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Hillary Clinton Holding (Victory?) Rally in Brooklyn During Tomorrow’s California Primary
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The After-Bern: Twitter Reacts to Neighborhood Primary Results
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Many were surprised to find that, despite the wave of Bernie media attention, he buckled under the quiet, pragmatic Hillary voters hiding in plain site. For the most part, HRC prevailed easily in Williamsburg and the Lower East Side. The East Village was as divided as we expected it to be, with Hillary faring better in Alphabet City than she did further west. Meanwhile Bernie won Greenpoint by a landslide, and there’s now a new dividing line in Bushwick (North Bushwick went to Bernie, South to Hillary).
East Villagers Feeling the Bern, and Hillary Too
Pure Americana in the East Village (Photo: Luisa Rollenhagen)
While there were major hiccups at a polling site in Williamsburg this Primary Day, things were pretty chill in the East Village, where the voters we spoke to seemed pretty split between Bernie and Hillary. (Maybe it was those Uncle Don posters, but no one seemed to want to Make America Great Again.)
Problems at Williamsburg Polling Station Just One of Many Headaches For Voters
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In case you haven’t noticed the litany of passive aggressive, condescending, or otherwise ignorant status updates flooding your Facebook feed, it’s voting day for the New York primaries y’all! And the questions on everyone’s mind remain: Are we Cruzin’ for a Trump bruisin’? And, as Carolyn Hines, a poll station volunteer at Cooper Park Houses joked, “You wanna know if we feelin the Bern or if we Hillary Clinton? Because we can’t really say that.”
But not everyone who visited the East Williamsburg polling station today was in such high spirits, and that’s actually why we showed up on the scene. As we found out on Twitter this morning, some local voters arrived at their designated voting site at the crack of dawn (no doubt some of them hoping to cast their vote before work started this morning) only to find that they were SOL.
As Primary Results Come In, Head to This ‘Safe Space’ to See Hill and Bern Dance Off
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It’s finally here: the day we’ll find out whether Hillbots or Bernie Bros prevail in New York. Don’t just admire #feelthebern street art or strut around in your pantsuit–get out there to the polls!
After you’re done casting your citizenly duty, you could head to a bar to watch the results roll in, or sit around the apartment refreshing your iPhone every five minutes. What we recommend, however, is to celebrate the finale of New York primary season by hightailing it over to The Debates: New York Primary Performance, presented by Theater in Asylum at The Kraine Theatre. Whether you’re a political junkie, a theater freak, or just kind of curious what all the fuss is about, the show is the perfect capsule of our surreal political culture.
Trumpmania Claims to Be ‘Greatest Donald Trump Art Show Anywhere in the World’
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While Bernie gets his own street art and gallery show and Hillary is feted with a Bushwick pantsuit competition, that other presidential candidate with New York roots has seen something of a “cultural flowering” in his own right. If you haven’t yet had a chance to “Beat up Trump” or bash a piñata of the real-estate mogul’s likeness, tonight you can head to Trumpmania, an orange-haired art exhibit and auction at 311 East Broadway where there’s “something for everyone” (yep, even Trump supporters).
#MuppetBernie the Uncontested Winner of Washington Square Park Rally
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Forget the modest muppet at the Bernie-themed art show coming to the Bowery this weekend, this muppet really took Manhattan. It remains to be seen whether Bernie Sanders will win the Democratic nomination, but this guy was definitely a winner at the underdog candidate’s Washington Square Park rally. As Muppet Bernie walked down Broadway after the event let out, he was stopped for selfies by dozens and dozens of the estimated 27,000-plus people who flooded the Village to hear from Vampire Weekend, Rosario Dawson, Tim Robbins, Spike Lee, and bird-whisperin’ Bern himself.
What’s the One Question Bernie Ralliers Would Ask Hillary at the Debate?
As a YUGE crowd gathered for a Bernie Sanders rally in Washington Square Park this afternoon, we asked his supporters (some of which had been there since 1:30 a.m.) what they’d ask Hillary Clinton at Thursday’s Brooklyn debate. Click through to read their responses.
NYU Tells Students to Brace For ‘Thousands of People’ at Bernie Rally
A march for Sanders in January. (Photo: Konstantin Sergeyev)
While a pro-Hillary pantsuit competition brews in Bushwick, NYU is warning its students that “thousands of people” are expected to attend a Bernie Sanders rally in Washington Square park at 6 p.m. on Wednesday. A campus-wide email from the school’s Vice President for Health advises that some streets in Greenwich Village will be closed off and the area will be crowded, but if you’re an NYU student wondering whether this means you get to miss class (or your shift at Bedford + Bowery) — sorry, no.
Bushwick Party Aims to Lure Hillary Voters (and Their Pantsuits) ‘Out of the Closet’
Bernie Sanders supporters have been burning in Bushwick for months now, but that doesn’t mean the neighborhood is completely in Bernie’s mothball-filled pocket. Heather Fink– a Greenpoint sound mixer, filmmaker, and comedian– is hoping Hillaryheads will “come out of the closet” for Chillary NYC 2016, a late-night comedy showcase she’s throwing at Gold Sounds in Bushwick this Saturday. And she hopes a lot of them will bring their limiest green attire out of the closet with them, because there’s going to be a pantsuit competition.