Just months after a stampede of Justin Bieber fans caused a near riot in a Long Island mall, the Canadian teen sensation is returning to suburban New York. (They’d better call in The National Guard!) A charity canned food drive has won students at a local middle school a concert by the “My World” crooner.
On Tuesday, officials at Long Beach Middle School in Lido Beach say The Messiah of the Tween Scene, 15, will perform at the school sometime in February. In November, the Long Island school beat out 149 other New York metropolitan area schools food drive by collecting more than 27,000 pounds of food. The Long Beach campus will be shut down for the school-only event.
In November, police shut down an Bieber album signing event at Long Island’s Roosevelt Field Mall. A crowd of 3,000 young girls and adults began pushing and shoving, sending five people to the hospital with minor injuries.