Brooklyn Food & Drink Round-Up
“Uber-Audible Ice Cream Truck” by amanda.mccreary Ice Cream Truck Jingles: Hot or Not? “One group of concerned citizens in Brooklyn is taking action against the incessant, insipid jingles reverberating on all sides of McCarren Park. They’ve put up signs decrying the noise pollution, and formed a Yahoo Group to share and document their noise complaint…
“Uber-Audible Ice Cream Truck” by amanda.mccreary
Ice Cream Truck Jingles: Hot or Not?
“One group of concerned citizens in Brooklyn is taking action against the incessant, insipid jingles reverberating on all sides of McCarren Park. They’ve put up signs decrying the noise pollution, and formed a Yahoo Group to share and document their noise complaint calls to 311 and the local precinct,” says Gothamist. But Miss Heather of New York Shitty says, “The 94th Precinct (understaffed as it is) has better things to do than chase ice cream trucks. Get over it.” Whose side are you on?
In related news: Grub Street reports, “This past weekend, aspiring Mister Softee Nick Morgenstern unveiled the cart he plans to station outside his Fort Greene restaurant, the General Greene, all summer.”
News from reBar and Kif
Gothamist also says that Lori D’Agostino (formerly of Loulou) is now cooking at reBar (147 Front Street, Dumbo), and her menu includes “whole-roasted Idaho Brook Trout, Prince Edward Island Mussels with Coconut Curry Sauce, and molasses-brined Pork Tenderloin.” Plus, Kif (219 DeKalb Avenue, Fort Greene) has expanded their garden to seat 40, and Grub Street shares photos of the casbah-inspired space.
Recently Reviewed: Brooklyn Public House and Vutera
Time Out New York gives Brooklyn Public House (247 DeKalb Avenue, Fort Greene) a thumbs down: “Like a starlet with beauty but no talent, Fort Greene’s latest drinking addition, a refined tavern with all the requisite old-timey trappings, offers lots of flash and little substance.” Ouch. Meanwhile, Restaurant Girl gives Vutera (345 Grand Street, Williamsburg) 3 out of 5 stars, recommending the “tender, red wine-braised lamb shank with baby carrots and polenta.”
After the jump: Locally harvested Brooklyn oysters, Red Hook lobster rolls, another award for Lucali, a Bay Ridge food tour, and a bartending academy for “the young and tragically hip”…
Brooklyn Oyster Experiment
The Brooklyn Paper reports on the untimely death of hundreds of oysters “that were deposited off Sunset Park last year in hopes that they would one-day clean the filthy waters.” However, the researchers are going back to the drawing board, hoping to “prove that oysters can again thrive in New York harbor, where they once played a critical environmental — and culinary — role before over-harvesting and over-pollution reduced their dominance.”
Red Hook Lobster Rolls?
284 Van Brunt Street (Visitation Street), accepts orders at (646) 326-7650 or redhooklobster@gmail.com
We’ve already told you about the new lobster distributor, Red Hook Lobster Pound, but the New York Times shares another tidbit about the place: The owners have applied for permits to serve not only steamed lobsters, but also lobster rolls. We wonder how they’ll compare price-wise to Fairway’s cheapskate lobster roll.
Quick Bites
GQ includes Lucali in their list of “the 25 best pizzas you’ll ever eat.”… The New York Times reports on Myra Alperson’s NoshWalk through Bay Ridge… Grub Street pokes fun at the Brooklyn Bartending academy, which (according to their press release) is “the only authentic one catering specifically to the young and tragically hip on the Brooklyn scene.”
Those trucks were there long before the condos were – it’s called doing your due diligence.
And I live a block away, so yes, I can hear them.
you people in williamsburg sound miserable. 5 whole minutes they’ll sit there with their music on heatherie? why is that a problem? drowning out your mgmt? learned that one from my grandson.
Oh – and I agree, the kids definitely know how to find an ice cream truck at a park. I’m not against the ice cream trucks in general, just the noise pollution.
I agree that these trucks are a quality of life issue. It’s not directly a police issue – it’s the responsibility of the Environmental Control Board. If you have the number of the truck, you can call it into 311. There are noise laws specifically relating to these trucks – a limit on the amount of time they can sit in one place and play the jingle (15 or 30 seconds, I believe).
I’ve been in Manhattan and seen these trucks sitting silently selling ice cream on a corner. This is not the case in our neck of Brooklyn! They’ll sit at the nearby park for 5 minutes – blaring the music over and over the whole time. And sometimes you can get a competing jingle from another truck around the corner, and if you’re really lucky they may even come back through at 10 or 11 at night. They are breaking the law – and if I can get a $100 ticket for someone else throwing litter on the sidewalk outside my house, then these trucks should have to conduct their businesses in accordance with the ECB rules too.
really, miss heather is WAY out of line too in her negative comments about the group that is sick of the incessant truck jingle. and, who says it’s all condo owners? this sucks for people using the park too. and there are also renters near the park, not just condo owners.
the irony is that because of mccarren being essentially divided into multiple parks (all big, but not gigantic) — you can see the trucks parked on each street any way. Plus, there’s always a line of folks when the park is crowded.
there has to be some of the music, but non-stop music is noise pollution.
It’s nice of you to all comment when you have no idea what you’re talking about. I also suspect that you would complain that the people who live in this area are not involved in the community at all. Well now they are and you don’t like that either. Until you have listened to that jingle which can be heard for blocks night and day for days on end, you have no idea what this particular type of water torture is like. No one is complaining about the sale of ice cream here or the other park-related sounds, just this insipid jingle. I don’t know any child that can’t find an ice cream truck jingle or no. The little carts with flavored ice have no jingles at all and they seem to do a pretty good business. So I say make the ice cream trucks follow the law and turn off the music when they stop.
How can they expect to fit in those pegged jeans if there’s a constant reminder of creamy deliciousness just outside the door? The Olive Oyl legs will be history. Then they’ll HAVE to move back to suburbia.
Maybe the ice cream truck can save Brooklyn…
Yeah – those people who bought those condos on Bayard overlooking McCarren Park must NEVER get sleep. At night the stadium strength lights are shining into their apts, and during the day the ice cream trucks playing their jingles.
with that said – man up condo dwellers, you moved across the street from a park. what do you expect!
Is the ice cream any good? I suspect not. This may be a covert effort to get them replaced with Ben & Jerry’s trucks serving some flavor like “Hipster Hellnilla”