De Blasio gets earful from Bronx business owners, street vendors

Bronx business leaders beseeched Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday for help against rising crime and declining quality of life, including competition from illegal street vendors — who made their own pitch to Hizzoner.

Directors of eight of the borough’s 11 Business Improvement Districts plus reps from the Bronx Chamber of Commerce met with de Blasio at Roberto Clemente Plaza in the South Bronx, according to Third Avenue BID head Michael Brady. The huddle — part of de Blasio’s weeklong tour of the Boogie Down under the “City Hall in Your Borough” initiative — came less than a week after Brady and other leaders at the area’s “Hub” district sent a letter to de Blasio and City Council Speaker Corey Johnson decrying lawlessness in the area.