Things started optimistically enough.
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In Williamsburg, everyone was watching.
Huge turnout #election2016 night
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There was cake, and not of the Trump variety.
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Ok, yes, there were some ominous signs.
Legit just saw a monster truck waving a Trump flag across the street from the Whole Foods in Williamsburg. A grim reaper if I ever saw one.
— Crooked Signe (@sigggnasty) November 9, 2016
Everyone had their own “survival kit,” just in case.
Election night with Trump in the lead it’s fuckin lit #zantac #acidreflux #nevertrump
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Others found more wholesome ways to keep calm and carry on.
@jonlovett @keepingit1600 overseen in the east village. Sidenote, im wetting the bed. Are we ok? #ElectionNight #ImWithHer pic.twitter.com/7Mr7pLZYLC
— David Dillon (@davedillon) November 9, 2016
#imwithher #hillyeah bedazzling to keep sane #bluestateofmind
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The election parties were all fun and games, at first.
Next #DonaldTrump piñata attacked at East Williamsburg watch party run by Latino organizers @ConMijente pic.twitter.com/fKh44uc0wG
— Gwynne Hogan (@GwynneFitz) November 9, 2016
Even Jill Stein was into it.
When it looked like Hillary would lose Florida, it was officially time to panic.
By the end of the night, the viewing parties had turned somber.
At a watching party in a bar in Williamsburg. The place has gone from fun to silent and miserable.
— Kyle O’Neill (@oneillMkyle) November 9, 2016
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all my favorite bars in the east village are filled with people aiming for blackout drunk status rn.
— brandon wenerd (@brandonwenerd) November 9, 2016
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Even the streets were empty.
East Village tonight. Quite a contrast to the jubilant crowds of 2008. Just a few stragglers with somber, shocked faces pic.twitter.com/vSTPk7fjMb
— Joshua Howes (@inthehowes) November 9, 2016
Woman screaming on the top of her lungs in the east village “someone shoot me I do not want to live in the world anymore.”
— Elizabeth Plank (@feministabulous) November 9, 2016
There were purge jokes, but no one was laughing.
Helicopters are hovering over the Union Square/ East Village area. It’s like they’re waiting to fire the starter pistol for the purge.
— Rico aka Superbizzee (@Superbizzee) November 9, 2016
Helicopters over the East Village #itstarts
— Peter Feld (@peterfeld) November 9, 2016
A guy in Bushwick earlier looked at me: “Tonight is the purge, man. Are you ready?”
— Andrew (@therichdale) November 9, 2016
Then came the tears.
Tonight, in bushwick BK, the streets have gone silent. People are crying, trying to look & gather their thoughts, shocked and scared..
— Ryan Robert Howard (@RyanRobrtHoward) November 9, 2016
Groups of women openly crying and embracing on the streets of a Bushwick right now.
— Hillary (@hmcdani2) November 9, 2016
In a bar in Williamsburg and shit is tense as fuck. Trump is leading and there are tears.
— Sweet Sweet (@ZandiTee) November 9, 2016
Others vented in the only way NYC knows how.
New art in Williamsburg pic.twitter.com/EW0gTFtbmP
— Lauren Gill (@laurenk_gill) November 9, 2016
This morning, people were still in shock.
In 2008 when Obama won this Williamsburg intersection in Brooklyn was a huge crowded party till dawn. Today, 7:15am pic.twitter.com/v4sCIehsad
— Sid Griffin (@SidCPsGriffin) November 9, 2016
Riding a subway car in NYC today is like being at a moving wake with a load of people you don't know, no booze and delays
— Neal Mann (@fieldproducer) November 9, 2016
This subway car is like a funeral procession. Never seen Union Square so quiet. NYC is in mourning.
— Kale Merchant (@FEELZ_) November 9, 2016
Walking in New York City this morning. Everyone looks like they were unexpectedly served divorce papers last night.
— Robby Slowik (@RobbySlowik) November 9, 2016
Just did my entire commute from the East Village to Midtown without hearing a single person speak.
— Erica Pishdadian (@ericapishdadian) November 9, 2016
I remember walking around the east village in #nyc hours after 9/11 and seeing peoples faces of horror and fear. Same faces today 11/9/16
— Zo (@MostPreciousZo) November 9, 2016
Williamsburg is in shock. And possibly grief. There is little talking, no smiling, and zero eye contact but the occasional searching stare.
— Lachlan Hardy (@lachlanhardy) November 9, 2016
Last time I saw this many depressed looking faces on the streets of Williamsburg was when the Starbucks and Urban Outfitters opened.
— Neal Mann (@fieldproducer) November 9, 2016
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