Food Truck Frenzy

I was walking by the new empanada truck on the north side of Queens Blvd. and the crowd was ridiculous. It looked like they were having a Lollapalooza or something. Isn't it obvious that we need more inexpensive take-out joints in Forest Hills? I know one issue is the rents along most of Austin Street, but there are a few smaller storefronts, especially on the Ascan end of the street and a bunch of them are sitting empty.

Anyway, here's another pic I snapped of the crowd, and this was during a much less busy moment:

I was thinking that MacDonald Park should be put to some better use and become a place where the food vendors can go if the landlords on Austin aren't going to make it affordable for them all to open there. What do you all think? I think that park is vastly underused aside from some chess playing and some sitting around. Why not make it a center for all the new food trucks that are starting to come into the neighborhood?

Empanadas Come to Forest Hills

Ok, so it's a cute little empanadas truck, which happens to have suddenly perched itself across from the Key Food north of Queens Blvd. But given the fact that Forest Hills remains one of the only neighborhoods in New York City without its own empanadas storefront—despite the many empty ones available on Austin Street, I might add—I'll take what I can get.