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Incase the news managed to escape you, Jon Bon Jovi came, sang and conquered Central Park over the weekend. Of the over 60K tickets given away to fans, around 50K showed up to the Great Lawn...leaving a reported 150K plastic bottles and aluminum cans. The AP reports, "Major League Baseball, which sponsored the event, said that more than 100 volunteers worked into the next day collecting the recyclables," an effort made in collaboration with the Natural Resources Defense Council -- there's no word yet on how the 13 acres of Kentucky bluegrass fared during the show. And if you weren't rocking, rolling and littering in the crowd on Saturday, some of the show has landed on YouTube.
Bon Jovi: The Aftermath
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Ya shoulda seen the plastic cups at MacCarren Park pool yesterday.
They did the encore for the Breeders.
I ran in the New York Road Runners Park to Park race Sunday morning at 8am. Apparently, the NYRR volunteers had been there since 3am cleaning up the mess from the Bon Jovi concert. Such a disgrace... why couldn't MLB pay for people to clean up its mess? Why is a non-profit organization with absolutely no relationship to the concert stuck?
Shocking that the trash from Jersey would leave their trash in the park.
Hey Bloomie, next time you tell us how precious the grass is when we ask for a permit to gather and protest, we might just bring up this pitiful show. Go F yourself!!!!
It does seem wrong that the city allows for a concert ever blue moon in Central Park and we end up with a band whose core audience is from New Jersey. Why not a group that actually has a following in NYC? Maybe you'd get fans who have more of a stake in keeping their backyard clean too.
Please. I've got no love for Bongiovi, but if you honestly think a crowd of NYCers would have left the park any cleaner I have a bridge to sell you.
ah. The argument of NY is better than NJ. Just look at the story Gothamist posted about how dirty the subway is getting.
dr zippy:
I went to the Philharmonic in the park a couple weeks back (crowd was around 60k I think) and the Great Lawn looked pretty close to spotless afterward.
#7: HAH, did you just compare the Philharmonic audience to the Jon Bon Jovi audience. That's rich.
I was there (and not Jersey trash, thank you very much) and saw people tracking down the trash collectors to properly dispose of their bottles. The problem was that weren't any trash receptacles on the Great Lawn - unless you saw someone with a bag, you were SOL.
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So let me just make sure I've got it straight.. everyone who saw the Philharmonic was from NYC, and everyone who saw Bon Jovi was from NJ. Ok.. got it.
I hear Jersey people have also been kidnapping babies across Manhattan and sucking out all their blood. PLEASE. Yeah I have NEVER in my life seen someone who actually lives in NY litter.
I admit I am not a NYC history expert but didn't the massive destruction of NJ neighborhoods to construct the Turnpike and Port Elizabeth, simultaneously turn much of Central Jersey into an industrial wasteland while allowing (despite detrimental short run effects) the lower Manhattan and Brooklyn neighborhoods that everyone on here loves so much, to become what they are today?
It seems to me if it weren't for the bulldozing of half of New Jersey, the lower half of Manhattan and a good portion of Brooklyn might be sprawling shipping yard and container storage area by now. Not only that but I read that an estimated 30 percent of North Jersey land is devoted to transit of goods, services and people into and out of NY.
I'm just saying that even if the crowd was ENTIRELY Jersey natives and they did leave a bit of concert trash in Manhattan, I think Manhattan is probably still ahead by a few million tons of industrial waste and pollution.
Not only that but I read that an estimated 30 percent of North Jersey land is devoted to transit of goods, services and people into and out of NY.
That's pretty much the story of NJ -- any prominence it has is almost entirely because of its proximity to New York. Or, on the south end, Philadelphia.
"Incase"? Is that a new word? At least in Jersey, we have a dictionary.
Ah the classic "Oh yeah? Well YOU don't use proper grammar and spelling!" defense. Truly the most formidable weapon in a debater's arsenal.