\u201c9\/11 Silent Disco for Unity & Support\u201d party<\/a> featuring \u201cmusic, unity and remembrance\u2019\u2019 Friday, the somber 25th anniversary of the terrorist attack that killed nearly 3,000 people in Manhattan that day.<\/p>\nA previous Quiet Events Silent Disco takes place at the Bohemian Beer Garden in Astoria, Queens, in July 2024. YouTube\/QuietEvents<\/p>\n
Some locals and social-media users swiftly slammed the venue for mixing a national tragedy with a bar night.<\/p>\n
\u201cIncredibly gross dance event,\u201d said Wil Roth in a dissatisfied one-star Google review Saturday..<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t pretend this tasteless, insensitive event and response was about anyone but yourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
The event, which features headphones for customers, was promoted on Instagram with bizarre language about \u201cdancing with intention\u201d and came with a cheesy AI-generated flier with the wrong skyline in the backdrop.<\/p>\n
The second plane crashes into the World Trade Center in Manhattan on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. Tamara Beckwith\/NY Post<\/p>\n
The business responded to the public outcry by defending the event and its promotion of it.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone is entitled to their opinion, but we stand firmly behind our team and this post,\u201d claimed the business in a statement on social media \u2014 adding the event flyer was \u201cdesigned by a U.S. Army veteran on our staff using AI tools to bring the project together.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bohemian Hall & Beer Garden is taking heat over a 9\/11 dance event. Kevin C. Downs for NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cWe could have done a ton of different things today or nothing at all in remembrance of 9\/11,\u2019\u2019 Bohemian said. \u201cWe however wanted to do something.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
The response only incensed some members of the public more.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis cannot be real. They have to be f\u2013king with us,\u201d a fed-up reddit user said of the beer garden\u2019s response.<\/p>\n
Another forum user wrote, \u201cI still can\u2019t believe how gross this poster is and that they doubled down on defending it.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
Someone else said, \u201cThey are being patronizing assholes here, and flexing MILITARY + Al is hilarious.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A city beer garden is facing furious backlash for holding a 9\/11 \u201cdisco\u2019\u2019 event \u2014 and promoting it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[113412,8978,3306,75009,75,84,83,57,9,24,63,58],"class_list":["post-345759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-9-11-25th-anniversary","tag-beer","tag-charity","tag-disco","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}