\u201cNo Kings\u201d protest<\/a> held in New York City, with rallies, marches and bridge actions planned across the city ahead of a larger citywide mass march later in the day. Organizers say the demonstrations \u2014 which previously drew tens of thousands of participants in New York each time \u2014 are a response to what they describe as the continued consolidation of executive power, the weaponization of ICE and other federal agencies, and deep cuts to essential services, including Social Security, Medicaid, and public education.<\/p>\nThe most recent No Kings protest in Manhattan last October drew upwards of 100,000 people, according to police.\n<\/p>\n
Jay W. Walker, a lead organizer with Hands Off NYC, told amNewYork this weekend\u2019s action comes after several developments that have raised the stakes since the last protest, and said the demonstrations are meant to answer what he called \u201cunchecked autocratic power\u201d by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n
No Kings protest becomes more local
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Upwards of 100,000 New Yorkers participated in the \u201cNo Kings\u201d protest through the streets of Manhattan in October 2025, speaking out against the Trump administration.Photo by Dean Moses<\/p>\n
Walker said the citywide format is intentional. Rather than concentrate everyone in one part of Manhattan, he said organizers want the protests to take shape in neighborhoods across the city because the issues driving the demonstrations are being felt in local communities as well as at the national level. He said organizers want Saturday to be seen not just as one large coordinated march, but as a series of actions generated in different neighborhoods.<\/p>\n
The day\u2019s events are scheduled to begin in upper Manhattan and Queens, with a Washington Heights bridge action planned from 10 a.m. to noon at the Denny Farrell Pedestrian Bridge and the \u201cQueens Says No Kings\u201d march running from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at MacDonald Park in Forest Hills.<\/p>\n
By midday, demonstrations will spread to other parts of the city, including an East Bronx rally from noon to 2 p.m. at Bronx Victory Memorial in Throggs Neck; an Upper West Side action from noon to 2 p.m.; and a Fresh Meadows gathering from noon to 2 p.m. in northeast Queens.<\/p>\n
In the afternoon, protesters are expected to gather in Brooklyn for a Park Slope march from 1 to 3 p.m., assembling on Garfield Place and marching along Prospect Park West, while another Queens action is set for 1 to 2 p.m. at the Rockaway Beach Amphitheater on Beach 94th Street.<\/p>\n
Staten Island organizers are also planning a demonstration from 1 to 3 p.m., and a West Harlem\/Morningside Heights event is scheduled from 1:30 to 3 p.m.\n<\/p>\n
The Bronx will host a second action from 2 to 4 p.m. at Lou Gehrig Plaza, while a larger No Kings NYC Mass March is also slated for 2 to 4 p.m., capping a day of demonstrations expected to draw protesters from across the five boroughs.<\/p>\n
A pointed protest on Staten Island<\/p>\n
On Staten Island, organizers say the local protest is meant to reach residents who support the broader movement but are unlikely to travel into Manhattan for a large march.<\/p>\n
Laura McCarthy, a founding member of the Staten Island Action Coalition, said many politically engaged Staten Islanders do not typically go into Manhattan for demonstrations, so organizers decided to bring the protest to them. She said previous \u201cNo Kings\u201d protests on Staten Island have each drawn larger crowds than the last.<\/p>\n
McCarthy said organizers on Staten Island also expect strong turnout because, in her view, opposition has deepened as Trump\u2019s conduct has become \u201cmore pronounced,\u201d and as concerns have grown over war, social services, Medicaid, Social Security, food insecurity and ICE activity in the borough.<\/p>\n
She said the Staten Island protest is also tied directly to Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, the city\u2019s only Republican member of Congress. Saturday\u2019s protest is expected to take place outside Malliotakis\u2019 office in the borough.<\/p>\n
McCarthy said part of the program will be aimed at the lawmaker, and that organizers plan to collect letters from attendees to be delivered to her office. She said the action is intended to register local dissatisfaction not only with Trump, but with Staten Island\u2019s representative in Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tens of thousands of New Yorkers hit the streets of Manhattan on a rain-soaked Saturday for the \u201cNo…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":306384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[113716,5229,286878,286879,286880,163308,286881,286882,286883,286884,99845,405,403,267459,5226,5225,44970,158048,5228,5227,24672,286885,25137,286886,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-682825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-no-kings","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-anti-trump-demonstrations","11":"tag-authoritarianism-concerns","12":"tag-borough-wide-rallies","13":"tag-community-organizing","14":"tag-defending-democracy","15":"tag-grassroots-activism","16":"tag-ice-policy-criticism","17":"tag-mass-march-nyc","18":"tag-medicaid-funding","19":"tag-new-york","20":"tag-new-york-city","21":"tag-new-york-city-protests","22":"tag-newyork","23":"tag-newyorkcity","24":"tag-nicole-malliotakis","25":"tag-no-kings-protest","26":"tag-ny","27":"tag-nyc","28":"tag-pm-newsletter","29":"tag-public-education-funding","30":"tag-social-security-cuts","31":"tag-staten-island-protest","32":"tag-united-states","33":"tag-united-states-of-america","34":"tag-unitedstates","35":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","36":"tag-us","37":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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