Mousa the Ice Cream Man Celebrates 20 Years

For the past decade, a Lickety Split ice cream truck has been a familiar site at the athletic fields located behind New Milford's Borough Hall.

And the man known to his many patrons simply as "Mousa" happily serves up ice cream and other refreshing goodies from his truck mainly on weekends during the summer months.

"Mahmoud Mousa is celebrating 20 years in business this year," said NMPD Sgt. Thomas Johnson, who is in charge of licensing mobile ice cream vendors in the borough. "He has been a fixture at all New Milford public events as well as traveling the streets townwide."

In addition to being a borough landmark, Mousa also makes the rounds to schools and parks in Bergenfield, Englewood and Teaneck where he recently served ice cream to students and teachers at Teaneck Community High School.

“I love doing this,” Mousa said. “In the winter I get to take a long break, travel and have fun with my family.”

Members of his family also assist in his ice cream business.

“I have my brother and a cousin who both drive Lickety Spit ice cream trucks in Paterson and in Bergen County,” he said.

Mousa said he has been in the ice cream business for 20 years and has been coming to New Milford for ten of those years.

And for the past five years, Mousa has made a special trip to the Teaneck Community School to celebrate the last week of school.

For the first day of summer, a blue canopy was set up next to his truck so that students and teachers were able to order their refreshments without worry of sun or rain.

Mousa offers a variety of ice cream, cones, cups, ice cream sandwiches, milkshakes, waffle cones, waffle sundaes, Italian Ices, as well as water, soda and candy.

Before driving his ice cream truck, Mousa owned and operated an ice cream store in New York City but sold the business because “CVS Pharmacy bought my lease.”

“It was a great deal,” he said.