NYC residents ecstatic over OZY Fest cancellation

News of the OZY Fest cancellation wasn’t sitting well with out-of-state ticket holders on Friday, with many traveling from far and wide to be at the two-day Central Park event — which cost a whopping $399 to attend.

New Yorkers, on the other hand — who blasted the city for renting out a typically free public space and “going capitalist” — were ecstatic

Surely you know who Megan Rapinoe is don't you? (Think Women's Soccer)

In 2016 Ozy launched a live event dubbed "OZY Fest" in 2016 which sparked a lawsuit from Ozzy Osbourne's Ozzfest in 2017. OZY Fest has featured performances and discussions with notable figures including Wyclef Jean, Isse Rae, Cory Booker and Will.i.am in 2016; Katie Couric, Jason Derulo, Zara Larsson, Samantha Bee and RuPaul in 2017; and Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Handler, Hasan Minhaj, Michelle Wolf, Young the Giant, Passion Pit, Grouplove, Common, Laverne Cox, Salman Rushdie, Rose McGowan and Awkwafina in 2018. Journalist and writer Malcolm Gladwell has appeared at all three OZY Fest events.

From 2016 to 2018, OZY Fest was held in Rumsey Playfield of New York City's Central Park.

In May 2019, Ozy announced that OZY Fest 2019 would be held on Central Park's Great Lawn, and would feature John Legend, Miguel, Tove Lo, Trevor Noah, Mark Cuban, Malcolm Gladwell, John Stessel, Jameela Jamil, Spike Lee, Deepak Chopra, Beto O'Rourke, John Kasich, Stacey Abrams, Rachael Ray and Padma Lakshmi[28]. The event will be co-hosted by former baseball player Alex Rodriguez, as well as Ozy's Carlos Watson[29].

SOURCE: Wikipedia

I had to look it up myself. 8>)

If CP is open space for public taxpayer use, then it would actually MAKE SENSE for NYC to charge a FEE for some private interest that takes over part of the park for a few days, since they would be encroaching on the public open space.

There’s no accounting for the way some New Yorkers think.

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