The grand entrance was an assassination. Gavin McInnes, the founder of the ultranationalist group the Proud Boys, spoke Friday night at the New York Metropolitan…
32 Arrested as May Day Ralliers Clash With Trump Supporters
Some 32 people were arrested yesterday as hundreds gathered in Union Square for May Day. While most came to participate in demonstrations supporting international workers…
What to Expect On May Day: Marches, Patti Smith, and the ‘Adventurous, Angry, and Arrest-able’
Grab your bandiera rossa, May Day is just around the corner and labor rights groups have called for mass actions and strikes across New York City…
‘Grannies For Peace’ Find All This War Stuff Very Taxing
The hippie generation may have grown old but that doesn’t mean they’ve forgotten how to protest. A crowd of octogenarians gathered today at 280 Broadway…
Passover ‘Feels Different’: Immigration Activists Held a Seder Outside of ICE
Dozens of activists gathered for a morning Passover seder today in front of 26 Federal Plaza, New York’s Immigration Center, to stand in solidarity with…
Anti-Fascist Group Protests Bell Curve Author’s NYU Talk
Students and faculty members of NYU protested an appearance by controversial sociologist Charles Murray today, accusing him of racism and junk science. But the demonstration…
Spa Castle in Hot Water, Thanks to Alleged $1.5M in Unpaid Taxes
Even in the wake of Spa Castle’s aquatic sex problem, the death of an elderly man in one of its jacuzzis, and a child’s near drowning, it seemed that…
Activism the ‘Hot New Trend’ at NADA New York? Au Contraire, Art Fair
Desperate times call for desperate art. But unlike the Spring/Break show, with its trash-tastic pop politics and unabashed and urgent ruggedness, NADA 2017 felt prim, proper…
How Sex Sold Songs in New York’s Early Theater Days
This week, we continue with our series of longer pieces unraveling the histories of storied buildings. James Norman knew exactly what he was doing when he walked…