That location is the north side of Tompkins Square Park, the site of some of most notorious (and ridiculous) anti-everything exhibitions in NYC. It seems every loser from fly-over country who finds his way to the Apple and then slips between the cracks into the cesspool of Marxism/Anarchy/Drugs that collects under the city ends up there sooner or later. It would be hard to find a more offensive but less effective bunch of fringe dwellers anywhere else in the country.
I know... I live in NYC, although not in Manhattan. I do, however, work in The People's Republic of Park Slope.
We need ProtestWarrior or something similar on that block before the showtimes.
LC