Food Carts - Automatic Win Brooklyn

Although the treatment, placement and permitting of vendors continues to be a contentious issue, there is still much support for the food vendors of Brooklyn in press, blogs, design, non-profit & of course the Vendy awards. (congrats Country Boys/Martinez taco truck). I recently vacationed in Portland, OR and fell in love with their "cart worlds" - parking lots enclosed by food vendors complete with picnic tables and simple white lights, cozy little urban settings for lunch time fare or a little after bar dessert. There's something romantic about that late night carnival look. The trip left me more motivated than ever to support the vitality that cart service brings to a city.
In Baltimore cart service is few and far between (and also being hassled), a vacant reminder of the old mentality that no one wants to be on the streets of Baltimore (an notion once so strong that economic development consisted mainly of building parking garages and sky walks - an attempt to coax the County folk into visiting without stepping foot in the city). Times have changed Baltimore, people want to be outside and the streets are fine (you know, mostly.) At least Brooklyn has carts to fight for, Baltimoreans would have to travel to Towson to see that kind of action, and that is just sad sad sad. Point Brooklyn.

I wasn't sure I liked this song, but they really got me with perpetual motion machine, Oh Vimal, dream big.