I got another cryptic text from a friend last Friday afternoon: “Fight Club in Union Square. GET HERE.”
We
saw this on Gothamist and can't figure out what the hell it means. Are
the Fight Club fanatics and wannabes taking it to the streets now,
bored of duking it out with their multiple personalities in bar
basements across the nation? Are hipsters finally getting into
thuggery, as the Old Guard in the Fifties feared they would?
New
York City, which has police everywhere, including dozens of
plainclothes in Union Square at any given moment, seems an unlikely
place for people to get away with this sort of thing. (For those who
don't know the Square, think of someone getting away with an illegal
boxing match in a smaller version of Times Square and you'll get the
idea.)
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