New York City Mayor Eric Adams suggested the city will take action against the organizers of the Electric Zoo music festival. As you surely know, Labor Day weekend was a pretty hectic one for the NYC festival. It all started on Friday, with the cancellation of the whole first day due to supply chain disruptions (some of the stages were not finished yet). As if one crisis wasnât enough, Saturday had reported 4 hour-will call lines. Sunday was the cherry on top when hundreds of attendees decided to break through the festivalâs entrance after the organizers reported the festival had reached its maximum capacity.
Mayor Adams promised to deal with the eventâs organizers, which happens to be Avant Gardner owners. The NYPD estimated they oversold Electric Zooâs 42,500-person capacity limit by 7,000 tickets on Sunday. âItâs unfortunate that the organizers wanted to turn our city into a zoo, and we were not going to allow that to happenâ, Adams said during an NYPD briefing on Tuesday.
âwe will be dealing with them in the next few days based on their behavior and actions.â
-Mayor Eric Adams.
Adamsâ comments about the three-day electronic music festival mark a significant shift for him, who had publicly supported Avant Gardner as recently as March. The facility, which is home to the Brooklyn Mirage, has been under intense scrutiny in recent weeks following the death of two concert-goers in the nearby Newtown Creek.
NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell placed blame for Sundayâs gate-crashing directly on Electric Zoo organizers overselling the festival. Chell noted this year was the first year Avant Gardnerâs owners â including Juergen âBillyâ Bildstein â had operated Electric Zoo on their own. Obviously, there will be more development on this story, as EZoo has been pretty quiet these days.
Stay tuned for more news!