Blog: May 2005

Almost every time a city resident comes to Hoboken, he or she realizes it's really not that far. Even Sunset Park and Crown Heights dwellers can get here in about the same amount of time it takes to get to Midtown. Last weekend many of them made the very short trek and joined a handful of Hobokenites for an afternoon of board games like Catch Phrase, Apples to Apples, Boggle, Taboo, Pic-Telephone, and Mafia.

Cosmopolity is best known for the calendar and for Drinking Liberally, but we also organize many other activities. This past weekend, on May Day, we hosted Get the Campaigns Cooking: A May Day Cook-Out, where volunteers from 2004 met the campaigns of 2005 and 2006. New York City has an election coming up this fall, meaning there are a lot of very interesting races going on right now, not to mention Congress in 2006.

We heard from Congressional candidates Chris Owens (Brooklyn) and Ben Shuldiner (northern Westchester and surrounding area), Manhattan Borough President contenders Scott Stringer and Carlos Manzano, Mark Peters running for Brooklyn DA, and three City Council candidates, Eric Cesnik (Upper East Side), Gur Tsabar (East Village/Lower East Side), and Darren Bloch (same district). Representatives from Gifford Miller's and Anthony Weiner's mayoral campaigns, Borough President candidate Brian Ellner, and several others joined in, talking to potential supporters and recruiting volunteers.

And I got to meet Al Franken the next evening.