Hundreds of merrymakers dressed like Santa Claus and his elves assembled in a Brooklyn park on Saturday morning to start the annual pub crawl referred to as SantaCon, a Yuletide ceremony with a fame for uplifting unsafe conduct among the many revelers.
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“We are trying to transit from what SantaCon was to something more positive for this year and in the future”, said Norman Siegel, a civil rights lawyer who is working with the organizers.
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After several years of defending the costumed bar hop against a bad-Santa rap, organizers are making new efforts to convey that the SantaCon coming to town in NY on Saturday is reveling more responsibly.
In the previous, organizers have stored the pub crawl route secret till the night time earlier than, unsettling residents and companies in neighborhoods anticipating a deluge of properly-oiled merrymakers.
Still, some officials are seeing red.
MTA police officers at Grand Central Terminal and Penn Station in New York City and train stations on the route will be enforcing the liquor restriction, according to a news release.
The agency and SantaCon said they already planned to do what was asked.
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.
Tracing its origins to a prankish, anti-consumerist gathering in San Francisco in 1994, SantaCon has mushroomed into events in hundreds of cities.
Enthusiasts paint SantaCon as a creative take on holiday traditions of festive dress, good cheer and charity. In New York some community groups have established a “Santa Free” zone that urges bars not to serve alcoholic beverages to people participating in order to dissuade incidents of public vomiting and urination in the streets. Organisers say there were no arrests or summonses a year ago. In 2012 and 2013, some Santas got into some street fights and got arrested while other 85 received summonses for misbehavior.
This year, SantaCon is roving a city that has been on alert since the attacks by extremists in Paris on cafes and other social venues.
To four-time SantaCon-goer Michael Fincher, troubled times were an argument for the celebration, not against it.
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