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“Signs” of the Times: Images from NY’s Anti-Trump Protest

Like thousands of other Americans, I took to the streets on Saturday to add my voice in protest to the growing horror of the Trump 2.0 administration.  The intermittent rain showers and temperatures that hovered in the 40s, didn’t deter thousands of demonstrators.  We marched shoulder to shoulder down Manhattan’s famed Fifth Ave from 42nd Street to 23rd Street.  It was a non-violent festival of disdain and revulsion for the current Oval Office occupant, his cabinet and the Republican party. There was  therapeutic value protesting in public while the eyes of the world are upon us.  Here are just some of the images I took that captured the emotions of the day.

Hands off demonstration
The banner of the day stretched from one side of Fifth Ave. to the other.
Crowded subway station on 42nd street jammed with demonstrators at the start of the march.
“Hands Off” demonstrators on Fifth Ave. looking south toward the Flatiron Building..
And the award to the most striking outfit of the day goes to…
This one-word poster summed up the mood of the “Hands Off” demonstrators.
This “bird” has a good point. Something else for America to worry about.
Protestors crossed a blocked-off 34th Street in front of the Empire State Building.
Let’s hope he’s right.
A bundled up Howard Polskin took a moment during the march to snap this selfie on Fifth Ave. .
These red signs stood out quite dramatically and matched the banners of the NY Public Library.
It was quite a scrum near the public library on 40th Street making it very hard to move.
The rain was coming down hard as the crowd gathered on the steps of the NY Public Library.
Good advice! (Not that he’ll follow it.)
The march started on 42nd Street in front of the W.R. Grace building across from Bryant Park.
Protestors jammed into Bryant Park at the start of the demonstration.
The march ended at Madison Square Park at the Flatiron Building.