Friday, September 27, 2013

Pass on these vegetables


"Everyday at approximately 4:30 pm, I get to the Q13 bus in Flushing to go home- only to be greeted by this person selling vegetables! Now you would say who cares? People in Manhattan sell fruits and vegetables all the time!........But not like this!......This person as you can tell from the picture sells these vegetables just sitting on the ground in cardboard boxes! To make the situation even worst, today a police officer was walking on the other side of the street and he acted like he did not even see this disgusting site! As usual, the police in Flushing fail to reinforce the law! Way to go NYPD!" - anonymous

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

The parsnips are to die for.

Joe from Whitestone said...

You know what's even worse?
Do you know where they're grown?
Im pretty sure that these vegetables are grown on the side of the LIRR track running from Mainstreet to Woodside,and a little further west. I've been on the train lately and there's a miniture FARM going on over there, and there's no way it's for personal consumption. They are def selling it. I've seen boxes just like the ones you see there in the picture at harvest time.
SICK CRAP!!!!

Anonymous said...

Nah. These veggies are rejects from local restaurants.
They are retrieved by illegal immigrants after a long night of dumpster diving.

Anonymous said...

Welcome to the thirdworldification of NYC.

Look at the garbage moving in.

Anonymous said...

It seems none of you have lived outside of the USA. Vegetables and fruits are sold in that manner. The people buying them are healthier and live longer then most Americans, who by the way stuff themselves with so much fast food.

Anonymous said...

the LIRR finally tore out the cash crop garden on the side of the Woodside LIRR station run by Koreans. One of their churches is across the street. it's one thing for neighborhood residents to grow vegetable and flowers for themselves but it's another thing for aggressive Koreans to grab public land for private use. They figure that the Americans are stupid and don't know what they are doing.

Anonymous said...

lol i forgot all the italians and irish came here with papers. must've missed that one.

Anonymous said...

Oh, get over it. Apparently you delicate daisies don't seem to realize that vegetables tend to be grown in manure-filled dirt. And they are not magically transported to your supermarket in sterile cubes, untouched by human hands.

Anonymous said...

Regardless of who is growing these vegetables look at where they're being sold. You can't get anywhere around the Main St. area without tripping over a street vendor. The elected officials allow this to happen. They don't care!

Anonymous said...

"And they are not magically transported to your supermarket in sterile cubes, untouched by human hands."
No they are not. Much of our produce is trucked and warehoused in filthy and industrial Hunts Point market, where until recently a factory operated processing sewage treatment solids into fertilizer. There are also massive fuel oil transfer facilities, waste transfer facilities, garbage trains, and even a facility that processes regulated medical waste. Yum! There are actually bakeries and food production plants located right near the above mentioned facilities. And those packaged cakes in the supermarkets and grocery stores? If you saw some of the places those are made in you would long for some fresh veggies in a box on the ground.

Anonymous said...

The point of the article apparently is the fact that these are being sold not by a licensed street vendor but by another illegal vendor on the street and as the person said, the police do nothing to stop them! The police are always passing up those street vendors in flushing and dobt even check their vendor licenses!

The Flushing Phantom said...

If theses veggies were grown in the community garden (which many were) near Colden Street in Flushing, they are TOXIC!

THAT garden was to be intended ONLY to grow flowers.

Soil tests have shown high toxicity levels there.

So if you want to risk your health, by all means eat these veggies!

If they contain traces of Radium, you might not even need a night light to find your way to the bathroom.

Anonymous said...

Oh,
but we must not offend the illegal Asian street vendors selling questionable goods.

Anyway,
isn't it usually their own kind that buys this stuff?

So,
Westerners not need worry.

Anonymous said...


All the useless crap you people write back doesn't help at all. This is illegal and should be banned, the health department and the police should get involved. the growth, harvest and selling of these goods is un-supervised by the city and they don't pay any taxes when placing their stands on the sidewalks which by the way represent a danger to the public since the sellers place them wherever they feel like placing them.

Anonymous said...

somebody out there please call 311. I'm too busy.