New York

Content Preview

Newsday/Optimum Online® subscribers click here for full access
Not a Newsday or Optimum Online® subscriber? Click here

Hundreds protest chimpanzee cartoon

About 500 people protested in front of the midtown offices of the New York Post Thursday and called for a boycott of the city paper over its controversial editorial cartoon that marchers said portrays President Barack Obama as a chimpanzee.

"Go to your newsstand and say, 'Do not sell it in our community,' " said the Rev. Al Sharpton, of the National Action Network, who led protesters and...

newsday.com is now available at no charge to Newsday and Optimum Online® subscribers. To continue reading, please log in or register now.

  • Already
    registered on
    newsday.com?
    log in
  • Already a subscriber
    to Newsday or
    Optimum Online®?
    get access
  • Not a Newsday
    or Optimum Online®
    subscriber?
    click here

Top stories