One officer was hospitalized and police deployed pepper-spray during a Tuesday night protest over an Israeli real estate event at Park East Synagogue on the Upper East Side, where police enforced a broad perimeter in an early street-level test of the city’s evolving approach to demonstrations near religious institutions.
The protest targeted “The Great Israeli Real Estate Event 2026,” which was advertised online as coming to Manhattan on May 5 as part of a tour that also includes Flatbush and Queens. The Park East Synagogue hosted a similar event last November, which prompted a fierce demonstration from pro-Palestinians just steps away from the house of worship’s entrance — and spurred calls for protest buffer zones to keep protesters at bay in the future.
