There was one vague reader report last night before midnight about some drag racing happening on First Avenue at St. Mark's Place... this is the morning-after shot...
... and there's some video, sent as a response to a Gov. Cuomo tweet warning weekend partygoers to be safe...
Crowds parked for fake staged drag racing for a planned online event at St Marks & 1st. Crowding up East Village for a spike. pic.twitter.com/qgWk4rXx4A
— Alexis Idone (@purebellanyc) July 25, 2020
The "fake staged drag racing" looks pretty authentic from the video clip.
Updated 7/26
Here's a reader photo showing the gathering — estimated up to 150 people and 25 illegally parked cars — on First Avenue and St. Mark's Place...
The reader who took the photo said: "It was truly one of the most effed-up things I've witnessed in my many years in the EV. And I've seen some crazy stuff."
According to different reader estimates, it took the NYPD nearly an hour to arrive and break up the drag racing — and this was after numerous calls to 911 and 311 and laps around the block by the participating cars.
