The Indypendent66%
Protesters Allege Hudson River Park Garage Still Allowing ICE Vehicles to Use Space 48%
By Amba Guerguerian44%
7/14/2026, 7:36:33 AM
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More than 70 demonstrators chanted “Hey neighbors!
ICE parks here!”
while rallying outside the Hudson River Park Trust’s Pier 40 parking garage Sunday, protesting the alleged continued presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicles in Pier 40 Parking after the expiration of ICE’s contract with the garage.
Protesters chanted and held signs while passersby walked past the rally, which was organized by Rise and Resist.
A smaller group of protesters took photos of suspected ICE vehicles in the garage before being escorted out by NYPD officers.
Two organizers delivered brief speeches to close out the event.
The Trust, a publicly-owned corporation overseen by a board of directors appointed by New York State and city officials, ended its latest five-year contract with ICE following public pressure and a direct condemnation from Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal.
Despite the contract expiring on June 30, anti-ICE organizers reported witnessing four suspected ICE vehicles — including one that was involved in an abduction in Corona, Queens last December — parking in the garage on July 7th, one week later.
While the other three suspected ICE vehicles have not been witnessed in abductions, Julie DeLaurier, an organizer with Rise and Resist, said that the group considers them highly suspect because their license plate numbers are directly adjacent to that of the vehicle involved in the December abduction.
A spokesperson for the Hudson River Park Trust said that “the Trust did not extend or renew the contract with ICE that ended on June 30.
As is usual for the end of a parking agreement, the spaces were vacated and the associated parking passes were deactivated.
The Trust is looking into the new assertions regarding parking.”
Protesters rallied outside ICE vehicles allegedly parked at a garage in Hudson River Park.
Photo: Nuriel Vera-Degraff
Before the small group of protesters went in for a “neighborhood inspection” of the garage, Jamie Bauer, another organizer with Rise and Resist, said that “We’ve been told by [the Trust] that all ICE vehicles are out of there, and we don’t know whether they’re misinformed, or they’re lying to us, or we’re misinformed.
And the only way to straighten it out is to go in and take a look around.”
Most of the roughly 10 “inspectors” took photos of suspected ICE vehicles through garage windows while two members of the group spoke with NYPD officers.
After several minutes, a team of six police officers told the inspectors that they were trespassing and forced them to leave the garage.
While walking out, DeLaurier noted that the garage was “open to the public,” prompting one police officer to retort that DeLaurier had “no business” in the garage.
The Rise and Resist organizer replied: “I do have business here.
You know what my business is?
Protecting my neighbors.
I’m protecting our neighbors from ICE.
What are you doing to protect our neighbors from ICE?”
DeLaurier added that “[the NYPD] are not our target here.
We hope that the NYPD will do the business of its sanctuary city and protect our neighbors from ICE.”
New York City’s sanctuary city status means that the NYPD cannot legally cooperate with ICE on civil immigration enforcement.
Still, officers routinely assist ICE operations indirectly, in the form of crowd control during abductions, fingerprint sharing, and joint operations with related federal agencies.
Despite being forced to leave the garage, the Rise and Resist inspectors seemed satisfied with the photos they had taken, and said that they would soon run the plates against their database of confirmed ICE vehicles.
The rally united a diverse group of protesters — young and old, transplants and longtime residents, experienced organizers and budding activists — with the common goal of protecting immigrants.
Sandy Radoff, a core member of Rise and Resist who grew up in North Dakota but has lived in New York City over 50 years, has been protesting ICE because of the role immigrants play in New York City.
“Immigrants make New York, immigrants are New York, and we can’t stand by and watch our neighbors being kidnapped and do nothing,” Radoff said.
Some protesters called on city officials to do more against ICE.
Radoff said that “I hope [Mayor Mamdani] could join us and make it difficult for ICE vehicles to park, and to continue to speak out on behalf of immigrants.”
The rally outside Pier 40 is part of a broader strategy of targeting garages where ICE vehicles may be parked to impede their operations.
“If we can make it really, really tough for ICE vehicles to find a parking spot in New York, maybe they will be able to do less and less of what they’re doing,” Radoff said.
In addition to making sure that the Trust no longer allows ICE vehicles to park at Pier 40, Bauer added that Rise and Resist also wants to “put every other garage in New York on notice that we won’t tolerate ICE vehicles in their garages, and that if they have ICE vehicles parking there … we will go, we will protest outside of them, and we will try to get them as much bad publicity as we can to hurt their business.”
Bauer and DeLaurier delivered two speeches at the end of the rally.
Bauer emphasized Rise and Resist’s broader garage-targeting efforts, while DeLaurier fired up the crowd.
“We are here to say no ICE here, no ICE anywhere in New York City,” DeLaurier said, concluding her speech.
“We were here, we saw, and guess what?
We’ll be back.”
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