Wednesday's event, dubbed the “Running of the Goats”, was really much more of a stroll. Maybe a trot, for some. That might be generous. A crowd of revellers gathered to watch the goats' send-off, eagerly chiming in for the yodelling bits as a choir sang The Lonely Goatherd from The Sound of Music. Though most of the herd left the park on Wednesday, five lucky goats will be allowed to summer there. People clad in yellow Riverside Park Conservancy T-shirts functioned simultaneously as cheerleaders and shepherds for the goats, ushering them past the spectators and a media gaggle with camera shutters aflutter.