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It’s Thursday.
Weather: Mostly sunny, with a high in the mid-80s.
Alternate-side parking: Suspended through Sunday.
Protesters again defied the curfew, and the police reacted quickly.
As a citywide curfew fell on New York on Wednesday for a third night, large numbers of protesters who had come out to rally against police brutality and systemic racism again flouted the requirement that they clear the streets by 8 p.m.
Crowds rallying in Brooklyn and Manhattan post-curfew were even larger than on Tuesday night. And the police were quicker to enforce the clampdown than they had been in previous days, moving swiftly to disperse demonstrators from rainy city streets and to arrest those who failed to clear out.
Terence A. Monahan, the Police Department’s chief of department, explained the aggressive approach while speaking to reporters in East Midtown area in Manhattan, where officers dispersed one group of protesters.
“When we have these big crowds, especially in this area, especially where we’ve had the looting, no more tolerance,” Chief Monahan said. “They have to be off the street. An 8 o’clock curfew — we gave them to 9 o’clock. And there was no indication that they were going to leave these streets.”
In Brooklyn, officers hemmed in demonstrators on Cadman Plaza after the group, which had started at Barclays Center, was prevented from crossing the Brooklyn Bridge.
[Get the latest news and updates on the protests in the New York region.]
Outside Gracie Mansion, hundreds said they were ‘just fed up.’
The earlier part of Wednesday evening had been marked mostly by peaceful gatherings of New Yorkers clamoring for change. At one, a large crowd assembled near Gracie Mansion, the mayor’s official residence on the Upper East Side in Manhattan.
Seva Galant, 19, was among those who addressed the group, which had been forced away from the mansion by police officers who had surrounded the area with metal barricades.
“I don’t want to die — life is good, I want to live,” Mr. Galant said. “Stop letting them kill us. I am not property — I am a man. Don’t let them kill me.”
Another young man had opened the vigil with brief remarks and quoted the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Protesters remained quiet throughout as the authorities, barely visible, stayed at a distance.
“We are all just fed up,” the man said, words that the crowd repeated.
But at around 7:30 p.m., the silence was broken when the crowd erupted in cheers, and soon afterward the gathering began to disperse.
[New York City’s curfew: What you need to know.]
Cuomo apologized after sharp criticism, a police official said.
As the governor of the state hardest hit by the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has earned praise across the country for his honest and at times heartfelt assessments. And when protests and looting erupted in New York and other cities after the death of George Floyd, a black man, while in police custody in Minneapolis, Mr. Cuomo offered a blunt critique.
“The N.Y.P.D. and the mayor did not do their job last night,” Mr. Cuomo said on Tuesday. “Look at the videos — it was a disgrace.”
But Mr. Cuomo has since called to apologize, said Terence A. Monahan, the chief of the department and the highest-ranked uniformed police officer.
“As a matter of fact, last night his office called and apologized to me,” Mr. Monahan said on Wednesday during an appearance on NBC. He added that Mr. Cuomo had called the police commissioner, Dermot F. Shea, “directly to apologize.”
Mr. Monahan said he welcomed Mr. Cuomo’s private remarks and hoped to hear them expressed more broadly. “I hope he would come out publicly and say that again today during his news conferences,” Mr. Monahan said.
[The virus closed his Bronx jewelry store. Then looters broke in.]
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What we’re reading
Officials in Mount Vernon said they were looking into allegations of police misconduct after a whistle-blower secretly recorded hours of conversations with officers. [Gothamist]
New York City’s 911 texting system went live on Tuesday. [The City]
Fine-dining chefs are starting home businesses. [Eater]
And finally: Celebrate Pride on film
It’s June, and that normally means it’s time to celebrate Pride Month. But with protests, a deadly pandemic and record unemployment convulsing the country, it feels as if there’s little reason to party.
That doesn’t mean Pride is over. Parades and events may have been canceled or postponed, but Pride Month festivities are moving online, with virtual drag shows, benefit concerts and many other events daily around the globe.
Movies are no substitute for a rainbow-drenched parade, but they can be entertaining and evocative ways to experience queer community and commune with the past.
Here are some recommendations:
“Gay USA”: It’s a fascinating, scrappy time capsule of queer life in post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS America. It chronicles the revelry and protest that greeted the modern gay liberation movement. “Gay USA” also features footage, taken by the activist Lilli Vincenz, of New York’s first gay pride parade, in 1970.
“Before Stonewall”: The movie is chockablock with grainy footage of early Pride parades. But even more fascinating are the moments that show how queer people forged a future before the official Pride and its parade.
“The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson”: Murder or suicide? That’s the heartbreaking question that fuels David France’s documentary about Marsha P. Johnson, the trailblazing transgender activist, performer and high-profile elder of the Stonewall uprising who was found dead in the Hudson River in 1992. To watch Johnson resiliently parade down Christopher Street during Pride, her beaming smile accentuated by her signature glossy lips, is to see a revolution in heels.
“Jeffrey”: This sharp-tongued romantic comedy is about a gay man whose plan to swear off sex grows complicated when he falls for an H.I.V.-positive muscle boy. The sunny, oh-so-’90s Pride scenes were shot in Central Park and on the streets of Manhattan.
It’s Thursday — watch something memorable.
Metropolitan Diary: The last car
Dear Diary:
As a middle school student in the 1970s, I rode the subway from Borough Hall in Brooklyn to East 86th Street in Manhattan every Saturday for my guitar lesson.
On the way I would read all of the ads, and I noticed that Reynolds Wrap had a series of cute ones with cartoons featuring animals.
I wanted one to hang in my room, so on my way home one Saturday I deliberately got on the last car of the train, which often had very few riders.
Sure enough, by the time the train reached Fulton Street, the car was empty. I got up, removed the cardboard poster and rolled it up, and sat back down.
At the next stop, a large teenage boy carrying a big wooden stick got on the car. He sat right next to me and asked me if I knew what time it was.
He then ordered me to give him my watch and any money I had. Regretfully, I did. He also said I had to get off at the next station, which by then, coincidentally, was my stop.
As I walked home shaken, there was one consolation: I still had the poster.
— Robert Mardiney
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