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  • n  wheeled vehicle that can be pushed by a person; may have one or two or four wheels
    their pushcart was piled high with groceries

  • Shortly after 9 o'clock that morning a man in a white apron rolled a pushcart filled with gunny sacks up to the loading platform of a Rubel plant in the Bay Ridge district of .
  • He and his family are now scavengers, living out of a wooden pushcart.
  • As a boy on Manhattan's Lower East Side, John Dioguardi used to extort his spending money by tipping over pushcarts until harried street peddlers paid him to lay off.
News & Articles

  • A Fruit Vendor for 20 Minutes
    Metropolitan Diary: A passer-by offered to help a pushcart man who needed a break, but wondered if he would ever return.
    June 18, 2013 - New York Times
  • City Room: Metropolitan Diary: A Fruit Vendor for 20 Minutes
    Metropolitan Diary: A passer-by offered to help a pushcart man who needed a break, but wondered if he would ever return.        
    June 18, 2013 - New York Times
  • Vendors vie for food truck, push cart spots in downtown Norfolk
    NORFOLK -- Two dozen food truck and push cart owners are vying for a coveted spots to do business in downtown Norfolk. City Council last month approved allowing the portable businesses in the city right-of-way.   The lottery for the pushcart and metered spots begins at 9:00 a.m. Monday for the June 24-December 31 term.   The City will draw six numbers for trucks/trailers at designated parking ...
    June 17, 2013 - 13 News, WVEC Hampton Roads
Quotes

  • Thomas Menino in Boston Herald
    In a strongly worded letter he fired off to DCA president Anne Meyers, Menino warned, "I expect a map immediately that indicates new locations in Downtown Crossing for the pushcart businesses." "New locations must have ample foot traffic and...

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