Bookmarked a $2 hot dog stand in Brooklyn that turned out to be a guy's front porch

Back in 2017, I stumbled on this link for 'Tony's Famous Franks' and bookmarked it thinking I'd visit. Showed up at the address in Brooklyn near 5th Avenue and it was just a guy named Tony selling hot dogs from his stoop. He told me he'd been doing it for 12 years without a permit and didn't care. I kept the bookmark because it feels like a weird little time capsule now.

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campbell.nora10d ago

Oh man, that's incredible. Tbh, I love how weird and scrappy stuff like that is. Ngl, it reminds me of this taco stand I found in Bushwick a few years back, it was just a guy named Carlos selling tacos out of a cooler on a milk crate. He'd set up outside this bodega on my street around midnight and the line would be like 20 people deep. Cops shut him down twice a week but he'd just move two blocks over and keep going. Honestly, the best al pastor I've ever had, and I'll never find it again because he just vanished one day. It's like a ghost story but for your taste buds.

grayt4610d ago

I knew a guy in high school who ran a hot dog stand out of his hatchback in the parking lot of a Kmart near my house in Jersey. He called it "The Wiener Mobile" and had this whole little setup with a generator and a fold-out table. Sold dogs for a dollar fifty and they were actually pretty good, but the cops ran him off like four times before he finally gave up. Last I heard he opened a legit food truck in Florida, which is wild because I don't think he even liked hot dogs that much.