New job for hot dog vendor booted by Metropolitan Museum of Art PDF Print E-mail
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Monday, 10 August 2009 22:53

New job for hot dog vendor booted by Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

 

The booted Metropolitan Museum of Art hot dog vendor's indigestion was fading Saturday after a fellow dog dealer offered him a job.

Pasang Sherpa, 51, of Long Island City, lost his prime spot outside the Met on Friday when he failed to pay his $53,558 monthly rent at the city's most lucrative vending spot.

But another museum row hot dog vendor, Dan Rossi, said Sherpa can sell dogs at one of his carts.

"He's gonna work for me now," said Rossi. "Nobody's gonna touch him now without talking to me."

"The guy was crying. They pushed him out," Rossi said.

"Yeah, I'll work for him now," Sherpa said yesterday. "It's better than nothing."

"Last night I couldn't sleep," he said. "I've got kids who have to go to college. I don't know what I'm going to do."

Sherpa agreed late last year to pay almost $643,000 annually for the right to sell food and drinks from carts on either side of the Met's entrance. He fell $310,000 behind on rent and the city has seized $170,000 in Sherpa's assets.

Sherpa and Rossi say the city needs to do a better job keeping so called "black market" hot dog vendors away from the Met.

"As soon as they pulled Sherpa's cart out yesterday, all these guys just pulled in. The city has to enforce the law," said Rossi.

These unlicensed dealers offer dogs and drinks for less money than the legit businessmen, whose prices are set by the Parks Department.

"I sell water for $2 and the others sell it for $1," he said. "If I charged $10 a hot dog maybe I could compete."
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