Twelfth annual NYC Idiotarod races through Brooklyn
While thousands of politically aware millennials filled the streets of Lower Manhattan in support of their candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, a slightly different demographic with priorities focused more toward hyperbole, irony and happy hour listened to Head Judge Anney Fresh proclaim: “This is a race to find the most Idiotarod who will rule the world!”
Thus began the 12th annual NYC Idiotarod race as costumed teams pushed heavily customized shopping carts from the hipster-strewn Lower East Side, across the Manhattan Bridge to Brooklyn on Saturday.
“Brooklyn is mellower,” explained Idiot Labs judge Oriana, during a pause at the first checkpoint, the Brownstone Bar & Restaurant on Gold Street. “We have fewer problems here.” Perhaps, she opined, because people are more easy going and accepting of such an idiotic quest.