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A protest is scheduled at the Independence Plaza garage
A group of neighbors is organizing a protest at the Independence Plaza garage on Harrison, where, they suspect, ICE is storing vehicles. The protest is scheduled for Monday, August 3, at 5:30p, on the corner of Harrison and Greenwich.
The garage is full of unmarked giant SUVs with no license plates — and it’s hard to guess at another use other than undercover enforcement. They learned more than I did when I did this post; according to the flyer, some federal agency has a contract with Icon for the garage. (The press reps for Independence Plaza sent me to Icon; Icon never replied.) The organizers told me that the use of the garage is under a federal contract.
The cars have been there at least since April, if Nosy Neighbor notes from folks are a good indicator. Icon leases and oversees all garages at Independence Plaza. In the case of this one, there is no Icon signage as there is for the garage across the street. (Also, I think the address there is actually 310 Greenwich, even though it is immediately west of the historic Harrison Street townhouses.)
The flyer notes that the CEO of Vornado Realty Trust, the largest commercial landlord in the city and also the majority owner of Independence Plaza, is Steven Roth. And Roth has been a devoted supporter of Donald Trump as an investor in his real estate projects and his presidential candidacy.
You can read more about that relationship from the Community First Development Coalition, the Tribeca non-profit founded to fight the tower at IPN.
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Why would you bring that to our neighborhood. The protest that is. That attracts those radical antifa groups to then set up shop and “occupy Tribeca”. We are better and smarter than that. This protest will only bring chaos and the undesirable to our neighborhoods. You care so much that vornado ceo is a maga billionaire then MOVE OUT! Chelsea folks coming here the rise and resist folks coming over. Have yall seen who they are and what they do once they plant themselves into a protest. Good luck to Tribeca. Shame for bringing that to our neighborhood. Yall should have started a petition and GO TO THEIR OFFICES!!! Anything happens I’m holding these group responsible.
You’re worried about “Antifa” coming to our neighborhood when we have actual fascists running the country. Get a grip and focus your attention on the true enemies who threaten your safety and your peace.
I also want to remind you that you live in Tribeca BECAUSE activists, weirdo artists, and other rabble-rousing “radicals” made it a nice place to live:
Loft laws driven by artists who pushed to change commercial zoning and improve living conditions for all.
Activists who successfully fought the LoMEX – which would ahve destroyed Lower Manhattan and decimated Tribeca’s solitude with asphalt and traffic nightmares – through protest, advocacy and raising a ruckus.
Rent strikes by IPN tenants; a 20,000+ strong antinuclear protest in BPC in 1978; radical progressive art exhibits/actions/performances on every street for decades.
I think you need to familiarize yourself with the radical spirit that has made this neighborhood a wonderful place, rather than defending those who spend their days driving around, kidnapping people off the street for deportation.
ON MY! Whatever will we do when people who don’t look like we do, who have less money than we do, who might even have different beliefs than we do, come to our neighborhood to protest injustice, intolerance and concentration camps in our own backyard. EEK! How will we survive having to share our sidewalks with “others”.
And perhaps you don’t realize this, but radical “undesirables” (like me!) live among you. they might be your neighbor. you might sit next to them at the coffee shop, or they might even teach your children.
The fact that you used the term “undesirables” unironically and as a way of describing people who protest is a bit of a tell for you. Wake up, because the people you don’t want to be here might just be the same people who protest when you are being rounded up.
Yep Mary and Elizabeth are the same bot I mean person. I believe in protest but not the new protest that are occurring which is filled with hate and violence. Continue with the propaganda and rhetoric that we will be kidnapped yada yada yada. You are probably the masked protesters that are afraid to show your face or the ones who were going to protest hobby lobby which was a compete fail. I’ll tell you this yall disturbed the peace for the neighbors with the occupy nonsense yall can go kick rocks with flip flops. Yall best antics is to insult, get violent, crash out – there is no speaking to yall undesirables. Did you ask the real residents of Tribeca that live in independence plaza if they are ok with this protest NO because like yall woke mindset impose your beliefs on to everyone. Learn the term facist before you use it. It seems like yall far left woke crowd are the real racists I mean facists. Now poof be gone Mary Elizabeth or the other poster you will create.
Yes, Sandra: everyone who doesn’t agree with you is a bot. I acknowledge that you and your cruel opinions (regretfully) are real so why can’t you do the same for me and Mary?
I’m a 42 year resident of Tribeca (IPN, where this travesty is occurring), was in the first class in the “new” PS 234. Lost my first tooth in Commodities and my second at Hamburger Harry’s. This neighborhood has been a huge part my life and I’m absolutely entitled to care about what happens here. Sorry you’re on the wrong side of history but don’t try to pretend like yours is the only voice that matters.
The way the entity titled “Sandra” uses the word “yall” (8 times in two posts) suggests that answering the posts is quite futile. There is a high likelihood that there is no “Sandra” walking among us. If “Sandra” actually lives and breathes there are other indications that responding to those posts is futile.
Dear Ms. Parks,
Why would you bring that to our daily commutes. The boycott that is. That attracts those radical northern agitators to then set up shop and “occupy Montgomery”. We are better and smarter than that.
This boycott will only bring chaos and the undesirable to our transit lines. You care so much that the bus company owners enforce segregation then MOVE UP NORTH! Out of town preachers coming here the NAACP folks coming over. Have yall seen who they are and what they do once they plant themselves into a protest.
Good luck to Montgomery. Shame for bringing that to our peaceful town. Yall should have started a petition and GO TO THE TRANSIT AUTHORITY’S OFFICES!!! Anything happens I’m holding these group responsible.
— Sandra, probably
First hobby lobby and now this? Really gross
What’s the big deal? ICE is deporting people who are here ILLEGALLY. I am not racist or facist or whatever cheap line you people like to throw around. No one has a right to live in this country. They all have the right to deport themselves or they can be taken out by a federal agency. I swear some of you people need to get a job. I’m with sandra!! Signed, a moderate former Democrat.
I’ll take Hobby lobby and a bunch of quiet Christians any day over a bunch of Antifa anarchists, likely funded by foreign entities and by the Soros family (feel free to fact check). If you don’t believe in cleaning up canal street and the other streets that resemble failed cities and countries, then you don’t belong here either. If you don’t believe in deporting criminals, then you should have your head examined. If you think we have an actual “fascist” running the country, you should go back to grade school civics and reteach yourself the lesson.
I just got back from two European cities that cease to exist in their historic form and won’t exist in any viable form unless major change happens. I don’t want us to be in the same position.