• Some Brooklyn homeowners are turning their backyards over to farmers in what’s being described as “urban sharecropping.” [Brooklyn Paper]
• Attention Kogi enthusiasts: Jersey City now has its very own Korean barbecue truck. [Serious Eats New York]
• Frank Bruni’s diet secret: exercise and moderation. [Men’s Health]
• The new Upper West Side Whole Foods will contain a wine store, the chain’s only one in the city. [Diner’s Journal/NYT]
• The Ciprianis have been hit with yet another lawsuit, this time from a former worker seeking overtime pay. [Cityfile]
• Susie Essman ribbed Jeffrey Chodorow at a recent Sag Harbor comedy show for bringing a “younger shiksa” as his date. It turns out, the woman is his wife. [NYP]
• More and more parents are getting fed up with ice-cream trucks, citing everything from health concerns to annoying jingles. [NYT]
• The little girl who was fined for selling lemonade was back in business yesterday, with the NYC Parks commissioner buying a few cups. [NYP]
• The 48th-floor restaurant at the Marriott Marquis is the only skyscraper-top restaurant left in Manhattan. [NYO]
• Industria Argentina chef Natalia Machado is working on a cookbook. [Fork in the Road/VV]
• In spite of the recession, Starbucks, McDonald’s, Dunkin’ Donuts, and Subway all expanded their New York City presence in the past year. [City Room/NYT]
• Hardee’s and Carl Jr. are trying to lure customers away from McDonald’s with new Angus burgers. [WSJ]
• Fort Greene’s Amin was robbed of cases of wine. [Brooklyn Paper]