It was a tale of two victory parties.
Inside, revelers sat in a VIP room andܫ rubbed elbows with celebrities like Cynthia Nixon.
Outside, volunteers for Bill de Blasio sa♑t on the sidewalk watching election returns on two projection screens.
If they wanted to eat, the𒀰y had a choice of gourmet pizza for $10 or lobster rolls for $16; they washed it down🌟 with bottled water.
It was b🎉illed as a victory block party, complete with barricades aꦜt the end of the street.
But the timing seemed all wron📖g for a blowout bash, even as de Blasio flirted with a finish that would avoid a runoff.
Hours before election results started filling the giant screens outside the Bell House in Park Slope, President Obama was on television speaking about the atrocities of the Syrian 🐻government and its alleged use of deadly serin gas.
“Th⛦e images from this massacre are sickening: men, women, children lying in rows, killed by poison gasඣ, others foaming at the mouth, gasping for breath, a father clutching his dead children, imploring them to get up and walk,” the president said.
Adding to th𒁃e pall was the reminder that the 12th anniversary of 9/11 was just hours away.
But that didn’t stop the de Blasio crowd from🦋 cheering as if they’d won the lottery.
D🧜e Blasio did say he would take a break Wednesday to honor tho👍se who died in the terrorist attacks a dozen years ago.
Hours before declaring victory with a rousi𝄹ng speech about vital ideas, de Blasio spent a little time with the hard wo๊rkers outside.
“I heard there was a little block party, and I had to come over,” de Blasio tod the cheering crowd.
“We are so thankful for everything you did today. 𒉰It wa♚s amazing.”
Then the candidate who talked endlessly about two citi෴es went inside past the red velvet rope to the club and all it’s celebrities.
Party on.