NY Daily
News
Anti-ICE
protestors take over lobby of Manhattan Hilton hotel, 66 arrested
Kerry
Burke, Thomas Tracy, Colin Mixson, New York Daily News
Wed,
January 28, 2026 at 3:21 AM GMT+1
More than
five dozen people were arrested Tuesday after anti-Immigration and Customs
Enforcement protesters occupied the lobby of a lower Manhattan hotel where they
believed federal agents were being housed as they conduct local operations,
police said.
The
protesters entered the lobby of the Hilton Garden Inn Tribeca on Sixth Ave.
near West Broadway around 6 p.m. and, for more than 45 minutes, railed against
Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdowns in Minneapolis, where agents
shot to death two U.S. citizens this month, and other communities.
Videos
posted to social media show dozens of protesters inside the hotel lobby holding
signs that read “Hilton stop housing ICE” and “Hilton don’t let ICE stay” as
hundreds more outside chanted “NYPD go to hell, it is right to rebel” outside
the building.
Cops said
that approximately 300 protestors were outside the hotel, with another 100
gathered inside the lobby.
An
activist with Sunrise Movement NYC said protest organizers zeroed in on the
Tribeca Hilton after receiving multiple tips the hotel was hosting ICE agents.
“We were
following the lead of our friends in Minneapolis who have been dealing with
Hiltons there housing ICE agents,” said 25-year-old Carly Shaffer. “They’ve
been leading a pretty aggressive campaign to get Hilton to stop housing ICE
agents. If these agents don’t have a place to sleep, they can’t be in our
neighborhoods terrorizing them.”
A law
enforcement source, however, told the Daily News Wednesday that no ICE agents
were staying at the hotel Tuesday night.
Police
began making arrests after protesters refused multiple orders to leave the
lobby.
Cops said
66 protesters were taken into custody. All but two were given summonses for
criminal trespass and disorderly conduct.
The
remaining two protesters were charged with obstruction of government
administration, for trying to prevent cops from pulling protesters out of the
lobby. They were given desk appearance tickets ordering them to court to answer
the charges in a few weeks, an NYPD spokeswoman said.
Nicole
Parcher was demonstrating inside the lobby but avoided arrest by following the
officers’ directions when they told protestors to leave the hotel.
“These
very ICE officers that are staying comfortably in their rooms are kidnapping
people, ripping apart families,” said Parcher.
Ethan
Young joined the protest outside the hotel.
“It is
unacceptable for citizens to be gunned down protecting their neighbors and this
has to stop,” said Young. “We are committed to a future in which people are
treated equally.”
The Sixth
Ave. Hilton locked its doors in the wake of Tuesday’s protest, with only guests
and staff allowed in or out.
“This has
got to stop,” said a Hilton executive, who spoke to a Daily News reporter at
the scene and refused to provide his name. “We can’t have a hundred people
surrounding and going into a hotel. There’s going to be a lot of pain going
forward. This is an innocent hotel.”
When
pressed regarding whether the hotel was hosting federal Immigration and Customs
Enforcement agents, the executive said, “I can’t tell you that.”
A man
staying with his wife and 4-year-old daughter called the protestors “scumbags.”
A City
Hall spokesperson said Mayor Mamdani praised both the NYPD — and the
protestors.
“Mayor
Mamdani commends the protestors who exercised their right to protest against
ICE today,” said Dora Pekec.
“As he
has said, ICE is a rogue agency that has repeatedly carried out cruel, inhumane
and lawless raids and arrests of American citizens. The mayor is also pleased
with the NYPD’s response to the protest and that today’s demonstration
concluded without violence.”
With
Rocco Parascandola and Thomas Tracy
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