Crowd Overwhelms NYC's Union Square as Giveaway Turns Into Melee.

The New York City subway's 4, 5, 6, L, N, Q, R and W trains will bypass the 14 Street-Union Square station in both directions because of police activity, the Metropolitan Transit Authority said earlier Friday. (Bloomberg) -- Several thousand people gathered in New York City's Union Square on Friday afternoon, a police spokesperson said, briefly sparking chaos and temporarily disrupting mass transit. [Extracted from the article]