Art Murmur cracks down on street vendors
Excerpt from sign posted at 23rd and Telegraph. See the full sign at the bottom. Street vendors at the July 6, 2012 Art Murmur were in for a surprise. As many were setting up their tables on the Telegraph Ave. sidewalks between West Grand and 25th Street, security officers came by with flyers informing them that next month Oakland Police will be handing out tickets to people tabling and selling art and food on the sidewalks. 23rd Street was no longer blocked off for f ood vendors in July, and food vendors are restricted to the new "Eat Up" food pod at 21st and Telegraph. The sign and flyer handed out to vendors instructs those who sell art, jewelry, books, and other hand-made items to sell them in Rock Paper Scissors or the 25th Street Collective . The issue with this is that both of those mixed-use spaces are full of vendors, and there's likely a waiting list to get in. These two venues couldn't hold the dozens of additional street vendors, which typically l...