Midtown Lunch

Until now you could find the weekly schedule of what trucks would be at the World Financial Center food truck lot at N. End Ave. & Vesey online, but you had to search for it and there was no such thing for the Lent Space lot at 6th Ave. btw. Grand & Canal in Hudson Square. The NYC Food Truck Association announced on Twitter yesterday that you can now find the schedules for all of its food truck lots on its site, including the two in Lower Manhattan. Of course the schedules are always subject to change as trucks occasionally run into mechanical issues or other problems, but it’s a good tool to find out when you can get your next fix of Italian ice or fancy falafel.

The Snap Truck first hit the NYC lunch scene two weeks ago at the Lent Space lot selling hot dogs, burgers and fries with a couple of interesting items that we haven’t seen on any of the trucks that come downtown. I was most intrigued by what they were doing with their Chicago dog and whether it was close to what you’d actually get in the Windy City, and the avocado fries were also calling my name. They’ve been parking at the food truck lot on 6th Ave. between Grand & Canal every Wednesday so I took it upon myself to go there for a late lunch last week and although they were sold out of a lot of things, they were still flush with hot dogs and fried avocado.

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I probably wasn’t the only one surprised by the Twitter announcement on Tuesday of another food truck lot spawning downtown. The lot’s called the Lent Space Food Truck Court at Hudson Square, located at 70 Varick (at Grand) next to Duarte Park, and it’s another one involving the NYC Food Truck Association’s members, like the collection at the World Financial Center five days a week.

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