El Olomega, the family-run Salvadoran pupusa truck that was the last vendor standing at the Red Hook Ball Fields, has shut down for the 2026 season, ending more than half a century of Latin street food at the corner of Bay and Clinton Streets. Hell Gate first reported the closure.

The reason came down to a bill the truck could no longer split with anyone: nearly $14,000 in Parks Department concession permit fees. For decades that cost was divided among a lineup of vendors who packed the ballfields every summer. As one truck and cart after another pulled out over the past decade, the fee stayed the same, and the last vendor left standing had to cover the whole thing alone.

El Olomega, run by Marcos Lainez and his family, decided it could not. “It’s not profitable anymore. It’s really hard to do business,” Lainez told Hell Gate. “They make it so difficult on us.”