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New York City food trucks offer quick tacos to gourmet meals

Originally published: July 18, 2012 2:33 PM
Updated: July 19, 2012 3:46 PM
By TED LOOS  Special to Newsday

Five food trucks, including Gorilla Cheese, park outside

Photo credit: Charles Eckert | Five food trucks, including Gorilla Cheese, park outside 4 World Financial Center in Manhattan. (July 16, 2012)

In the old days, eating from a food truck in New York City was considered risky and adventurous. Now, office workers line up in midtown at lunchtime to grab a Korean taco or a lobster roll from gourmet restaurants on wheels, and moms dragging two kids are seen furiously typing on their iPhones as they try to pinpoint the location of a waffle mobile on Twitter.

Street food has officially gone...

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