List of incidents of civil unrest in New York City

This list is about incidents of civil unrest, rioting, violent labor disputes, or minor insurrections or revolts in New York City.

Fighting during the Draft Riots of 1863

By date

Civil unrest in New York by date in ascending order, from earliest to latest.

  • 1926 – Harlem Riots of July 1926. between unemployed Jews and Puerto Ricans over jobs and housing. This riot started on One Hundred and Fifteenth Street (115th), between Lenox and Park Avenues. Reserves from four Police precincts struggled for nearly half an hour before they dispersed a crowd estimated at more than 2,000 and brought temporary peace to the neighborhood.
  • 1935 – Harlem riot, occurred March 19–20, sparked by rumors of the beating of a teenage shoplifter[13]
  • 1943 – Harlem riot, occurred August 1 and 2 following the nonfatal shooting of Robert Bandy by a white police officer[14]
1964 riots in Harlem
  • 1964 – Harlem riot, occurred July 16 through 22, following the fatal police shooting of a 15-year-old African American bystander[15]
  • 1967 - In a wave of race riots across the country called the Long, hot summer of 1967, riots and looting took place in Spanish Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant[16]
  • 1968 – New York City riot, occurred April 4 and 5 following the assassination of Martin Luther King[17]
  • 1968 – Columbia University protests, occurred April 23 in response to the Vietnam War and segregation[18]
  • 1969 – Stonewall riots, occurred June 28 through July 2 as a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBT) community in response to a police raid of the Stonewall Inn[19]
  • 1970 – Hard Hat Riot, occurred May 8 in a confrontation between construction workers and protesters of the Vietnam War, the Kent State shootings, and the U.S. invasion of Cambodia[20]
  • 1973 – Shooting of Clifford Glover, occurred on April 28 and led to several days of rioting in the South Jamaica neighborhood[21]
  • 1977 – New York City Blackout riot, occurred July 13 and 14, when widespread looting and arson followed a power outage[22]
  • 1988 – Tompkins Square Park riot, occurred August 6 and 7 as protesters against a city imposed curfew clashed with police[23]
  • 1991 – Crown Heights riot, occurred August 19 through 21 between black and Orthodox Jewish residents after two children of Guyanese immigrants were unintentionally struck by an automobile driven by an Orthodox Jew[24]
  • 1992 – Washington Heights riots, occurred July 4 through 7 following the fatal police shooting of Jose Garcia, a 23-year-old immigrant from the Dominican Republic. One man was killed after falling five stories off a building, 15 were injured and 11 were arrested.[25]
  • 1992 – Patrolmen's Benevolent Association Rally, occurred September 16. Carried out by thousands of off-duty police officers protesting mayor David N. Dinkin's proposal to create a civilian agency to investigate police misconduct. The 300 uniformed officers did little to stop the protesters from jumping barricades and causing extensive property damage. [26]
  • 2011 – Occupy Wall Street (Brooklyn Bridge protests). Demonstrators blocked the bridge and more than 700 people were arrested. Brooklyn, New York
  • 2013 – Flatbush Riots, on March 11, a candlelight vigil was held in response to the police shooting death of 16-year-old Kimani Gray, who allegedly pointed a .38 caliber pistol at the officers, though a later witness disputed Gray held a weapon and neither fingerprints nor DNA recovered from the weapon were a match for Gray.[27] The demonstration turned violent due to disappointment that no public officials had attended. At least one person was injured and a Rite Aid store was looted and damaged. There was one arrest on disorderly conduct.[28] Violence continued on March 12 resulting in two officers receiving minor injuries and 46 arrests, mostly for disorderly conduct.[29]
  • 2020 - George Floyd Protests. Protests began after officers in Minnesota killed George Floyd, an unarmed black man.

By number of deaths

The following is a list of civil unrest in New York by number of deaths in descending order from most to least deaths. In cases where the number of deaths is uncertain, the lowest estimate is used.

No deaths

The following is a list of civil unrest in New York where no deaths occurred listed in ascending order by year, from earliest to latest. The number of injured is listed in cases where the number is known.

See also

References

  1. "Slave Revolt of 1712", Mapping the African American Past, Columbia University
  2. "A List of White Persons taken into Custody on Account of the 1741 Conspiracy", Africans in America, PBS, accessed 9 Apr 2009
  3. Bess Lovejoy. "The Gory New York City Riot that Shaped American Medicine". 2014.
  4. Burrows, Edwin G. & Wallace, Mike (1999). Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-195-11634-8.
  5. "Serious Disturbance Last Night—Outrageous Conduct of the Native Americans—The Military Called out". Brooklyn Eagle. April 5, 1844.
  6. Asbury, Herbert. The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the New York Underworld. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. (pg. 97-102) ISBN 1-56025-275-8
  7. Headley, J.T. (1873). The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873, Including a Full and Complete Account of the Four Days' Draft Riot of 1863. New York: E.B. Treat. pp. 131–32. ISBN 9781605206547.
  8. Casualty counts vary by source. See *McPherson, James M. (1982), Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, p. 360, ISBN 978-0-394-52469-6.
  9. Gutman, Herbert G. "The Tompkins square 'Riot' in New York City on January 13, 1874: A re-examination of its causes and its aftermath". Labor History6:1 (1965) p. 45
  10. "New York City Race Riot, August 1900 - Newspaper and Current Periodical Reading Room (Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress)". www.loc.gov. Library of Congress. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
  11. "Women in Bread Riot At Doors of City Hall. With Babies in Arms They Cry for Cheaper Food. Dispersed by Mounted Police. Police Fail to Break Rush. Mrs. Harris Makes Speech. Marie Ganz Arrested" (PDF). New York Times. February 21, 1917. Retrieved 2015-02-13.
  12. "Straw Hat Smashing Orgy Bares Heads from Battery to Bronx". New York Tribune. September 16, 1922. Page 3, column 3.
  13. Appiah, Anthony; Henry Louis Gates (2005). Africana: Civil Rights; An A-To-Z Reference of the Movement That Changed America. Running Press. ISBN 0-7624-1958-X.
  14. Brandt, Nat (1996). Harlem at War: The Black Experience in WWII. Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-0462-4.
  15. Fred C. Shapiro and James W. Sullivan (1964). Race riots, New York, 1964. New York: Crowell.
  16. US News Staff. "109 U.S. Cities Faced Violence in 1967". US News. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  17. Clay Risen. "The Night New York Avoided a Riot". The Morning News.
  18. "Columbia’s Radicals of 1968 Hold a Bittersweet Reunion", NY Times, April 28, 2008
  19. National Park Service (2008). "Workforce Diversity: The Stonewall Inn, National Historic Landmark National Register Number: 99000562". US Department of Interior. Retrieved January 21, 2013.
  20. Bigart, "War Foes Here Attacked By Construction Workers", New York Times, May 9, 1970.
  21. "Clifford Glover: Instant Martyrdom". The Montreal Gazette. May 7, 1973. Retrieved September 15, 2010.
  22. Gottlieb, Martin; Glanz, James (August 15, 2003). "The Blackouts of '65 and '77 Became Defining Moments in the City's History". New York Times. Retrieved May 20, 2010.
  23. Wines, Michael (1988-08-10). "Class Struggle Erupts Along Avenue B". New York Times.
  24. "Beep Honor Peace Coalition: Crown Heights leaders reflect on 10-year milestone", New York Daily News, August 23, 2001.
  25. Dao, James (7 July 1992). "Angered by Police Killing, a Neighborhood Erupts". The New York Times. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
  26. McKinley, James (17 September 1992). "Officers Rally And Dinkins Is Their Target". The New York Times.
  27. "Family of Kimani Gray, teen shot and killed by NYPD cops who thought he had a gun, reaches $250G settlement". New York Daily News. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
  28. Shapiro, Julie. "Flatbush Riot: Vigil For Kimani Gray, 16-Year-Old Shot And Killed By NYPD Cops, Turns Violent (PHOTOS)". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  29. "Riots in Brooklyn after police fatally shoot teenager". Fox 8. 15 March 2013. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
  30. Asbury, Herbert (1928). The Gangs of New York. Alfred A. Knopf. p. 169.
  31. Cliff, Nigel (2007) The Shakespeare Riots: Revenge, Drama, and Death in Nineteenth-Century America, New York: Random House. ISBN 0-345-48694-3
  32. "Abolition Riots 1834-1836". History Box. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
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