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Photo on 2nd Avenue by @prismpop]
The SantaCon organizers have released the complete schedule/slate for tomorrow's annual charity drive, which does not include anything like a bar crawl.
As previously reported, SantaCon kicks off at McCarren Park at 10 a.m. The do-gooders will then spend several hours in the Williamsburg area taking part in charitable activities ...
...before heading to the East Village and the surrounding area to perform more random acts of kindness...
However, the festivities won't be limited to these above "anchor" establishments... the official SantaCon page includes a list of other bars that will welcome Santas tomorrow. Here is that list for 2 to 8 p.m. via
the SantaCon website:
BIG LEE’S SALOON
140 1ST AVE
FINNERTY’S
221 2ND AVE
AMSTERDAM BILLARDS
110 EAST 11TH ST
THE BRAZEN FOX
106 3RD AVE
CAFECITO
185 AVENUE C
ROYALE 157
157 AVENUE C
DURDEN BAR
213 2ND AVE
BAIT & HOOK
231 2ND AVE
THE CONTINENTAL
25 3RD AVE
THE SPOTTED OWL TAVERN
211 AVENUE A
BULL MCCABES
29 SAINT MARKS PL
PROFESSOR THOM’S
219 2ND AVE
CROCODILE LOUNGE
325 E. 14TH ST
DOUBLE DOWN SALOON
14 AVENUE A
PHOENIX BAR
447 E. 13TH ST
LITTLE TOWN NYC
118A EAST 15TH ST
PINK’S BAR & GRILL
242 E. 10TH ST
DOC HOLLIDAY’S
141 AVENUE A
VILLAGE POURHOUSE
64 3RD AVE
VAZAC HORSESHOE BAR
108 AVENUE B
THE BELFRY
222 E. 14TH ST
THIRSTY SCHOLAR
155 2ND AVE
THE CENTRAL BAR
109 E. 9TH ST
COYOTE UGLY
153 1ST AVENUE
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Photo Wednesday by Steven]
Apparently SantaCon will no longer be stopping at any
Lower East Side venues.
According to Gothamist, the main organizer of SantaCon lives in the East Village.
From an interview published Tuesday with the unnamed person:
I went last year, and I would say people generally got what they wanted. I guess if it’s not your scene, the answer is just avoid it, right?
That’s a great solution. I mean, I don’t go by Madison Square Garden on game nights. I just don’t like that energy. So I know to steer clear of it. I try not to go out in the East Village on a Saturday night. I don’t like that energy. A lot of college students not sure of how to act.
But you could argue that that's sort of the same contingent that—
No but I don’t complain about it! I just don’t go out in that neighborhood during that time. I don’t frequent those venues. I don’t say that they don’t have a right to do it. I don’t like crass commercialism so I don’t go to the Rockefeller tree lighting. I don’t go to Times Square. It’s my choice what I choose to do. I don’t tell anyone they can’t do it.
In a piece on SantaCon the other day, the
Times names names
here.
Meanwhile, tomorrow, if you want to keep tabs on the action...
Fun!