Financial District

Anali reports Federal Street is getting a Crumbs Bake Shop, which apparently is all the rage in the big cities that have them.

Adam Gendreau, co-owner and co-operator of the Staff Meal food truck, has penned an open letter to city officials about Boston's nascent food-truck efforts:

Despite the media portrayal that the food truck industry in Boston is thriving, the reality is that the city hasn’t implemented a system that will allow food trucks to succeed.

The problem, as I see it, is a cultural one. There has never been a street food culture in this city; we’re building one from the ground up. With that in mind, there’s a reasonable expectation that the city would shine a spotlight on this burgeoning industry in order to aid the cultural adoption on the part of both vendors and customers. The model of deciding where food trucks would be successful isn’t currently working well.

Gendreau praises city efforts, but says food-truck operators and the city should be focusing on certain heavily trafficked areas first before spreading out across the city - such as the Back Bay and the Financial District:

At the very least the city should allow multiple trucks to cluster in Back Bay. This would easily help all of us fill our schedules with spots that are known to be prosperous. It also provides multiple food options, which most people would see as being a good thing. Clustering would be a simple solution to help the food truck industry expand.

Greg MacKay spotted this disgruntled stick figure on the side of a building on the Greenway near Dewey Square.

Copyright Greg MacKay. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

A concerned member of the 99% reports from Oliver Street in the Financial District, where a limo has had its engine running for more than the five minutes allowed by state law:

Idling vehicle in front of Goldman Sachs. Please enforce law by adding an option to citzens connect. The 1% violation?