Gothamist: Elephant Walk 2006 is Tonight

marbear

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:14:33 -0500

Does anyone know the date? Anyone? Bueller, Bueller...

Buffy

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:51:51 -0500

has anyone had any luck finding out when the march is this year?

marbear

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:53:38 -0500

Does anyone know when this is happening this year?? My friends from Chicago are trying to fly in for this so I need the date.

Jessica Zuniga

Sun, 21 Jan 2007 00:05:16 -0500

When is the march of the elephants going to be this year, cause I really, really don't want to miss it!

anon

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:03:30 -0500

loxondonta, that case was of a few of their social workers not taking care of their animals. peta does amazing things for animals world-wide. however, you don't need to be a peta supporter to support animals...

a

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:28:31 -0500

does anyone know what time they arrived through the tunnel on the manhattan side?

meat eater

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:59:49 -0500

The beauty of watching from the Queens side was the lack of PETA assholes.

DrunkAtNYU

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 02:57:23 -0500

i saw them at 34th and 3rd ave, a bit later than i wanted as I wasn't feeling too well, but it was interesting to say the least. Unfortunatley they came and went in about 45 seconds

surfer

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 01:27:03 -0500

Just got back. Saw them on w34 st. I think they were a little late this year.

Adam

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 01:04:09 -0500

I just got back from watching the elephant walk on the Queens side. We waited about an hour and a half, and they finally appeared at 12:30. About 6 elephants, two zebras (with coats on) and about 7 or 8 horses. Although it was freezing and a long wait, I love watching this every year. It's the elephants' chance to show off to the City. And we should all be out there welcoming them. They deserve it. I watched it from the corner of 50th Ave. and 21st St. in Queens, a desolate corner near the entrance to the Midtown Tunnel. We were able to get within 5 feet of the animals!!! They came off the trains in the Sunnyside Rail Yards, went along Borden Ave. to the entrance ramp to the Midtown Tunnel, swung around the corner I was standing on, and proceeded into the tunnel. If anyone has pics, please post!

Peter

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:59:39 -0500

looks pretty darn humiliating to me. i mean, i am humiliated that adults still actually want to watch that stuff. we're supposed to be more enlightened these days. it's about time that Ringling went the way of the dodos. get your fill from cirque. even if they didn't beat and torture those poor elephants - even if - i'd still be opposed to using them like that. blah, man. blah.

Loxodonta Africana

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:40:40 -0500

Anon, it's also well documented that PETA mistreasts animals and humans. I'll be there for sure!

DrunkAtNYU

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:16:26 -0500

i'm totally going to be there since i ave a friends apartment in murray hill that i crash at all the time anyways. Does anyone know at what avenue they go to down to 34th to continue their walk after exiting at 36th and 2nd. I don't want to be that guy standing at 34th and 2nd until 3am waiting for elephants that will never come.

tyler

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:27:53 -0500

burden, my friend, it's 36th & 2nd in MANHATTAN. i'm waking my lady up and dragging her to get sushi or coffee (hopefully not both..) and take a few pictures. hope to see you guys there. have fun, stay warm, and be nice to the elephants.

burden

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:15:56 -0500

36th street and 2nd Ave. in Queens? Where the hell is that? In the water north of LaGuardia?

anon

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:56:59 -0500

please do not attend this event to support ringling bros.! they treat their animals terribly (especially their elephants!) & their abuses are well documented. check out circuses.org for more information!

jrm

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:30:38 -0500

hey mrf: i'm not for sure of course but i figure they'll be getting off the trains in the railyard to the southwest of the queens side tunnel entrance, then proceeding briefly through that hunters point/vernon-jackson industrial area to the tunnel entrance. if correct, the pedestrian path of the pulaski bridge btwn greenpoint and long island city should provide a good view of all of it. but as that's just a guess, and considering the fact that you get closer to the enslaved beasts from the sidewalks of 34th street than from the pulaski, i'm figuring it's probably a better experience on the manhattan side.

Rocknrope

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:07:51 -0500

When are the Martians going to come and make us walk through tunnels while clutching each other's goodies?

matt

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:05:58 -0500

seriously though, why hasnt this exciting "marketing" walk been prohibited? are the kids who give a shit up at this hour? these animals are native to india and africa, yeah, lets march them through new york city concrete corridors in the middle of the freezing night...

Kojak

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:51:23 -0500

If you think that’s fun diabolix, just wait till you watch the fun elephants shit and fart up a storm, leaving behind a disaster in their wake. I'm so there.

diabolix

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:40:03 -0500

Oh boy, vicious animal abuse and tunnels smelling like elephant-sounds like my idea of fun.

Toby

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:39:41 -0500

The whole explotation of animals like this is wrong. If they were exploiting pandas my guess is that Gothamist would be up in arms.

mrf

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:50:53 -0500

Does anyone know what route they use in Queens to get from the train (?) to the tunnel entrance?

ethos

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:46:04 -0500

^How weird is that... I just rented that movie last nite. Being that I'm pretty much against people using elephants in the circus myself, that scene actually put a bit of a damper on the movie for me. But now that you mention it was just a coincidence...

Jen

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:43:35 -0500

I went last year, but it was pretty anticlimactic, I gotta say. We waited in the freezing cold for an hour (they didn't come til around 1ish), then they walked by in about 45 seconds. It sounds so fun in theory...

Robert

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:17:49 -0500

In the movie, "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," there's a dream sequence where Joel and Clementine are watching this very event. I read somewhere that this scene was completely unplanned. Someone on the production crew heard about it earlier in the day and within a few hours, cast and crew were at 34th Street filming it.

hr

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:04:55 -0500

back in the ol' fraternity days, we had a different definition of elephant walk.

S.D.

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:02:59 -0500

Ah, The Elephant Manifesto of Liberty...

Kojak

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:58:29 -0500

I hope one day my Elephant friends will throw off the shackles of their oppressors and stomp on their abusive asses.

S.D.

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:56:03 -0500

Jen, I'm Shocked, Shocked I say! You make no mention of the PETA Protests... ;-)