New York City will ban vendors from the Brooklyn Bridge starting Wednesday. The move is intended to ease overcrowding on the famed East River crossing, where dozens of souvenir sellers currently compete for space with tourists and city commuters.

Visitors to New York City hoping to take home a souvenir from the Brooklyn Bridge will now have to settle for a photograph, as vendors are about to be banned from the iconic span.

The new rule, which goes into effect Wednesday, aims to ease overcrowding on the bridge’s heavily trafficked pedestrian walkway, where dozens of trinket sellers currently compete for space with tourists and city commuters.

As crowds flocked to the bridge over the holiday season, the situation turned dangerous, according to New York City Mayor Eric Adams. He pointed to videos that showed pedestrians leaping from the elevated walkway onto a bike lane several feet below in order to bypass a human traffic jam.

  • FiveMacs
    2•9 months ago

    I bet the telecom companies could setup a booth and sell their overpriced services without being hassled

    I’m aware it’s good to remove the useless clutter vendors selling junk. They did something similar here and banned all door to door sales, except if you have a monopoly on telecom. Then it’s somehow legal