Hell’s Kitchen Flea Market Ripped for Lacking Permit and Vendor Complaints
(DNAINFO) Maya Rajamani | December 8, 2015 — The Hell’s Kitchen flea market has dragged its feet in securing an operating permit from the city, and now is dealing with disgruntled vendors who claim the owners are trying to squeeze them for cash.
With only a week left to approve or deny the flea market’s permit to operate in 2016, Community Board 4’s Quality of Life committee met Monday evening to hear owner Alan Boss’s plans to remedy issues with the market’s nonprofit sponsor and address vendor discontent that surfaced as the market’s permit comes up for renewal.
The city’s Street Activity Permit Office (SAPO) recently required markets like the Hell’s Kitchen Flea Market to have a “community sponsor,” such as a nonprofit organization with a relationship to the event location.