Electric Zoo Chaos Won't Go Unpunished By NYC, Mayor Says

NEW YORK CITY — A weekend of overcrowded, stampeding chaos at Electric Zoo festival on Randalls Island struck the wrong note with concertgoers and Mayor Eric Adams alike.

Adams promised Tuesday that city officials will be "dealing" with the festival's organizers in the coming days.

The three-day event saw a cancelation Friday, a stampede of hundreds of concertgoers rushing gates and crowds reach well over capacity at 88,000, officials said.

"Unfortunate that the organizers wanted to turn our city into a zoo," Adams said.

Electric Zoo wasn't the only festival to descend into chaos this holiday weekend.

Thousands of Burning Man festival goers were stuck in the Nevada desert after storms turned roads into an impassable, muddy mess.

The problems for Electric Zoo were less weather-related and instead seemed to come to organization, at least based off a torrent of angry tweets.

Concertgoers complained about Friday's cancelation, hours-long lines Saturday and the abrupt announcement Sunday evening that they couldn't be let inside because the venue reached maximum capacity.

"Fyre Festival but like for New Yorkers: Electric Zoo," one person tweeted, evoking the notorious 2017 fiasco.