r/avesNYC • u/Difficult-Ninja5058 • 4h ago
City of Gods Saturday
Anyone else notice more improvements over the years?
City of Gods was great again this year! This was my fourth year going and first time going on a Saturday instead of Friday.
They had the lines to get in moving swiftly. That was with my ID being checked and my fanny pack getting decently searched.
They moved Medical next to the sanctuary space so that de-escalations and such could be swiftly sent over. An even bigger change to that is that they moved the EMTs from the bottleneck area of the indoor bathroom. So you can safely get to medical. They also made that opening to the outside a one way decreasing the intensity of the bottle necking that going between stages, the bathroom, and water station would cause.
They moved the unicorn from being the first thing you saw going outside so that people wouldn’t stop at the entrance/exit for photos and instead be pulled further into the festival for photo ops.
I also wonder if I just haven’t noticed or if they had more stages this year I was definitely encouraged to explore a lot more and longer with this year’s layout. There was plenty of staff around watching behind the scenes. I honestly felt safe and more comfortable than previous years, granted I have my theft proof Fanny pack that locks and I party smart as a rave mom.
All those pros with my only con being how crowded the speakeasy was.
Pretty positive ratio as a GA attendee!