Posted by José Peralta on Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
WCBS reports
State Senator Jose Peralta will introduce legislation this week that would require local health departments to implement a letter-grading system for street vendors, similar to the current restaurant grading system.
Posted by José Peralta on Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
WABC reports
Ever wonder about the cleanliness of your favorite street food cart? State Senator Jose Peralta is proposing that street vendors be forced to post health department letter grades like the ones in restaurant windows.
Posted by José Peralta on Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
Fox 5 reports
New York City restaurants get letter grades and now the city food carts may get the same. State Sen. Jose Peralta (D-Queens) is introducing legislation to require posted letter health grades for street vendors.
Posted by José Peralta on Thursday, December 8th, 2011
NY 1 reports
Queens Senator Jose Peralta is introducing a bill so that food carts get letter grades from the city Department of Health, akin to those received by restaurants.
Posted by José Peralta on Thursday, December 8th, 2011
Daily News reports
Bring on the Health Department letter grades, uptown food truck vendors and customers told the Daily News.
The reaction comes as State Sen. Jose Peralta proposed legislation last week which would require food trucks and carts to display letter grades similar to the ones posted in restaurants.
Posted by José Peralta on Thursday, July 19th, 2012
As reported by NY1:
“State Senator Jose Peralta and Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas rallied with community members in Astoria on Monday in support of the New York Family Leave Act, which would extend unpaid, job-protected maternity leave.”
Posted by José Peralta on Monday, October 15th, 2012
As reported by The New York Times:
… Today, prostitution and counterfeiting industries are tucked alongside the Mexican restaurants, Dominican bakeries, Colombian boutiques and the nightclubs where men — many of them new immigrants working to feed families left behind in their homelands — can buy the company of a woman by paying $2 for a dance.
… (Peralta) is also calling for a task force, similar to the one that decimated crime there in the ’90s, to be reconvened.
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