The process of approaching the street vendors in the Sunset Park area has been a challenge in terms of building trust over a short period of time. There were more vendors that were going to be involved but due to the fact that their stories are going to be made public some of the vendors opted to drop out of the project. As seen in Rosa Maria’s biography, there has been an increase of law enforcement that has cracked down on vendors without licenses as well as vendors with licenses with the tickets ranging from 600 to 1000 dollars (in some cases the price of the ticket is 3 weeks’ worth of work on a good day for street vendors). The following media files are portions of the interviews that was used for the walking-listening tour.
