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1874 Tompkins Square Park riot

Years: 1874 - 1874

The Tompkins Square Park riot occurs on January 13, 1874, at Tompkins Square Park in what is now the East Village and Alphabet City neighborhoods of Manhattan, New York City

The riot starts after the New York City Police Department clashes with a demonstration involving thousands of unemployed civilians.

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”

― Aldous Huxley, in Collected Essays (1959)