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Soft-serve defiance: Ice cream trucks ply Brooklyn streets

by Associated Press
| April 18, 2020 12:03 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — Usually a welcome harbinger of spring and summer, Mister Softee's signature jingle has made a startling juxtaposition to the piercing wails of ambulances on Brooklyn's otherwise quiet streets.

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