New York City artists that are known as street vendors and have routinely sold their work in NYC’s Union Square have been fighting for their first amendment rights so they can continue to sell their work:
On Friday, April 4, a Parks Department official approached artists who had set up in the park and told them that, due to the construction of the private restaurant in the north pavilion, they would not be allowed to sell their art on Wednesdays and Saturdays, two of the most popular days for artists to sell their work, and that the artists were to vacate the park.
