A team and their cart from the 2013 edition of Idiotarod NYC. Photo: Gregory Bull/AP
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EAST WILLIAMSBURG — SOUPED-UP SHOPPING CARTS and costumed teams launched from Cooper Park on Jan. 31 for the 23rd annual Idiotarod, a DIY “race” inspired by the long-distance sled-dog race in Alaska, Brooklyn Paper reports. Though the Alaska race is called the Iditarod, the Brooklyn race is the Idiot-arod. This year, 30 teams participated.
“We are looking for shenanigans,” Idiotarod volunteer Sarah Janjua told Brooklyn Paper last year. “We are looking for bribes; we are looking for [people] cutting corners.”
The daylong bar crawl ran about five miles with three bar checkpoints — Emblem in Williamsburg, Bar Cornelia in Bushwick — where the teams participate in minigames before an afterparty at The Deep End on Wyckoff Ave. where carts were hoisted and smashed.
Notable team cart decor included the Department of “Inebriation” with a cart modeled after a DSNY truck, the Kostume Kult featuring Throat Goat and Party Rat and a team with the Hot Tub Crime Machine.
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