Idiotarod: From Williamsburg to Queens

After much confusion and rumors that the race would be starting in Sunset Park... the 2010 Idiotarod has officially begun! The starting point is at Cooper Park in Williamsburg, where teams are awaiting the start signal and the temperature is a brisk 17 degrees! Send us any photos (or tag them "Gothamist" on Flickr) and dirty details you may have as a racer, spectator or passerby—we'll be updating as the race goes on. We're especially interested in seeing this Ghostbusters team (while throwing food is not allowed this year... we're hoping they're packing some green slime).

UPDATE: And they're off! Currently, around noon, the carts are storming through the streets of Greenpoint. This is a good time to note that there was no entry fee this year, but there will be an after party that will cost 10 bucks. No word on where that is yet.

UPDATE II: One onlooker Tweets, "stragglers coming through. A lone clown, running. God, this is terrifying. Sinister. He doesn't even have a shopping cart."

UPDATE III:: Word on the street at 1:30 p.m. is that the Idiots are at TBD on Franklin in Greenpoint and are headed north to LIC Bar in Long Island City for the end of the race.

UPDATE IV: We're hearing rumors the carts are on the move to Astoria, as of around 3:15 p.m.

UPDATE V: Now (4:15 p.m.) we hear there's an after party happening at Wunderbar in LIC.

Note: We'll be doing a recap and posting more photos tomorrow, so keep sending in your pics and racy gossip!

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By Jen Carlson in Arts and Events on January 30, 2010 3:26 PM

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cerebal ballzy

buckethead (family values cart) is awesome!

newport27

who are these people? and what in the world are they doing in my state?

NannyState

They're hedge fund managers.

addythree

Hats off to Corporation X for figuring out how to make the race fun and not a food fight. And hats off to Fakeworks for always being creative, staying in character, and capturing the spirit of the Idiotarod.

sowhtifithppnsitwll

Sheepsheadbites loves shopping carts.

Dude69

I haven't seen one non-white among these idiots. Just shows that white people with trust funds like to waste them on moronic activities, running through minority nabes with staving children. NYPD should have had their batons ready for these dweebs.

glen glenn

it's easy to get a rise out of you, isn't it?

NannyState

The pink-clad ski bunny has a nice ass. Everyone else? Crudely built.

movi

But does anyone care? Nah.

AJ

These photos kinda suck. Was it too cold for the real photographers?

babyhitler

the concept sounds kinda cool but everytime I see the pictures I realize *in a high pitched tone* SAUSAGEFEST!

eat vegans

I wish I could fill a military cargo plane with these chodes and send them to Haiti where they could use that energy for good

VoidoidRamone

Twin Peaks has a population of 51,201 and Lil is missing her blue rose. Hipster accuracy fail...

eat vegans

Hipsters and their weird fun. What's wrong with good old fashioned drinking and partying? Not good enough? No, you had to dress like a complete asshole in the 17 degree weather with bunch of other assholes with shopping carts you all took months to decorate with garbage. It reminds me of those people that pierce the tip of their dick and discover that it increases pleasure by creating more surface area of skin so they find they need to pierce and deform more and more just to get off until their junk looks like a sausage that got caught in the slicer. I'm basically saying these people are deformed dicks dressed in trash.