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Ice Cream Trucks in Dumbo

June 12th, 2008

Summer is here and it’s hot. This past weekend hit record temperatures and what’s better than ice cream to cool us down? Seen for the first time in Dumbo were at least 5 different ice cream/slush trucks (not pictured is a flavored ice cart on Washington and York Street). So what you say? Not if you consider that they were stationed within a six block radius at once. And that doesn’t include Almondine’s sorbets, Jacques Torres ice cream sandwiches, and the delis with ice cream in the neighborhood. The trucks are no doubt a result of part weather, part business opportunity with the many tourists in the neighborhood, and part gentrification of a neighborhood. (I realize the Cadman Plaza truck is in Brooklyn Heights, but it’s still within two blocks of the one stationed on Washington and York Street).

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{Flickr photo set}
{Treats Truck at Pearl St. Triangle, 19Jul2007}

Filed in Dumbo Food at 12:15 pm
Comments
  • The fumes can be pretty noxious. I don't mind the noise and even the it-will-drive-one-insane jingle (best when two trucks play the same jingle, but out of phase). There was a truck parked on Washington at the Bridge walkway exit and the fumes were just sort of gathering under the overpass, gagging anyone who’d walk by.
  • Brittany
    Bring back the treat truck instead!
  • Luke C
    I agree with epc, the fumes under the bridge are noxious. I wonder whether Marty Markowitz would really want the first thing that tourists smell when they arrive under his new Welcome to Brooklyn signs to be the diesel exhaust of an ice cream truck. The drive ought to be required to park anywhere but directly under the overpass where the fumes collect.
  • fratello
    Or maybe face the other direction, so the exhaust pipe goes into the street, and not into the walkway and stairwell.
  • C
    The cops should be out there issuing idling fines!
  • jessmiss
    People need to lighten up - it's Summertime - For godsakes, don't you have anything better to do with your time and energy than to worry about how many freakin' ice cream trucks are in an area? Get a life!
  • mike
    Agree with Jessmiss. Ive never seen such a group of picayune whiners than the folks in dumbo – if its not that there are too many ice cream trucks in the neighborhood, then people would be bitchin’ that there aren’t enough ice cream trucks in the neighborhood. You folks need to spend your time counting your blessing that you don’t have real problems, ‘cuz if you did, you wouldn’t give a @%&# about how many *&@*#$% ice cream trucks are in the area IN THE SUMMER!
  • mike d
    I agree with mike, and I don't even know what picayune means.
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