A massive chair-swinging brawl erupted at a seafood restaurant on New York’s City Island, the entire scene was filmed.
The video, which has racked up more than 55,000 views since it was posted Thursday on World Star Hip Hop, was filmed at Seafood City in the Bronx’s famed seafood neighborhood, City Island.
The video begins with a couple of women starting hitting each other in a restaurant before others join in the fight.
Some guests gawk at the escalating melee while others head for the exit as the fight begins to spread throughout the restaurant, with women eventually grabbing metal chairs to use as weapons as the standoff escalates.
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“Damn ghetto,” read the caption to the video. “I can already see summer coming”
Pictured: One of the women grabs a metal chair and starts using it as a weapon as the fight escalates.
Spectators try to film one woman with another as they fight on the restaurant floor.
“Damn ghetto,” read the caption to the video. “I can already see summer coming.”
Several guests then appeared to attempt to intervene and help several of the women sitting on the ground to their feet, as others could be seen standing on tables with cell phones in hand as they also filmed the wild fight.
Meanwhile, one man tries to move a woman away from another woman as they fight on the restaurant floor. The other man tries to help push the last two fighters apart, but to no avail.
Eventually, the fight subsides as the restaurant empties out. Several women can be seen picking up cell phones and other items that fell to the floor during the fight as the last two women involved in the fight finally parted ways.
No arrests had been made as of Thursday, and the exact cause of the fight was not immediately known, police said.
One man, shown standing, tries to take the woman off the other woman as they fight on the restaurant floor, but to no avail.
Eventually, the fight subsides as the restaurant begins to empty.
It’s unclear exactly when the video was taken, but the date it was uploaded falls on St. Patrick’s Day, a holiday notorious for drunkenness and often debauchery, when celebrated in the US.
The video looks almost identical to another chair-throwing fight that took place in the same restaurant in 2017.
Several people used chairs to brutally beat each other at a family restaurant in the Bronx, New York, according to police and video footage of the incident.
The video captures the chaos at Seafood City on City Island Avenue, police said.
People can be seen throwing and using chairs as shields in the restaurant’s large dining room.
The video looks almost identical to another chair-throwing fight that took place in the same restaurant in 2017.
In the 2017 brawl, several people also used chairs to savagely beat each other, according to police and video footage of the incident.
The video, which was similarly shared on social media, was captioned with the caption, “Don’t go to City Island if you can’t fight.”
Viewers compared it to a WWE pro wrestling match.
By the time the police arrived, the fight was gone. There were no reports to the police.
It’s unclear what started the fight, but Seafood City officials said they believed alcohol was the cause.
Seafood City stopped serving alcohol when it was closed until further notice at 6 p.m. Friday, according to signs posted by restaurant management.