Bedford Businesses Rail Against Endless Summer Taco Truck, Van Leeuwen Ice Cream
Emboldened in their unified opposition to Williamsburg Walks, a number of Bedford’s business owners are turning on the neighborhood’s food trucks. It’s dog eat dog out here!
The ever-popular Endless Summer taco truck and Van Leeuwen Ice Cream truck were both mentioned in a Brooklyn Paper article by storefront merchants looking to lay blame on falling profits.
‚”They affect business in the area in a pretty detrimental way,” said Blackbird Caf√© owner Emmanuel Cris. ‚”It’s tough enough to pay rent in this neighborhood.”
According to one restaurant manager, who declined to give her name, merchants are threatened by the carts but ‚”nobody wants to be the one to kick the taco trucks out.”
Mike, the owner of New York Muffins, added, “When you come to Bedford Avenue in the morning, the neighborhood stinks because of them. They drop all their disposals in the sewer.”
To the unhappy merchants, Ben Van Leeuwen takes the high road and throws out a zinger on a cone, telling the Paper, “Too many people worry about stamping out competition and do not spend enough time worrying about making their product good.”
Shots fired.
photo via pallid7
FUCK business. New Williamsburg is the result of hipster pioneers finding what they were looking for – big spaces with cheap rents in a beautifully ugly post apocalyptic neighborhood.
You didn’t trick them.
No one wants you’re selling.
No one wants to buy anything anymore.
Nobody is ever going to buy anything ever again.
blackbird is shitty; that’s why no one is eating there, not the taco truck.
I agree, blackbird cafe is not good. It is a nice space but other than that it is pretty unremarkable (foodwise, drinkwise, peoplewise.)
Greedy storefronts! People are entitled to want what they want! If they don’t want what you have, find a way to make it more enticing. THIS IS AMERICA!! Consumer’s have the right to buy a cone or a taco off a truck if they want to. The other taco and ice-cream options in the hood are so $%^& bad that it would be a travesty if these trucks left.
don’t see any food trucks on graham ave, these business owners should get “affiliated.”
The Taco Truck has the best food on Beford
i’m not sure how they think a taco truck and an ice cream truck are affecting the business at a cafe. they don’t sell the same foods. when i want a taco, i get a taco. i’m not gonna go to blackbird parlor just because there’s no taco truck.
maybe their businesses are hurt by the fact that the economy is bad and a business on bedford isn’t a golden ticket to a new life.
The Endless Summer taco truck is DISGUSTING. The carnitas is always dry and extra-salty from the sweat from the dudes working in there. BTW, good luck getting any type of friendly service if you don’t have breasts.
I miss Matamoros SO MUCH…