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Sometimes there are things happening in this city that would (and could) only ever happen here, whether we like it or not. Thankfully we usually like it. The following are a few events taking place tomorrow that not only seem pretty cool, but somehow encompass why we love this city so much.
First up is 1 More Time for the 9: "A gospel revival and art attack train party". From the people who brought you the Vintage New York Train Tea Party comes a remembrance of the 9 train, which ceased to exist earlier this month. Oh how Gothamist loved the 9, it was our first. Gain some closure with us, say goodbye to the 9, and remember...when the MTA closes a subway line, they open a window. Um, or...raise fares. Celebrate anyway with train art from Foe Designs, Toyshop Collective and Peripheral Media. Live music, trivia contests with prizes, open soapbox speeching and holy rolling. After party in Battery Park. The site requests that you: "Dress to the Nines". Oh how we love puns!
This Thursday at the Chambers Street Station, uptown track, last car, Manhattan. 9pm (but it'll probably be like, 20 minutes late) and FREE. Or, we're guessing, $2!
Next up is Manhunt! DUMBO. For those who haven't experienced running for your life through the city's fair streets, you can now do so. And it's safe! Play hide and seek with a run-like-mad urban flair with the city as your playground, or at least Brooklyn's waterfront. The site really sums it up best with their description: A single hunter seeking a swarm of hunted ultimately becomes a mob of bloodthirsty hunters seeking the lone renegade. We're hoping there is some sort of screening before the game actually takes place. If not, have fun out there kids - and leave your iPod at home.
Also this Thursday at Jay Street and York Street, Brooklyn. 7pm; FREE. Of note: The group plans to join the 9 party after the game.
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The 9 was useless. I won't miss it.
Is it meeting in the car itself- or on the track next to the last car?
I'm diggin that Manhunt game - I'm all for exercise that doesn't involve running in place or indoors.
Having hated the 9 with a blinding passion ever since it was first created (I lived at 157th Street growing up), I can't tell you how elated I was to learn that it had been eliminated when I went back to New York last weekend. Best of all, almost every trace of the 9's existence has already been eliminated from the station signage... not from the subway maps, yet, but their time will come. Soon I'll be wondering if maybe it was all just a bad dream, like Newhart.
Among the stupider consequences of the 1/9 "skip-stop" "system," let me point out that when it was fully instituted, the 1 train actually made every stop from 157th Street to 200th... that's five stops in a row, people.
Goodbye and good riddance.
I'm sure your city is very nice but urban manhunt is not a New York invention. It is directly inspired by manhunt toronto and even Halifax had a manhunt before new york. By all menas love it and run with it, but it's technically not "only in new york"..