Good evening from Central Park South, where several thousands have taken the street, chanting “Fuck your curfew/suck my dick.” Follow @sydneyp1234 and @GwynneFitz for more updates from Day Six in NYC
MTA bus drivers gotta be the most consistently supportive group of non-protesters that I’ve seen
Protesters now outside Trump hotel, calling on NYPD to take a knee. “Another day,” says Chief Lee
Overhead, someone has paid to fill a billboard with messages, supposedly from @NYCGovCuomo, calling on New Yorkers to “help me restore calm.” order. The governor never sent those tweets, and the handle doesn’t exist 🤔🤔🤔 
So the Columbus Circle subway station is barricaded. Uber and Lyft have been ordered shut at 8. Citi Bike and Revel are already deactivated in the neighborhood. When curfew hits in 10 minutes, how the hell are people supposed to get home???
Protesters now on Upper West Side, moving up Broadway to supportive cheers/bangs from neighbors. Lots of cops circling, but no engagement so far
Ricky (left) is a doorman at West End near 81st. He was sobbing when I approached. “I’m speechless. It’s beautiful man... I’m only 26 I’ve never seen nothing like this.”
Elvis (right) thanked the protesters for being peaceful.
Elvis (right) thanked the protesters for being peaceful.
Red Bull stop at one of the only businesses I’ve seen open all night
Marches placing snacks and water bottles in a box next to a homeless woman asleep on 56th
Was in the process of tweeting about the Tupac dance party in front of 100 cops when they decided to charge. At least one reporter was tackled. Several others arrested for standing in streets. This was the definition of a peaceful protest. Now we’ll see
I cannot understand the point of this. An NYPD Chief told protesters they were okay marching after curfew if they stayed peaceful. They were. This was the scene before the ambush
I watched four of them beat and arrest a reporter with his press card out. There’s just no rhym or reason or to this
Another short clip from this one-sided confrontation. Young black man arrested for seemingly no reason. A cop slams his baton into an oven. Now we’re in Times Square reading off the names and ages of those killed by police. “Trayvon Martin. Fucking Seventeen.”
Members of this group just helped stop someone trying to break the window of a JCP (first attempt at destruction I’ve seen tonight). Crowd moved along quick, still chanting “peaceful protest”
Bottles fly on 6th Ave during another chase/beat down in Chelsea. Chief Vega (carrying a wooden table leg?) spraying mace and telling protesters they’re in violation of curfew. “We’re the peaceful ones,” shouts Travis Hill, a Brooklyn resident.
Hundreds of bike cops with heavy armor are here near Astor Place. Chaos and many arrests before and after this.
“I’m an essential worker, you nincompoops!”
On a train headed home. Good luck to everyone else still out there once the subway shuts down in 40 minutes
