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“A lot of people made plans to come from Europe and other states in America to be there,” said Mr. Poulis, who added that he and his wife planned to leave town for the weekend. “I have no control over that. I will not be around.”

Smart move. 

A Party Is Off, but Who’ll Stop the Guests?
By ELLEN BARRY

By sundown last July 9, the park police were running out of ideas. The permit allowed for 1,500 attendees, but the crowd had swelled to 40,000, nudging the person-to-port-a-john ratio to a vertiginous 2,200 to 1. Revelers pitched tents, hammering stakes into the asphalt runways of Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn. Several set up barbecues in the visitors’ center.

The event was Guyanese-American Family Fun Day, a yearly celebration that began 11 years ago with 30 people and grew exponentially, largely via word of mouth.