Midnight Snowball Fight on Ludlow [Video]
Boys will be boys. Especially in a nighttime snowstorm. At midnight, a crew of dorm dwellers from the Ludlow Residence poured onto the street outside Bank of America for a brief snowball fight.
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America’s second favorite pastime. Or something.
Meanwhile, we learned that a simultaneous snowball fight was happening just a hop-skip-jump away. @tastenyc was part of an epic battle that was shut down by the cops:
Ludlow and Rivington, like 100ppl but the cops busted us up! Then they got stuck in the snow! Historical LES moment…we had the perfect battle station set up in front of welcome johnsons, they 86ed us for throwing snow balls! LAMES.
And apparently the cops had nothing better to do than issue tickets, as @NY_Night_Train noted:
Kids getting disorderly conduct tickets for snowball fights in the lower east side? Glad Yr tax dollars are going to something important
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