendors in Corona allow only 14 vendors to operate in the plaza, pushing others onto surrounding sidewalks.Rosario Troncoso, 51, president of the vendor’s association of Corona Plaza, shines a slight smile standing in front of the new city-regulated vendor tents, midday in Corona, Queens, New York – Saturday, December 9, 2023. A sign written in Spanish on the perimeter of Corona Plaza reads, “A new square is proposed here,” in Corona, Queens, New York – Saturday, December 9, 2023.A father ties his squirming son’s left sneaker while sitting on a park bench in Corona Plaza in Corona, Queens, New York, in the early afternoon of Saturday, December 9, 2023. A line of vendors in uniform blue tents, doled out by the city, in Corona Plaza under the towering 7-train, 103rd Street-Corona Plaza station, in Corona, Queens, New York, before vendors close shop for the evening on Saturday, December 9, 2023.A mother and her son wait for their food outside an Ecuadorian mobile food stand on the perimeter of Corona Plaza while a man holding his bicycle prepares to order in Corona, Queens, New York, in the evening on Saturday, December 9, 2023.
Ashley Elizabeth Miller 
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