Ribbons spanning all the colors of the rainbow hung from the gray walkway and black fences enclosing the trees perched in front of the salmon-pink…
International Women’s Day and #ADayWithoutaWoman: Art, Marches, and ‘Militant’ Partying
This Wednesday, International Women’s Day also happens to be #adaywithoutawoman. Last month, the folks behind the Women’s March on Washington announced plans for a nationwide…
Hundreds Rally for the Right to Refuse Stop and Frisk
In 2013 Mayor Bill De Blasio was voted into office with pledges to reign in police violence and stop-and-frisk policing targeted at blacks and latinos. (Remember that…
Dr. Jay’s Mogul Accused of Tenant Harassment on the Bowery
More than 100 Chinatown residents and their supporters crowded onto the sidewalk in front of 83 and 85 Bowery yesterday afternoon, marching around the block and gumming…
NYU Tells Students to Brace For ‘Thousands of People’ at Bernie Rally
While a pro-Hillary pantsuit competition brews in Bushwick, NYU is warning its students that “thousands of people” are expected to attend a Bernie Sanders rally in…
Chinatown Protesters Call Mayor’s Housing Plan ‘Nothing But a Big Scam’
It was freezing outside, but the 60-odd Chinatown community activists gathered in front of Gracie Mansion yesterday were fired up. In English, Spanish and Chinese, they…
Hundreds of Protesters Take the Fight Against Donald Trump to His Backyard
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has been protested with street art, gallery shows, and even a piñata pummeling, but yesterday brought an unprecedented scene as an eclectic crowd of New…
Hundreds Gathered in Union Square For Charlie Hebdo Victims
Hundreds gathered in Union Square last night to show solidarity for the victims of yesterday’s terrorist attack in Paris. A crowd of a few hundred…
Photos, Video: Ferguson Protesters Again Flooded the Streets (and Highways, and Bridges)
A day after protesters blocked the Manhattan and Triborough Bridges, demonstrators once again took to the streets — this time in far greater numbers —…