Best street-cart food finalists picked for Vendy Awards
Finalists for this year’s Vendy Awards — “the Oscars of street carts” — have been announced, setting up New York City’s street-cart food vendors for another showdown.
Fauzia Abdur-Rahman from “Fauzia’s Delights”
161st Street and Sheridan Avenue, Bronx
Meru Sikder from “Biriyani Cart”
46th Street & Sixth Avenue, Manhattan
Mohammed Rahman from “Kwik Meal”
45th Street & Sixth Avenue, Manhattan
Rafael Soler from “Soler Dominican”
Clinton Street & Bay Street, Brooklyn (weekends only)
The Vendley Brothers (Jesse, Brian, Dave) from “Calexico Carne Asada”
Wooster & Prince Streets, Manhattan
The awards will be announced October 18 at a cook-out at the Tobacco Warehouse at Dumbo’s Empire Ferry Fulton State Park. Tickets for the fund-raiser (there’s food!) start at $80.
The event, now in its fourth year, is organized by the Urban Justice Center’s non-profit Street Vendor Project.
