More than a dozen climate and affordable housing demonstrators wound up in handcuffs Monday morning after their street demonstration outside Governor Kathy Hochul’s Midtown office brought traffic to a standstill.
Drivers were left fuming during their Monday morning commute when traffic came to a screeching halt on 41st Street and 3rd Avenue as the activists lined the roadway and blocked traffic.
Chanting and waving signs, the group refused to permit anyone from passing in hopes of having their message heard loud and clear. The looming New York State budget deadline of April 1 made many climate and housing advocates make a personal and boisterous plea to Hochul, who was not in Midtown Monday morning, to repeal the 421-a tax break.
