The Sound of Softee: New York complains about ice cream jingle
Many New Yorkers are still giving the cold shoulder to Mr. Softee’s familiar tune.
Roughly 1,279 complaints were filed throughout New York City between August 2017 and August 2018. The highest complaints were listed in Captain Tilly Park in Jamaica Estates, with a 200 percent increase since last year. The ice cream franchise has also left a bitter taste in the mouths of families in Brooklyn neighborhoods, such as Sunset Park and Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Localize.city, a website with vast information on all New York addresses, analyzed 311 complaints. They found that there has been a 20 percent decrease in discontent since last year. Yet this decline does not indicate that all New Yorkers are feeling sweeter toward Mister Softee.