In 1810, a woman grew and sold her vegetables in what’s now known as Lafayette Square. She used the funds to purchase her own freedom for $275.

While the bill still needs to pass a second council vote before it can move on to the Mayor’s desk, it’s now closer to becoming law than in previous iterations.

Chef Ziggy’s puesto along 14th Street NW became a gathering point for family and friends to reflect and remember their son, brother, father, and friend.

Thanks to $9,000 in community donations, he’ll soon be back to dishing out rice and pork.

If passed, the first sidewalk vending zone would be established in Columbia Heights.

“If it were up to me, I wouldn’t go out. It’s a risk. But what else am I going to do?”

Colochita has been vending food in Columbia Heights and Mount Pleasant for 26 years.

A 15-year-old girl who had a police confrontation for street vending in D.C. met up with the NYC churro vendor who was handcuffed in a subway station on viral video last month.

Photo by philliefan99 Morning, Washington. The Washington Post checks in on the dire case of D.C. street food, which, improved though it may be, is still far from what it ought to be in a city of this size. What explains the lag in D.C. street food? The story begins with the case of one Shemondy Haile, a hot-dog vendor who experimented with selling Eritrean food from his cart before the city struck him down….