Downtown Riverside Pub Crawl!

[Steve]

Great job to Stephen & Co for pulling this off.
It is very hard work to organize and plan something like this. Very nice crowd & the turn out exceeded expectations. Oh and the Trolley was a big success (listening Mike Miller/JTA?).
Now that's what I'm talkin' 'bout!

Mark, I have to echo Stephen's comments - That was the first time I've been to Dive Bar since the live music change. I really like it, because Downtown really doesn't have a place like this.  Agreed about the staff too - bartenders were really quick and made a great drink!  Thanks for participating with the crawl!

[SarahTay]

Awesome awesome awesome. I know my boys who are beaches guys through and through were very impressed.

I am recovering but I'll be ready for round two pretty soon. Probably will take advantage of the Hyatt deal if it's available next time too.

Thanks to all the folks who put this together!

Some of the better parts of the night was having people from all over the city - intracoastal, arlington, southside, beaches, etc...  and they were all having a great time in these awesome venues that they have never tried.  I think it was completely eyeopening for quite a few that there's a lot more to do than go to the towncenter and have some pops at the cheescake factory. 

I had a great time, personally, and look forward to the next one. 

whats a cheesecake factory?

"The" Cheesecake Factory ... a very popular chain restaurant:
http://www.thecheesecakefactory.com/

[urbanlibertarian]

Good thing we didn't try to do our pub crawl in Manhattan.

From DNAinfo.com:

http://www.dnainfo.com/20110624/murray-hill-gramercy/ban-on-pub-crawls-brewing-on-east-side

Ban on Pub Crawls Brewing on the East Side
June 24, 2011 10:08am
A Community Board 6 committee drafted a resolution asking agencies and elected officials to crack down on pub crawls.

Read more: http://www.dnainfo.com/20110624/murray-hill-gramercy/ban-on-pub-crawls-brewing-on-east-side#ixzz1QV2jlpYE
By Amy Zimmer

DNAinfo News Editor

GRAMERCY â€" Is the city's first pub crawl ban on tap?

That's the hope of some residents in the bar-laden east side area of Community Board 6, which stretches from 14th to 59th streets.

Members of CB 6's Business Affairs and Street Life Committee discussed a draft resolution Thursday night that would call on various state and city agencies and officials to help them crack down on organized bar-hopping.

"We personally as Community Board 6 can't ban them," committee vice chair Stephen Dubnoff said. "We are asking the city and everyone else to help us stop them. More than that we cannot do."

It was the fourth meeting over several months addressing the issue, which was sparked by the rowdiness that ensued around St. Patrick's Day when Groupon offered an online coupon promoting a three-day pub crawl billed as a chance to drink "copious amounts of beer" and to hang out with "fellow rowdy hooligans."

The sanctioned binge drinking outraged many of the committee's members, who said their streets turned into a giant public sewer for vomit and loud potty-mouthed drunkards, who residents say are overwhelmingly young.

"That's what they want you to do: drink yourself silly and join your fellow hooligans," Dubnoff said.

As the Murray Hill area has become a hotspot for the college and post-collegiate set in recent years, the bars scene has exploded.

The state's Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services, which says that alcohol is the most popular substance used by New York college students, found that 49 percent of students aged 18 to 25 surveyed reported binge drinking in the previous two weeks, 54 percent of whom were male and 45 percent female.

"It is clearly not in the public interest to have large groups who have abused alcohol roaming the streets," Dubnoff read from the draft resolution.

Robert Bookman of the New York Nightlife Association â€" which opposes such a ban â€" said there are already laws on the books that address such problems and others, like underage drinking.

"There are plenty of current laws that if properly enforced there's no issue with pub crawls," he said.

He doesn't see how anyone can stop young people drinking from bar to bar in the course of a night, whether its self organized or through a group.

"The marketplace is the marketplace," he said, adding that liquor regulations would be out of City Council's hands and would have to be a state issue.

"They can call that the anti-St. Patrick's drinking law," he joked.

The CB 6 committee has taken action in other ways.

When bars apply for new or renewal liquor licenses, they are asked to sign a document that includes a clause not to participate in pub crawls (among other stipulations, such as closing at 2 a.m. instead of the legally sanctioned 4 a.m.)

The committee said its efforts to stem pub crawls already had letters of support from community groups â€" including the Sutton Area Community, the Turtle Bay Association and Gramercy Neighborhood Associates. They plan to garner more backers before they finalize the language of the resolution and present it to the full board, which doesn't meet again until September.

"It is an interesting concept. We look forward to working on it over the net few months," CB 6 Chair Mark Thompson said. "Other community boards may follow our lead."

No one from the neighborhood â€" either for or against such a ban â€" came to Thursday's meeting to speak out about the proposal, though a few residents came to voice complaints against specific establishments.

Because of the rash of bars in the area, committee members discussed having a forum in October where residents can address problem venues.

Read more: http://www.dnainfo.com/20110624/murray-hill-gramercy/ban-on-pub-crawls-brewing-on-east-side#ixzz1QV1y1Zp3

[Dapperdan]

And our Murray Hill is much different than the one mentioned here.

[ProjectMaximus]

Awesome awesome awesome. I know my boys who are beaches guys through and through were very impressed.

I am recovering but I'll be ready for round two pretty soon. Probably will take advantage of the Hyatt deal if it's available next time too.

Thanks to all the folks who put this together!

Some of the better parts of the night was having people from all over the city - intracoastal, arlington, southside, beaches, etc...  and they were all having a great time in these awesome venues that they have never tried.  I think it was completely eyeopening for quite a few that there's a lot more to do than go to the towncenter and have some pops at the cheescake factory. 

I had a great time, personally, and look forward to the next one. 

whats a cheesecake factory?

"The" Cheesecake Factory ... a very popular chain restaurant:
http://www.thecheesecakefactory.com/

Thanks, SarahTay, but that was just my weak attempt at humor. Sadly I am quite familiar with the Cheesecake Factory.

Well, not sadly cause I do like their cheesecake. Actually, yes sadly...for my health.

[finehoe]

As the Murray Hill area has become a hotspot for the college and post-collegiate set in recent years, the bars scene has exploded.

It would be nice if that line was referring to the Jacksonville neighborhood.

[02roadking]

And some pics too...

http://photos.jacksonville.com/mycapture/category.asp?eventID=1274983&CategoryID=10519

[wsansewjs]

I highly recommend bringing an official from the Guinness World Records for the next Jacksonville's Pub Crawl to see if we can break the world's record for the largest single linear pub crawl.

Who: World's Greatest Pub Crawl Committee 
Where: Australia
When: June 07, 2009 

Details: The largest pub crawl involved 4,718 participants who visited 10 pubs in Maryborough, Queensland, Australia, during an event organised by the World's Greatest Pub Crawl Committee, on 7 June 2009.

Source: http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/Search/Details/Most-people-on-a-pubcrawl/59031.htm

Stephen, if you can tell your Pub crew to promote this as an attempt for the world record, MORE people will come! COME ON JACKSONVILLE! We are one of the drunkest cities in United States, so let us make that ring true!

-Josh

[Captain Zissou]

Annually in London, thousands of New Zealanders take part in the Waitangi Day pub crawl, a crawl around the Circle Line on the London Underground. Starting at Paddington they work counter-clockwise around the line, usually ending at Westminster for a haka (traditional New Zealand challenge/dance) and then many continue on to the Temple Walkabout bar. While numbers vary depending on the weather, in 2008 there were reported to be around 12,000 people involved.[3]

We've got some work to do.

[BridgeTroll]

Thank

And some pics too...

http://photos.jacksonville.com/mycapture/category.asp?eventID=1274983&CategoryID=10519

Thanks roadking... I was supposed to go but was notified late of a birthday I needed to attend.  Should make the next one tho...