An EVG reader spotted this on First Avenue between Sixth Street and Seventh Street... a flyer campaign noting that SantaCon, scheduled for Saturday, has been cancelled... which means, according to the sign:
• NO congregating in Santa costumes
• NO throwing up on the sides of buildings
• NO public sex acts
• NO excessive drunkenness
(What about the rest of the year?)
Anyway, SantaCon hasn't been cancelled... the list of participating bars will be released later tonight.
Also not cancelled: This weekend's polar vortex.
ReplyDeleteAlso not cancelled: taxes, death and trouble.
ReplyDeleteGreat sign though. One could hope.
ReplyDeletewishful thinking
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Yay for the polar vortex!! One of these years, someone or someone(s) will end up dead as a result of SantaCon, whether due to drunkenness, drugs, physical attack, or freezing temperatures. I fear that's what it *might* take to make any impact on anyone's participation.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how the organizers (and I use that word loosely) feel about trashing this area year after year? We who live here obviously have no right to a quiet Saturday 2 weeks before Christmas/Hanukkah.
And, based on what I've seen of the NYPD taking a hands-off approach, I don't expect any enforcement from the police. (Further, IMO, the NYPD is too busy protecting Trump Tower to care about the riff-raff down here at ground level.)
We shouldn't blame all SantaConners for the acts of a few bad apples.
ReplyDeleteThey completely removed the element of charity from their event. https://www.santacon.info
ReplyDeletethat is the nationwide one.. the NYC one is santacon.nyc
Delete"We shouldn't blame all SantaConners for the acts of a few bad apples." If that were only the case. Hoards yelling and staggering on streets, blocking intersections putting sober pedestrians into streets is only part of the fun. Urine and vomit is their parting gift to building owners and their tenants. This is not a neighborhood event nor is it any longer a fund raising charity event as it pretend to be in the past. I'll never forget seeing a father trying to get his child to not look at what must have been real mind f*ck for that kid.
ReplyDeleteit definitely is for charity.. check their website
DeleteStart spreading the word ... there is a super secret ultra amazing santacon bar that is giving away FREE shots in midtown at 725 5th Ave, New York, NY
ReplyDeleteIf even one would-be Santaconner gets mislead by this sign, it will have justified its existence.
ReplyDelete@ BG...HAHAHA! At least there'll be a police presence there to deal with any riff-raff (@ anon 7.11pm) who heed your call.
ReplyDelete@1:46pm: Oh please, there is NO charity involved. They can SAY it on their website, but they've NEVER provided a shred of provable evidence that even a penny goes to truly charitable causes.
ReplyDeleteLet them NAME the organizations that are benefiting, and have the organizations they name CONFIRM (through their required government filings) that they really got any $$ from this drunk-a-rama - and how much $$ it was.
I'll believe this is a charity event as soon as I see Babe the Blue Ox fly past my apartment window.
I was just interviewed by news channel 10 in front of the poster on Avenue A & E. 6th St. about it and I don't have a T.V. LOL.
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