BETWEEN JUNETEETH AND FATHER’S DAY, THE BMA HAD THE PLEASURE OF CO-HOSTING the kick off of summer with the 5th edition of NARCCCs. a beautiful afternoon with clear skies and mild wind, we coordinated once again at the center of tompkins park, the hare krishna tree. No bands by the Hare Krishna jam sesh start this year, but we did have a few bands, MC’s, DJ’s and Vordul Mega of Cannibal Ox performing at Tompkins! We kept things pretty simple this year with racers having 90 minutes to sell as much flower or powder depending on what the “customer” wanted at each of the five checkpoints. one bill was worth one point, a dice roll determined their next checkpoint. Racers had to pay attention to a few fake bills thrown into the mix, as well as beating the clock to check out ON TIME. Lateness and counterfeits subtracted from their final score #sucks2suck

 a modest group of about 20 participants, including two femme racing the simulated serve race. different from the typical alleycat, racers shake dice to determine their next checkpoint, being the “customer” or “client”, sometimes having to return to the same checkpoint a number a times, or another checkpoint if at all. consisting of ninety (90) minutes, racers need to collect the most amount of “cash” to determine how much “weed” they sold. Runners had to avoid given “faker” cash from their customers/clients, thus penalizing, and points deducted for every five minutes late, not arriving at the finish.

Upon fishing, the bma managed to hold down a makeshift area to bbq underneath the williamsburg bridge in east river park. racers finishing pulled up with their manifest, “money” in exchange of good complimentary food for their efforts, in addition to our checkpoint volunteers. the first cookout of many this summer at East River Park under the Willy-B Bridge. Shout out to the grill master JEROME, for stepping up and keeping everyone fed! Thank you as always to ROBIN for making the spokecards for the event with KEVIN BURNEY (AKA WRETCHED BEAST) artwork. Thank you to all our volunteers, and to Jerry & bennitt for snapping photos. Thank you to twocrows for pulling up with a tray of delicious bogeys 🚬 to munch on. Congrats to all our racers, including all the out of towners that pulled up. A very special HAPPY BDAY to our 2026 Borolympics champ and 🥈 for NARCCCs this year, DAne.