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Monday 14 November 2011

‘Corner’ market owes city $1M

It’s Midtown’s million-dollar corner -- for food-vendor scofflaws.

Just five vendors operating on 54th Street and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan have racked up close to $1 million in outstanding fines in the past 12 months, court records show.

That’s nearly a tenth of the total $10.45 million in outstanding violations issued citywide in the past year.

“If you’re sending someone out to [find scofflaws], they’re not going to have to go all over town,” said Owen Stone, a spokesman for the Department of Finance, the agency in charge of collecting the fines.   Full Read

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