With 12 marching bands, 26 floats, and musicians like Rita Ora, Diana Ross and John Legend performing, this year, the 92nd Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, was witnessed by nearly 3.5 million people in Manhattan. The parade began in the year 1924 and has been a holiday tradition ever since.
May Meng, a student of the Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism program, photographed this year’s parade.
ICP PJ students continue their coverage of the protests in NYC as tens of thousands of New Yorkers gathered at various points in Manhattan and Brooklyn at the weekend as part of the Millions March. Demonstrators were protesting the recent grand jury decisions not to indict the police officers involved in the killing of Eric Garner and Michael Brown.
For up to date coverage by students and almuni of these events check out #ICPresponse on Instagram.
Fabiana Sala
Fabiana Sala
Fabiana Sala
Demonstrators fill Washington Square Park in Lower Manhattan on December 13, 2014 as part of the Millions March NYC to protest against police brutality on the part of the NYPD/Sophia Guida
NYPD officers stand by on December 13, 2014 as protestors march through Lower Manhattan in the Millions March NYC against racially-motivated police brutality/Sophia Guida
Priyanka Chharia
Priyanka Chharia
Protestors march from Washington Square Park to One Police Plaza in Manhattan on December 13, 2014 as part of the Millions March NYC against racially-motivated police brutality/Sophia Guida
Priyanka Chharia
Priyanka Chharia
Shih-Chieh Wei
Shih-Chieh Wei
Shih-Chieh Wei
Shih-Chieh Wei
Shih-Chieh Wei
Shih-Chieh Wei
Shih-Chieh Wei
Shih-Chieh Wei
Shih-Chieh Wei
Andrea Cattaneo
Andrea Cattaneo
Andrea Cattaneo
Andrea Cattaneo
Andrea Cattaneo
Andrea Cattaneo
Andrea Cattaneo
Andrea Cattaneo
Andrea Cattaneo
Andrea Cattaneo
Thousands of New Yorkers gathered at various points in Manhattan and Brooklyn on Wednesday and Thursday December 3rd and 4th to march in protest against a December 3rd Staten Island Grand Jury decision not to indict an NYPD police officer for the death of unarmed Eric Garner. During Garner’s arrest in July 2014, NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo was captured on film holding Garner in a chokehold after he repeatedly said: “I can’t breathe”. These words have now become the mantra of protestors across the country following a similar grand jury decision in Ferguson last month not to indict the police offer who killed unarmed teenager Michael Brown.
For continuous coverage of the protests by ICP students, staff and alumni, follow #ICPresponse
One week before the decision in the Eric Garner case, demonstrators gather in Harlem to protest the decision to indict the police officer in the Michael Brown case.
Miguel Winograd
December 3rd, 2014. Protests erupt in various parts of the city following a Staten Island grand jury decision not to indict an NYPD police officer for the death of Eric Garner who died after being held in a chokehold by the officer during his arrest. A ‘die-in’ took place at Grand Central station, and hundreds marched up sixth avenue and headed west, ultimately blocking the west side highway into the early hours of the morning.
Protestors gather outside Grand Central Station on 43rd street/Gareth Smit
Griselda San Martin
Griselda San Martin
Demonstrators form a line to block traffic near Columbus Circle/Gareth Smit
Gareth Smit
Gareth Smit
NYPD police officers are surrounded by demonstrators blocking traffic on the West End Highway/Gareth Smit
NYPD officers arrest demonstrators blocking the West End Highway/Gareth Smit
December 4th, 2014. Thousands of New Yorkers meet at various locations in Manhattan and Brooklyn to march in protest against the decision not to indict Daniel Pantaleo, the NYPD officer accused of using a chokehold during his arrest that would eventually result in Eric Garner’s death. In Brooklyn, protestors blocked both the Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges. By 6:30pm, a huge crowd had gathered at Foley Square and headed northwards toward Times Square, once again blocking the west end highway.
Elena Hermosa
Soumita Bhattacharya
Soumita Bhattacharya
Soumita Bhattacharya
Thousands gather at Foley Square/Gareth Smit
Elena Hermosa
Khadim Baluch
Griselda San Martin
Khadim Baluch
Andrea Cattaneo
Andrea Cattaneo
Andrea Cattaneo
Andrea Cattaneo
Andrea Cattaneo
Andrea Cattaneo
Andrea Cattaneo
Sophia Guida
Yolande Daeninck
Khadim Baluch
Passengers sit and wait in a stationary bus on Broadway avenue as protestors bring traffic to a standstill/Gareth Smit
Protestors conduct a “die-in” by lying down on the road blocking a major intersection on Canal street/Gareth Smit
A gesture that has become an icon of the protests in Furgeson, a woman in New York raises her hands in a demonstration of surrender/Khadim Baluch
Khadim Baluch
Protestors throw trash in the middle of the street, throw bottles, and knock over trash cans after the police used the LRAD system to scatter the crowds. 2:41AM, December 4th, 2014/Moth Dust
A woman yells and stands in front of a moped after a policeman tries to push forward and drive through part of the Eric Garner protest. NYC, December 4th, 2014/Moth Dust
Two protestors yell “I can’t breathe” to a police officer after being prevented from marching onwards. December 4th, 2014/Moth Dust
A protestor beckons fellow demonstrators blocking traffic on the West Side Highway/Gareth Smit
A police officer pushes protestors out of the street on the West Side Highway. December 4th, 2014/Moth Dust
Clutching a baton, an NYPD police officer is ridiculed by protestors on the West Side Highway/Gareth Smit
A demonstrator is arrested by NYPD officers on the West Side Highway/Gareth Smit
Student protestors gather on the West Side Highway, yelling “Hands up, don’t shoot.” December 4th, 2014/Moth Dust
A man reads the bible to NYPD officers on the West Side Highway/Gareth Smit
An unidentified man threatened to jump off a building overlooking the Madame Tussauds wax museum near Times Square yesterday afternoon, but was talked down by the NYPD. 42nd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues was closed by emergency responders while hundreds of onlookers gathered. After a negotiation process that lasted about three hours, the man was taken into custody unharmed for further physiological evaluation.
Pictures by Gareth Smit
An unidentified man threatens to jump off a building, but was talked down by the NYPD / Gareth Smit
Onlookers gather on 7th avenue as an unidentified man threatens to jump off a building.The man was talked down by the NYPD / Gareth Smit
Onlookers gather on 7th avenue as an unidentified man threatens to jump off a building. The man was talked down by the NYPD / Gareth Smit
NYPD officers stand in front of a giant inflated cushion deployed when an unidentified man threatened to jump off a building near Times Square / Gareth Smit
An unidentified man who threatened to jump off a building was taken into custody by the NYPD / Gareth Smit
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