Street food field notes

When NYC's food trucks get spotted

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Time of day

Each observation is logged in a one-hour window. The curve counts how many trucks were seen in each hour, midnight to midnight.

Where they parked

Every truck with coordinates, placed on the five boroughs. Tap a dot for the details.

Pick a truck

Tap any dot to see its food, price, wait and crew.

What's on the menu

Bubble size is the number of trucks. The price is the average item price where one was recorded.

Tips from the curb

What people said when asked to recommend a truck.

Log a sighting

The same ten questions behind every row of the CSV. Saved sightings show up in the charts and map above right away.

1. What time did you see the truck?
AM
PM

Tap the map to drop a pin, or type the coordinates.

Lat
Lon
3. What kind of food does it sell?
4. Are prices displayed?
$
6. How many main menu items?
7. How many customers were waiting?
8. How many people were working?

The CSV

32 original rows