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Bklink: Fruit Cart Guy Wins in Brooklyn Heights

August 13th, 2008 · No Comments

link-asterisk.jpgThe owner of a fruit cart who drew the ire of the Brooklyn Heights Association has won. “It looks like the fruit and vegetable cart on the historic Brooklyn Heights streetcorner is here to stay, even after the Brooklyn Heights Association filed a complaint with the city. ‘I’m going to be here forever,’ one of the cart’s owners, Onur Benirbaz, told the Daily News. ‘Of course I do have a permit.’ The cart’s sudden appearance on the corner of Henry and Clark Sts. two weeks ago spurred a small controversy in the tony neighborhood. ‘He’s parked near a deli and a store that sells fruit,’ said Judy Stanton, head of the Brooklyn Heights Association…Stanton’s office filed the complaint about the cart, thinking vendors weren’t allowed on Henry St. That is not the case, according to the Health Department.–NYDN

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