"...Mohammad Mastafa of Astoria, Queens, ...pays the city’s parks department $289,500 a year just for the right to operate his single cart there.
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the operators of four other carts in and around Central Park also pay the city more than $200,000 a year each. In fact, the 20 highest license fees, each exceeding $100,000, are all for Central Park carts.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/05/nyreg … .html?_r=0

That's why they say," If you can make it in NYC, you can make it anywhere."