Human snow globes, wrapped packages and the occasional Santa Jedi were also part of the festivities Saturday as the group stepped off in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood.
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More than 14,000 people signed up to participate on the SantaCon NYC Facebook page.
She said the Santas she partied with have only been a little bit naughty.
“Much more decadent than santacons of late, and less santas who actually have yuppie-like jobs in attendance”, he added, noting that the part where the Santas burst into an apartment building occurred on Avenue A, and “may have been the final straw with our landlord ( the first straw being not paying any rent)”.
Jessica Carr and Victoria Pirolli had turned themselves into snow globes, each encasing her head and torso in bubble-umbrella-like plastic, with a foam rubber base around the hips.
The day-long bar hoping event started at 10 a.m. from MCCarren Park in Williamsburg.
In the past, organizers have kept the pub crawl route secret until the night before, unsettling residents and businesses in neighborhoods anticipating a deluge of well-oiled merrymakers.
“This is my first SantaCon so I needed to see what they do at first”, stated McNamara, who works in pharmaceutical advertising.
‘I’m not anxious about the event, ‘ he said.
After several years of defending the massive bar hop, organizers started planning with police over a month ago.
For the first time, they publicly released the planned route days before their romp through Brooklyn and downtown Manhattan bars. They got a permit to assemble in a park and even agreed to tweet police messages about pedestrian safety. Moreover, they say they will do their best to keep this year’s participants from being naughty. Police Commissioner William Bratton on Friday warned “anybody who wants to come into the city and raise hell dressed up as Santa Claus – we’re not going to tolerate it”, while NYPD Chief James O’Neill suggested the event was a burden at a time of heightened security concerns after attacks by extremists in Paris and elsewhere. Tracing its origins to a prankish, anti-consumerist gathering in San Francisco in 1994, SantaCon has mushroomed into events in hundreds of cities.
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Last yr’s SantaCon in New York City coincided with road demonstrations towards police violence sparked by killings of unarmed black males, complicating safety issues.
