They must have read my mind. I’d been wishing that Dessert Truck, my favorite mobile dessert concept, would pull up the stakes and cruise on over to the East Side. Just last week the Dessert Truck sent out an alert to their Facebook fans saying that because there’s reduced foot traffic on University Place since NYU closed for summer, they’ll now be parked on Third Avenue and St. Mark’s Place.

Yessss. Now not only is the truck convenient to me, and the subway (and who doesn’t have to ride the 6 train at some point), but it’s joining a little snack-peddling caravan in Astor Place, including the Mud Truck, Mr. Softee, and the Wafels & Dinges truck – which is usually up on 14th street but two recent sightings near the Cube point to a possible new locale Update: The waffle truck parked at Astor Place is not Wafels & Dinges. It is a knockoff Wafels & Dinges.

The downside–Astor Place sucks to hang out in, unless you’re skateboarding, playing a saxophone, or selling glass bubblers (nymag.com’s has an article about the total mish-mash that the public space around Cooper Union has become). Your best bet if you’d like to sit and snack might be to find a quiet stoop on 9th or 10th street, or meander up Stuyvensant Street to St. Mark’s Church.

Original Snackish post about Dessert Truck

Dessert Truck, Third Avenue and St. Mark’s Place, 6pm-12am, every day (except when it rains, usually)