{"id":90,"date":"2022-04-14T18:31:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T18:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/?p=90"},"modified":"2022-05-09T18:48:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T18:48:41","slug":"90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/2022\/04\/14\/90\/","title":{"rendered":"IN THE NEWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>April 14, 2022:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2022\/04\/council-member-ung-dcwp-street-vendor-flushing\/\">Councilwoman, DCWP Commissioner Discuss Growing Street Vendor Presence<\/a>, <em>QNS<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/queenspost.com\/council-member-sandra-ung-discusses-street-vendor-complaints-in-downtown-flushing\">Council Member Ung Discusses Street Vendor Complaints in Flushing<\/a>, <em>Queens Post<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Queens Councilwoman&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/district-20\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sandra Ung<\/a>&nbsp;and Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) Commissioner&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/site\/dca\/about\/commissioner.page\" target=\"_blank\">Vilda Vera Mayuga<\/a>&nbsp;walked through Main Street in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2022\/04\/queens-councilwoman-dot-commissioner-transportation-issues-downtown-flushing\/\">downtown Flushing<\/a>&nbsp;on April 12 to discuss the proliferation of street vendors in the area. Ung expressed concern over the growing number of vendors and several businesses using the sidewalk space to sell their merchandise. The lawmaker said that both of these factors have made it difficult for people to navigate walking along the sidewalks. \u201cThe goal here is not to be punitive, but rather to ensure that our sidewalks are clear and safe,\u201d Ung said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>April 14, 2022:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2022\/04\/council-member-ung-dcwp-street-vendor-flushing\/\">Councilwoman, DCWP Commissioner Discuss Growing Street Vendor Presence<\/a>, <em>QNS<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/queenspost.com\/council-member-sandra-ung-discusses-street-vendor-complaints-in-downtown-flushing\">Council Member Ung Discusses Street Vendor Complaints in Flushing<\/a>, <em>Queens Post<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Queens Councilwoman&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/district-20\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sandra Ung<\/a>&nbsp;and Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) Commissioner&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/site\/dca\/about\/commissioner.page\" target=\"_blank\">Vilda Vera Mayuga<\/a>&nbsp;walked through Main Street in&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/2022\/04\/14\/90\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/sandra-ung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}