Friday, January 11, 2013

Chips ahoy in Tompkins Square Park this weekend

Sure, you could toss your tree in front of your building with the ornaments and stuff still on it...

[EVG reader Corina]

... or you could take it out to get drunk, then abandon it in a grocery cart on East 13th Street...

[Via THE NOTORIOUS L.I.B.E.R.A.T.I.O.N.]

... or you can drag it over to Tompkins Square Park for the annual MulchFest, holiday days of obligation in the EVG household...


The trees continue to pile up in the middle of the Park...

[Bobby Williams]


We've also spotted someone trying to mulch fake cottony snow ... or, perhaps, hide the beard evidence from SantaCon...


Yes, that fake cottony snow...


The MulchFest is 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. tomorrow and Sunday, and we'll have 38 more posts on it before the weekend is over...

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2 comments:

  1. SpikeJanuary 11, 2013 at 10:00 AM

    The way the light hits off some of the remaining tinsel on the pile o'trees in Tompkins is really beautiful. I thought there were lights still aglow at first.

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  2. shmnycJanuary 11, 2013 at 10:44 AM

    I was going to take mine there, but my wife insisted that the tree leave the apartment last week, and the Sanitation Dept.'s web site says that the city picks up trees at curbside and mulches them anyway, so...

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