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MAP: Here Are the Bars To Avoid During SantaCon

By  Nicole Levy and Lisha Arino | December 10, 2015 11:22am | Updated on December 11, 2015 7:57pm

 People dressed as Santa walk down the street during SantaCon 2012. 
People dressed as Santa walk down the street during SantaCon 2012. 
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For those who want to avoid the hordes of drunk Santas roaming about Williamsburg and the Lower East Side Saturday, SantaCon organizers have released maps (and we made one here) that reveal some of the stops along their planned route.

The maps are part of the organizers' efforts to work with the NYPD and the Parks Department in addressing community concerns about the event's disruptiveness in past years

As DNAinfo reported, the event will kick off at McCarren Park at 10 a.m.

From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., participants will be welcome at the following Williamsburg bars, according to maps published by Gothamist: Verboten at 54 N. 11th St., Villan at 50 N. 3rd St., Viva Toro at 188 Berry St., and the Hall at 470 Driggs Ave.

From Williamsburg, the red-and-white decked masses will migrate to the Lower East Side, where The Delancey (168 Delancey St.) will fuel their intoxicated shenanigans from 1 to 7 p.m.

They'll then stumble northward to the East Village, settling at 230 Fifth (230 5th Ave.), Bar 13 (35 E. 13th St.), and Solas (232 E. 9th St.) from 3 to 7 p.m.

A number of the above destinations were reported by The New York Times on Wednesday.

In the meantime, the NYPD, which has been working with SantaCon organizers for the past month to create as orderly a drunken procession as possible, is asking those participating Saturday to "be courteous to our City."

"Don't be a bad Santa!" urged the 102nd precinct, which covers Richmond Hill, Queens, in a tweet Wednesday night

But such warnings aren't enough to appease the Lower East Side Dwellers, a community group that has led the anti-SantaCon movement.

"Residents, small unlicensed businesses, and legitimate restaurants already are negatively impacted as a result of liquor license density in [Williamsburg, the Lower East Side and the East Village]," said founder Diem Boyd in an email to DNAinfo. "By sanctioning SantaCon to be routed through these long suffering communities, the powers that be have shown how tone-deaf they are to the pressing quality of life and safety issues found in these areas."

For a full list of host bars, you'll have to check santacon.nyc or Twitter on Friday, the day organizers traditionally reveal the event's route.

UPDATE: One Lower East Side venue that appeared on the maps published this morning, the restaurant and lounge The DL, has pulled out of SantaCon as of Thursday afternoon. 

"After careful deliberation, the DL has decided to cancel the Santacon event this Saturday," management said in a statement. "We don't believe that holding the event would be in the best interest of our brand or of the surrounding community."

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