41. Sidewalk vendors and informal markets choke city streets, obstructing traffic and strangling established businesses. 42. Sidewalk vendors continue to sell household wares, gasoline in pint bottles and other goods, and buildings pockmarked by bullets and those that are just crumbling go unrepaired. 43. Sidewalk vendors do not have the courage to refuse to pay illegal levies collected by hoodlums and corrupt officials, Subur said. 44. Some New Yorkers have found the throngs of tourists and sidewalk vendors peddling trade center memorabilia distasteful. 45. Sutiyoso acknowledged that the Peruri complex should be secure at all times and sidewalk vendors were prohibited from operating and displaying their merchandise there. 46. The bus shelter was crowded with passengers, creating a long queue dotted with sidewalk vendors, and buses were forced to line up. 47. The city council is now mostly known for fisticuffs during its sessions, shady land deals and unleashing its police on hapless sidewalk vendors. 48. The city council is now mostly known for scuffles during its sessions, shady land deals and unleashing police on hapless sidewalk vendors. 49. The illegal levies imposed daily on sidewalk vendors, for example, should be stopped, he said. 50. Two Gypsy vendors at the Monastiraki flea market opened fire on two other sidewalk vendors whom they accused of cheating them, injuring both. |