{"id":285182,"date":"2021-06-27T19:34:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T16:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/dance-parties-drinking-overtake-washington-square-park\/"},"modified":"2021-06-27T19:34:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T16:34:57","slug":"dance-parties-drinking-overtake-washington-square-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dance-parties-drinking-overtake-washington-square-park\/","title":{"rendered":"#Dance parties, drinking overtake Washington Square Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Dance parties, drinking overtake Washington Square Park<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Party animals cut loose in Washington Square Park into early Sunday morning, with the crowd drinking, dancing and setting off fireworks \u2014 as the park\u2019s midnight curfew again went unenforced. <\/p>\n

Dozens of cops looked on while three separate dance parties broke out at the Greenwich Village green space late Saturday night and continuing into Sunday.<\/p>\n

The park partiers sipped on Michelob, White Claw, Heineken, as well as nutcrackers and margaritas \u2014 which were being sold for $20 \u2014 near the park\u2019s famed fountain.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a vibe and a half,\u201d said Masa Kanazawa, 22.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look around, people are doing their own thing. That\u2019s all that matters to me,\u201d he added. \u201cHere, everyone is living it up.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ten minutes before the midnight closing time, fireworks were set off in the park \u2014 prompting wild cheers from the crowd. <\/p>\n

\"People
People were spotted dancing in the fountain at Washington Square Park over the weekend.<\/figcaption>
Christopher Sadowski<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At around 12:30 a.m., about 100 revelers danced around the fountain to Armin Van Buuren\u2019s \u201cThis is What it Feels Like,\u201d while a half-hour later, a smaller group busted moves to \u201cCotton-Eyed Joe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cops on Sunday morning said no arrests were made overnight.<\/p>\n

Alex Yoshizuka, a Baruch College student, told The Post it was nice to see people partying and letting loose after the COVID-19 pandemic kept people cooped up. <\/p>\n

\"Police
Police patrolling near the rowdy crowds at Washington Square Park on June 18, 2021. <\/figcaption>
Christopher Sadowski<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s great because there\u2019s a lot of pent-up energy and emotions since the pandemic,\u201d said Yoshizuka, 21, with a mango-flavored White Claw in his hand. \u201cAnd it\u2019s nice that everyone is going off.\u201d<\/p>\n

But the Gramercy resident said he has sympathy for neighborhood residents, who have expressed frustration about loud partying, open drug use and other mayhem in the park.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel so bad for them,\u201d Yoshizuka said with a laugh. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t like this one [or] two years ago.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

But those complaints have done nothing to stop revelers from dominating the famous 10-acre park weekend after weekend \u2014 with some nights devolving into violence \u2014 as the weather has heated up. <\/p>\n

Just before 2 a.m. Sunday, a young man spray painted \u201cchose love not hate your city\u201d inside a blue heart on the ground, as hundreds of people remained inside the park.<\/p>\n

Asked if the police officers planned to enforce the midnight closing time, one cop told The Post, \u201cNot that I\u2019m aware of.\u201d<\/p>\n

The carefree night came after unsanctioned boxers again threw jabs in the park on Friday, in a scene reminiscent of the 1999 movie \u201cFight Club.\u201d <\/p>\n

Boxers began slugging it out with the park as its backdrop in early June.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe knuckleheads in the park are just gonna keep pushing the envelope until something bad happ<\/a>ens,\u201d fumed Andrew Levas, 62, on Saturday. <\/p>\n

\"Police
Police intervene at the scene where a woman was bleeding and a man was arrested near the arch in Washington Square Park in New York City around 12:30 a.m. on June 19, 2021.<\/figcaption>
Christopher Sadowski<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Earlier this month, fed-up Greenwich Village residents met at a public meeting to express their frustration about the recent rowdy park behavior, which included two people stabbed during a June 12 brawl. <\/p>\n

The following Saturday, a Taser- and knife-wielding maniac caused a stampede that left a woman injured, as the weekend pandemonium continued at the park. <\/p>\n

The city in early June implemented a 10 p.m. curfew in the park but it was lifted soon after on June 12. Chaos erupted on June 6 as NYPD officers in riot gear enforced the then-newly installed curfew. <\/p>\n

\"Community
Community members attend a meeting to air their grievances over the recent activity at Washington Square Park.<\/figcaption>
Elizabeth Rosner<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mayoral frontrunner and retired NYPD captain Eric Adams said in response that the city needed to put an end to the \u201copen disorder\u201d in parks \u2014 but that the riot gear-clad cops\u2019 curfew enforcement was \u201cheavy-handed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Additional reporting by Tina Moore<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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