The Brooklyn Paper reported that the “beloved Latino food stalls of Red Hook Park will return to their traditional haunt this weekend — and the grand re-opening couldn’t come a moment too soon for vendors, who have racked up tens of thousands of dollars in debt to comply with tightened city regulations.”

After months of retrofitting the carts and upgrading some vendors have big expenses, some as high as $35,00-$50,000, leaving the entrepreneur in debt. Following last year battle with the Health Department, vendors won the permits back allowing them to sell in the Red Hook Park. It seems like a up hill battle with endless fees and restrictions, “The losses are major,” said Marcos Lainez, who runs a Salvadoran papusa cart. “It’s going to take at least two and a half years to recover all the money we have lost.”