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World Food Truck Center

New Mobile Food Court Parks Itself at the World Financial Center

The Observer headed downtown Monday to sample some treats from the World Financial Center's new food truck court. The four-wheeled eateries showed up on Friday, and the mobile food market brings fresh, high-quality lunch fare to the community of Battery Park City.

Just be forewarned: there will be obstacles separating you from achieving that happy Buddha belly. A barrage of yuppies and tourists (a rather dangerous combination) will attempt to frustrate and delay you, so remember to stay focused, and agile. The Observer was nearly taken out by a suited-up-stockbroker.“Is he serious? That's gonna be a ridiculously impossible trade!” he yelled into his cell phone while his flailing arm came inches away from close-lining me. Read More

At the Highline

skating

Roller Models

Roller skating is no laughing matter.  Or so, at least, said Rick Casalino as he danced towards The Observer yesterday morning. "It's so important, and also increasingly difficult, to expose people to roller skating these days," said Mr. Casalino, who has skated two or three times a week since 1988.  "There are so few good Read More

FOOD FIGHT!

Palettes begone! (Midtown Lunch)

If Midtown Lunches Didn’t Suck, We Wouldn’t Need ‘Huckster’ Food Trucks

Have you ever tried to get a decent meal in the heart of midtown, that dead zone between Park and Seventh avenues? It's all warmed-over pizza, overpriced hot bars or the Four Seasons, which a guy can only eat so much of. This is why a flotilla of food trucks, offering such inventive fare as Korean tacos and gay ice cream, have been decending on the neighborhood for years now. But, no longer. Read More

FOOD FIGHT!

The Battle of the Ditch Witch: War Waged by Montauk Food Trucks

The opening salvos in this summer's Hamptons food truck wars have been fired.

Fans of the Ditch Witch--the beloved grub wagon perched at the sandy entrance to Ditch Plains Beach for 17 years--took to Facebook when word got out that the East Hampton Town Board planned to award an exclusive concession for the beach to Read More

Twitter for Your Lunch

On a dreary Friday morning, Kim Ima, the self-made baker known as the “The Treats Truck lady,” was trying to find a sweet spot for Sugar. At dawn, she had packed Sugar, her nickname for her natural-gas-fueled Treats Truck bakery, with trays of her signature Oatmeal Jammies, Pecan Butterscotch bars and egg-shaped Easter cookies; Read More


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