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Pall hangs over de Blasio victory bash

It was a tale of two victory parties.

Inside, revelers sat in a VIP room and rubbed elbows with celebrities like Cynthia Nixon.

Outside, volunteers for Bill de Blasio sat on the sidewalk watching election returns on two projection screens.

If they wanted to eat, they had a choice of gourmet pizza for $10 or lobster rolls for $16; they washed it down with bottled water.

It was billed as a victory block party, complete with barricades at the end of the street.

But the timing seemed all wrong for a blowout bash, even as de Blasio flirted with a finish that would avoid a runoff.

Hours before election results started filling the giant screens outside the Bell House in Park Slope, President Obama was on television speaking about the atrocities of the Syrian government and its alleged use of deadly serin gas.

“The images from this massacre are sickening: men, women, children lying in rows, killed by poison gas, others foaming at the mouth, gasping for breath, a father clutching his dead children, imploring them to get up and walk,” the president said.

Adding to the pall was the reminder that the 12th anniversary of 9/11 was just hours away.

But that didn’t stop the de Blasio crowd from cheering as if they’d won the lottery.

De Blasio did say he would take a break Wednesday to honor those who died in the terrorist attacks a dozen years ago.

Hours before declaring victory with a rousing speech about vital ideas, de Blasio spent a little time with the hard workers outside.

“I heard there was a little block party, and I had to come over,” de Blasio tod the cheering crowd.
“We are so thankful for everything you did today. It was amazing.”

Then the candidate who talked endlessly about two cities went inside past the red velvet rope to the club and all it’s celebrities.

Party on.