Tavern on the Green Food Trucks OUTRAGE Community Board

(Courtesy A Walk in the Park)

Yesterday, the new visitor center opened at the Tavern on the Green site, where the restaurant's brazenly gaudy Crystal Room once sat. The infamously tacky and mediocre tourist trap was to have been taken over by Dean Poll, who runs the Central Park Boathouse, but after negotiations with the restaurant's union went nowhere, Poll walked away, and the restaurant has been abandoned since January. In August, the city tore down the Crystal Room, and starting today the area's being used "temporarily" to sell T-shirts and edibles from upscale food trucks. And the local community board is fuming.
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