Another Rally Planned Outside Chuck Schumer's Park Slope Home

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — Looks like the moneyed residents of Prospect Park West up near Grand Army Plaza may have to get used to a semi-regular angry mob shouting angry stuff at Sen. Chuck Schumer from the sidewalk beneath his apartment building in 2017.

Just as President-elect Donald Trump's home on Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan has become a go-to rallying spot for activists hoping to get his attention, Trump's soon-to-be opposition leader in the U.S. Senate has seen his home on a quiet street in Park Slope — rather than, say, his offices in Manhattan or Albany — gain popularity in the new year as the best location from which to launch public appeals to the senator.

A line of protesters held up letter signs that spelled "SCHUMER BLOCK TRUMP" outside the pricey condo tower at 9 Prospect West on Sunday.

The group sang in chorus: "The lying Cheetoh swine, dear Trump, is not a friend of mine/ You give an inch and we're all f*ucked/ Defy the Cheetoh swine."

The Sunday protest wasn't so much anti-Schumer as it was anti-Trump — although protesters warned Schumer that if he didn't launch an all-out blockade of the Trump Administration's agenda, he'd be next on their sh*t list.

"We think this administration is disgusting," demonstration organizer Tim Murphy told Patch before the rally. "We don't think it's legitimate. We think it's extreme, it's unstable, it has courted hate crimes. And we want to see the Democratic leadership obstruct them 100 percent."

And just one day later, at 7 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 9, amid more below-freezing temps, a second rally with a similar message for Schumer — block Trump, or lose our support — is planned outside the senator's home.

Monday rally's will serve as the local event for the nationwide Day Against Denial, a project of the environmental organization 350.org.

Protesters plan to "stand against the Trump appointments, both the climate-change deniers, and all of the appointments who want to turn back the clock on economic justice, women and immigrant rights," according to the Facebook event page — which showed more than 200 attendees and hundreds more "interested" parties as of Monday afternoon.

In Brooklyn in particular, activists will "demand that Senator Schumer truly lead in his pivotal role as Senate Minority Leader, to ensure that members of his party ask hard questions of Trump’s nominees during their committee hearings and to do everything possible to ensure that Trump’s appointments are not confirmed."

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