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(Photo Credit: MartaBorbala on Flickr)If you think New York isn't edgy any more and that Mayor Bloomberg has turned this town into a giant suburb, try to catch the Idiotarod this coming week-end. Your faith in Gotham will be restored. There sure are a lot of creative and wacky people taking place in this shopping car race. You have to experience this event live. It is the most fun you will have all winter long. I promise.
This year, there will be four starting points to make it even more fun than in the past. Check the web site for more info.
From the Idiotarod Web site:
The Iditarod is the famous long-distance race in which yelping dogs tow a sled across Alaska. The IDIOTAROD is pretty much the same thing, except that instead of dogs, it's people, instead of sleds, it's shopping carts, and instead of Alaska it's New York City.We are turning the crazy to 11 this year and having multiple starting points.
- Long Island City: Water Taxi
- DUMBO: Water Taxi
- Williamsburg: Water Taxi
- Greenpoint: India St.
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3 comments:
thanks katia,
but faith restored maybe not so much.
i returned home to red hook this afternoon to find it littered with shopping carts everywhere, along all the major streets. i had hoped the edgy, anti-suburban, hipsters i saw walking away from the trashed carts in their red coveralls would have been more savvy than to leave all their (recyclable) trash behind.
shame on the idiotarod for not making cleanup a mandated part of registration.
maybe next year.
apple
Hi Apple, I totally agree with you. I think that Columbia Street is going to be littered with those carts.
Not cool, indeed.
As I mentioned, there was one at the corner of our street, which of course is now in front of my house thanks to Mr. Teen Son.
But, yeah, Idiotarod Folks, CLEAN UP AFTER YOURSELVES.....
Trash up and down Hicks & Columbia Streets. Loooosahs! Looks like a fun race, but clean up after yourselves.
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