“ The early summer has brought at least a dozen new trucks, many of them run by people with advanced degrees and white-collar backgrounds: CupcakeStop is owned by a 2009 New York University Law School graduate. Cravings, a Taiwanese food truck, is the brainchild of Thomas Yang, who developed the truck’s business model before graduating from Baruch College in 2008. The owners of Street Sweets both left six-figure jobs to build their business, and the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck is driven by Doug Quint, a doctoral candidate in bassoon performance at CUNY. “The whole Brooklyn Philharmonic season was canceled,” he said. “I have to get through the summer somehow.
