The Red Hook Park Vendors, which I’ve enjoyed before, have been granted a six-year reprieve from being overtaken by generic highest-bidder food concessionaires, reports Eater today. Hooray!
It appears there will be changes, though, as per the euphemistically worded sentence attributed to the executive director of the Food Vendors Committee of Red Hook Park in the press release:
We have the best intentions to create an even better food market with the assistance of New York City Parks and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
In other words, maybe we, the Food Vendors Committee of Red Hook Park, will no longer knead pupusa dough barehanded and serve slaw directly from open Coleman coolers. Eh, whatever. I don’t know about your body but mine is a versatile machine that can handle all manner of “improperly” prepared foods. It’s all part of the charm and can’t possibly be less healthy than the bathwater hotdogs and horsemeat kabobs you can purchase daringly from any city-sanctioned push-cart vendor here.