Reader report: A curfew arrest on 11th Street

A reader shares the below video clip from last night on 11th Street between Avenue B and Avenue C.

According to the reader, the woman was standing in front of her building some 45 minutes after the 8 p.m. curfew went into effect. Three police cars were involved in her arrest. It's not known what, if anything, she did aside from being out past the curfew. Per the reader: "As you can hear, the block is not having it."

Starbucks on Astor Place hit again; arrests reported nearby

For the second night, people smashed the windows at the Starbucks on Astor Place... here's a look at the space this morning...



The Foot Locker around the corner on Broadway was reportedly looted, which explains the empty Nike boxes spotted here...



People also broke windows at nearby Astor Place businesses, including the FedEx store, Sweetgreen and Blue Bottle Coffee.

Overall, ABC 7 described it as "a quiet night in New York City, with looters largely absent."

The NYPD used several tactics overnight to crack down on the looting that has plagued the city in recent nights, including arresting non-protesting groups of people after the 8 p.m. curfew went into effect.

If police approached those groups, officials say, many tried to run. Police say they found items like bats and hammers on those they arrested.

The NYPD is reporting 280 arrests.

And some of those arrests occurred on Astor Place and St. Mark's Place, as the NYPD rounded up protestors, and people using the protests as cover, out past the designated 8 p.m. curfew, which is in effect through Sunday. Journalist Bucky Turco reported what he saw via Twitter...

Astor Place Starbucks pic.twitter.com/sAgYxth0nS

— Bucky Turco (@buckyturco) June 3, 2020

Police move in to make arrests on Bowery/St. Mark’s-Astor Place, beat protester with their night sticks. pic.twitter.com/8rilIYV31p

— Bucky Turco (@buckyturco) June 3, 2020

During a short walk through the neighborhood this morning, we didn't spot any signs of break ins or damaged storefronts ... outside of the AP Starbucks...

Scenes from the start of last night's peaceful protest on Avenue D

Hundreds of people gathered last evening on Avenue D and Ninth Street — one of the many peaceful gatherings citywide against police brutality sparked by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

The starting point for this protest is also the spot where several NYPD officers were involved in violent arrests on May 2.

EVG contributor Stacie Joy was at the start of the protest, which moved along Ninth Street to Avenue C and eventually to East Houston... the final stop was the Barclay's Center...

A break-in at Ben & Jerry's on St. Mark's Place

More reader reports are coming in about East Village businesses broken into last night... Ben & Jerry's on St. Mark's Place between Second Avenue and Third Avenue took a hit... EVG reader Lola Saénz took these photos...





An ATM on the block was also cleaned out...



There are more reader reports of break-ins, including the Domino's on 14th Street and the Target on 14th and A.

2 break-ins on Avenue A: Village Square Pizza, Tompkins Finest Deli & Grill

Two businesses on Avenue A between Ninth Street and 10th Street were burglarized last night.

The front door was smashed in at Village Square Pizza... not known at the moment what was taken...



A few storefronts away, Tompkins Finest Deli & Grill was damaged during last night's break-in...





An EVG reader sent this message just before midnight:

Called 911 23 minutes ago about a group of people breaking into bodega on Avenue A ... they still haven’t come. The looters filled up a car full of shit, threw the register into the street and bragged about where they are heading next.

And in a subsequent message: "No cops have come. And they’re long gone."

Given the timing of the break-in, this occurred roughly 30 minutes after the start of last night's 11 o'clock curfew.

These are the latest break-ins in the East Village. A group of seven men burglarized more than a dozen businesses late Sunday night.

Noting another break-in, this time at Rue-B

In what was likely an unfortunate common occurrence today... Michael Camacho, the owner of Rue B on Avenue B between 11th Street and 12th Street, filled out a burglary report with the 9th Precinct.



The same group who broke in at C&B Cafe, Alphabet City Beer Co. and Khiladi, among others late last night, busted their way inside the jazz club, which has been closed during the COVID-19 crisis.

The thieves used a crowbar on the cash register, but it was empty. Nothing else was taken from the bar.

The break-in at Khiladi on Avenue B

Khiladi, which serves South Indian cuisine on Avenue B at 11th Street, was another victim of the late-night break-ins throughout the neighborhood along with C&B Cafe and Alphabet City Beer Co., among many others.

Owner Sruthi Chowdary, who has been helping feed area families as part of the Neighborhood Food Swap during the COVID-19 crisis, said that she cried this morning as she surveyed the damage to her restaurant. The thieves made off an undisclosed amount of cash.



As she wrote in an Instagram post:

"Tears rolled down my eyes thinking how much more should I endure. The harder part for me was I didn’t know how to feel. I definitely wasn’t angry — I still feel there is justice to be served ... This happened to so many businesses in the neighborhood and we all don’t know how to feel about it. I'm scared and uncertain like many but I will not lose hope!"

She showed EVG contributor Stacie Joy, who took the photos for this post, the security footage from the break-in...





... those involved are the same as the seven-person team who broke into Alphabet City Beer Co. and many of the other neighborhood businesses, per security footage that Stacie has seen.

Protests turn chaotic last night south of Union Square with reports of trash fires on 3rd Avenue

[Photo by Ed Yoo]

Another day of peaceful George Floyd protests around the city turned destructive late last night. There were reports of damage to businesses and police vehicles south of Union Square as well as trash fires along Third Avenue.

Footage via social media shows several people jumping on an NYPD van and breaking its windows on Fourth Avenue at 13th Street...

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A post shared by Adam Lamb (@chirolamb) on May 31, 2020 at 8:43pm PDT

Ed Yoo shared these photos from last night where police and the protestors faced off on Fourth Avenue at 12th Street around 11:30 ...



The group continued east to Third Avenue...



Police reportedly charged the protestors after someone threw a bottle...



As the group scattered south on Third Avenue, several people set trash fires from 12th Street to Ninth Street... the largest being a stack of cardboard on the curb for recycling outside the H Mart ...


[Screengrab via @chirolamb]

In addition, several stores had their storefronts damaged, such as the CVS on 14th Street and Fifth Avenue...



...with reports of looting, mostly in Soho.

At a Hall press conference yesterday, Mayor de Blasio addressed the violent element of the otherwise peaceful protests. Per CBS New York:

The mayor said the protests have been infiltrated by some outside agitators who are determined to cause violence.

“The X Factor here of a different kind. A small set of men, we’ll call them not just protesters, but people who came to do violence in a systematic organized fashion. That is a different reality we need to grapple with,” de Blasio said.

The mayor said the NYPD would quickly release evidence showing that some people were calling for violent demonstrations.

Yesterday marked the fourth day of protests in NYC and other cities nationwide against racist police violence in the aftermath of George Floyd's death Monday in Minneapolis.

Updated 8:30 a.m.

Photos from Riian Kant-McCormick showing the broken windows at the AMC Village 7 on Third Avenue and 11th Street...





... and outside the Post Office on 11th Street and Fourth Avenue...

Weekend parting shots

Thank you to East Village-based photographer Kyle de Vre for sharing these photos from yesterday, capturing moments from the protest along First Avenue and Second Avenue...

Sunday morning around Union Square

Yesterday's peaceful protests turned chaotic in the late-night hours as demonstrators set fire to nearly a dozen NYPD vehicles around Union Square... it marked the end of the third day of protests against racist police violence in the aftermath of George Floyd's death Monday in Minneapolis.

EVG contributor Stacie Joy surveyed the scene this morning around Union Square, including on University Place where many of the police vehicles — specifically the Homeless Outreach vans — had been parked.