{"id":122684,"date":"2026-02-04T15:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T15:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/122684\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T15:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T15:13:10","slug":"brooklyns-23rd-annual-idiotarod-cart-race-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/122684\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn\u2019s 23rd annual Idiotarod cart race a success"},"content":{"rendered":"

A team and their cart from the 2013 edition of Idiotarod NYC. Photo: Gregory Bull\/AP<\/p>\n

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EAST WILLIAMSBURG \u2014 SOUPED-UP SHOPPING CARTS and costumed teams launched from Cooper Park on Jan. 31 for the 23rd annual Idiotarod, a DIY \u201crace\u201d inspired by the long-distance sled-dog race in Alaska, Brooklyn Paper<\/a> reports. Though the Alaska race is called the Iditarod, the Brooklyn race is the Idiot-arod. This year, 30 teams participated.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are looking for shenanigans,\u201d Idiotarod volunteer Sarah Janjua told Brooklyn Paper last year<\/a>. \u201cWe are looking for bribes; we are looking for [people] cutting corners.\u201d<\/p>\n

The daylong bar crawl ran about five miles with three bar checkpoints \u2014 Emblem in Williamsburg, Bar Cornelia in Bushwick \u2014 where the teams participate in minigames before an afterparty at The Deep End on Wyckoff Ave. where carts were hoisted and smashed.<\/p>\n

Notable team cart decor included the Department of \u201cInebriation\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

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