Hot Dog Cart Cost $289,500

In 2013, a hot dog cart just outside the Central Park Zoo carried a $289,500 annual concession fee for the right to operate at Fifth Avenue and East 62nd Street. A man named Mohammad Mastafa paid NYC Parks for the location, which attracted the highest bid among 150 park pushcart sites across the city. Four other Central Park vendors paid more than $200,000 a year, while the city's park pushcart concessions generated about $4.5 million annually.

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