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Look for Red Hook Vendors Next Weekend
Posted 07/11/08 in Grub Street: NewsFeed
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No Red Hook Vendors This Weekend, But Still Plenty to Eat
Posted 07/03/08 in Grub Street: NewsFeed
Maybe the weekend of the 12th?
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Cesar Fuentes Ponders the Effects of Ikea on the Red Hook Vendors
Posted 06/24/08 in Grub Street: NewsFeed
Brian Lehrer talked to Fuentes about what the future holds for the vendors.
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Can I Take My Parents to the Red Hook Vendors This Weekend?
Posted 06/13/08 in Grub Street: The In-box
Maybe not this weekend — or next weekend.
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Summer Preview: Red Hook Vendors
Posted 06/03/08 in Grub Street: NewsFeed
The vendors' main man looks at the big picture.
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Red Hook Vendors Three Weeks Away
Posted 05/27/08 in Grub Street: NewsFeed
Mid-June at the earliest, says the vendors' official rep.
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Red Hook Vendors Coming to Brooklyn Flea
Posted 05/12/08 in Grub Street: NewsFeed
The new Fort Greene market welcomes the city's favorite Mexican and Central American vendors.
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Red Hook Spokesman Strikes Back, Puts Down Coup
Posted 10/01/07 in Grub Street: NewsFeed
The Times reported dissension among the Red Hook vendors, and we were surprised. But not as surprised as Cesar Fuentes, who was furious when we talked with him over the weekend. “This wasn’t really dissension,” Fuentes says. “It was more of a coup d’état.” Seriously? What's going on in Red Hook?
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No Rest for the Red Hook Vendors; Bourdain Considers 'Top Chef' Episode a Waste
Posted 09/28/07 in Grub Street: Mediavore
Can the Red Hook Vendors never rest? Now Cesar Fuentes is causing concern for resigning and threatening to sue the same people he represented. [NYT] Bourdain considers Wednesday’s Top Chef a waste, as the producers snagged Eric Ripert only to “shoehorn him into a Scout jamboree” when “it would have been nice, given the all-too-rare presence of a distinguished specialist, to see what the kids could REALLY do with fish.” And why won't Hung cook Vietnamese? [Bourdain’s Blog/Bravo] Discrimination lawyer Marc Rapaport is surprised by his own defense of O’Reilly in a Times op-ed about the Sylvia’s incident, saying “it is apparent from [his comments’] context that O’Reilly was actually attempting to dispel racial stereotypes regarding African-Americans.” [PR Web]
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Senator Schumer Springs to the Red Hook Vendors’ Defense Again
Posted 08/28/07 in Grub Street: NewsFeed
Another weekend went by without incident for the Red Hook food vendors, and don’t think we’re not happy about it. We’re grateful, too, because there’s reason to believe that the intervention of Senator Chuck Schumer halted the bulldozers of the Department of Health, much as he did the incipient threat from the Parks Department some weeks ago. Vendor representative Cesar Fuentes tells us that Schumer wrote Dr. Thomas Frieden, the department’s commissioner, thanking them for consideration and leniency. Fuentes, though, doesn’t feel that the vendors are out of the woods and not just because of the DOH: “As the deadline for our current TUA permit looms near, NYC Parks Dept. has not -as of yet- issued an extension for our operation to continue beyond Sept 8th and until the expected end of our season on Oct. 28th. As we are still hopeful this permit extension will be granted, we trust the Parks Dept. earlier decision to extend such permit is still in place -that it has not backed out of its decision, but just delayed it for unknown reasons...” The Parks Department to the left of them, the DOH to the right, on rode the food vendors. Senator Schumer's letter to the Department of Health [pdf] Earlier: Red Hook Vendors Make It Official: Their Fingers Are Crossed
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Red Hook Vendors Make It Official: Their Fingers Are Crossed
Posted 08/22/07 in Grub Street: NewsFeed
Cesar Fuentes, the official face of the Red Hook food vendors, released a statement today, detailing some of the specifics of the vendors' arrangement with the Department of Health. Though there’s little here Cesar didn’t tell us about the other day, the upshot of it seems to be that the vendors and the DOH are trying to work it all out and that the former has a shot at not getting shut down before the season ends. We hope so. That isn’t to say it’s a lock, and we would feel better if the statement included word of an actual promise by the DOH not to break out the bleach and shutdown notices. But we’re pulling for them. The full release is below.
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Is This the Last Saturday for the Red Hook Vendors?
Posted 08/14/07 in Grub Street: NewsFeed
Things have looked dire for the Red Hook vendors for much of the summer, with first the Parks Department and then the Department of Health threatening their future. As Porkchop Express reported last week, the DOH popped in for a surprise inspection and was shocked — shocked! — to find no running water there. So will the situation be remedied by this weekend, when inspectors are rumored to show up again? Doubtful, says vendor representative Cesar Fuentes. “They want us to have hot and cold running water, a refrigerated truck to store food in, all the food prepared either in a restaurant or in a DOH-approved preparation facility, and a lot of other things.”
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