Protests Planned For Washington Square Park, Gracie Mansion

MANHATTAN, NY — The seventh day of protests against police brutality in New York City will include two in Manhattan.

Protesters will descend on Washington Square Park at 4 p.m. and gather outside Mayor Bill de Blasio's home at Gracie Mansion at 7 p.m., just an hour before the 8 p.m. curfew, according to flyers online.

Both locations have been a popular spot for the protests, which have gripped New York City and the nation since George Floyd died when a police officer — who has since been charged with murder— knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.

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Demonstrators most recently held a vigil outside Gracie Mansion and marched from a protest in Foley Square to Washington Square Park on Tuesday.

The Manhattan protests on Wednesday will be joined by several others in the outer boroughs, including at 75-35 31st Avenue in Queens at 2 p.m., 6823 Third Ave. in Brooklyn at 4 p.m., Hunts Point Subway Plaza in the Bronx at 4:30 p.m. and a vigil at Queensbridge Plaza at 7 p.m., according to posts online.

Wednesday will mark the second day protesters gather with a new 8 p.m. curfew, which will last each night until June 7.

The curfew, which closed down traffic below 96th Street in Manhattan, seemed to quell at least some of the violent looting and property damage that it was meant to stop.

But, it also led to chaos in some parts of the city, including a group of protesters on the Manhattan Bridge, who hit a wall of hundreds of NYPD officers blocking entrance. The tense standoff, which effectively trapped the protesters on the bridge with police at their backs in Brooklyn, lasted until after 11 p.m.