A couple thousand people, mostly wearing Santa Claus costumes but many others sporting holiday elf hats and boots, converged on Midtown for SantaCon, the annual bar crawl that for many years went down in the East Village, until its bar-owners and residents had enough of the drunken behavior. Photos by C.S. Muncy for the Village Voice.
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Ho, Ho, Bro: How SantaCon Went From Joyful Performance Art to Reviled Bar Crawl