SantaCon's Been Too Naughty to Come To Town, Midtown Police Say

Police Say SantaCon Too Rowdy For Midtown
NEW YORK - DECEMBER 12: New Yorkers dressed as Santa Claus gather in Washington Square Park during the annual Santacon event December 12, 2009 in New York City. Santacon is a mass gathering of revelers dressed as Santa who take to the streets in cities across the country before Christmas. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)
NEW YORK - DECEMBER 12: New Yorkers dressed as Santa Claus gather in Washington Square Park during the annual Santacon event December 12, 2009 in New York City. Santacon is a mass gathering of revelers dressed as Santa who take to the streets in cities across the country before Christmas. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

MIDTOWN — SantaCon's sleigh bells are being silenced in Midtown.

The NYPD's Midtown North Precinct sent letters to about 30 bars, clubs and lounges in Midtown and Hell's Kitchen earlier this month, urging the nightspots not to welcome participants in the annual daylong bar crawl for hundreds of bearded, red-and-white-clad revelers.

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