LepreCon Bar Crawl Is Back On For 2022 In Hoboken

HOBOKEN, NJ — Hoboken's most infamous bar crawl — known as "LepreCon" —is on for the first Saturday in March again, according to websites selling tickets.

"Let's keep the tradition going!" says one site, boasting that the event will start at "Hoboken's trendiest bars" at 10 a.m. "Our Hoboken LepreCon Crawl is a phenomenon that takes place every March and is better than ever in 2022."

A different LepreCon site has not been updated since 2021.

The crawl started around 10 years ago when the city asked the planners of the traditional St. Patrick's Parade to move their event from Saturdays to a weekday, in order to cut the house parties that sprouted on the same day. The planners refused, and canceled the 25-year tradition for good.

In its wake, entrepreneurs set up a bar crawl that — like Hoboken Santacon — aroused the ire of local public officials.

Due to well-publicized fines and other enforcement measures, arrests from the event have declined over the years:

• There were six arrests during Hoboken LepreCon 2020.
• Leprecon 2021 was canceled.
• There were four arrests this past December during Hoboken Santacon.

This past November, the city of Hoboken announced that only vaccinated patrons could participate in Hoboken Santacon.

Patch has reached out to the city for comment and will update the story when it's received.

On Monday, the city announced that it was lifting mask mandates on indoor businesses as of this Wednesday, after re-insituting them in December. READ MORE: Hoboken To Repeal Mask Mandate, With Exceptions

Meanwhile, people in a neighboring state seem pretty excited to be getting their own LepreCon. If you head up the Quickway and veer west, you can enjoy LepreCon Buffalo.

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