Ah, yes, it seems you’re right. It’s not cut-and-dry, since some of New York’s rules only apply to cities bigger than a million people, but at least with the pure-electric scooters that are being used for food delivery these days in NYC, they do seem to be unlicensed and unlicensable and therefore not allowed on NYC streets.
I still take issue with you characterizing “delivery guys” as “Chinese” though - something tells me that you are lumping a large swath of ethnicities in to one. And maybe even stereotyping on gender too. I can tell you that personally in the last month I’ve had Chinese, Indian, Mexican, Korean, Turkish, and Japanese food delivered by electric scooter, and not once was the delivery person the same ethnicity as the food being delivered.
