QUEENS: Environmental Groups Printing Plant Protest Impacts The Delivery Of Newspapers

COLLEGE POINT (QUEENS) NYC: Protesters blockaded a printing facility owned by the New York Times and used by other publications. 

The College Point plant also prints The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, Long Island's Newsday and the USA Today. 

Activists from the climate change protest group Extinction Rebellion claimed responsibility for the action, which they said in a statement was intended to draw attention to the failure of media corporations “to cover the climate emergency with the frequency it deserves.”

The New York Police Department reported that 15 people (seven men and eight women) were arrested and 17 more given criminal summonses for disorderly conduct.

They were taken to the 109th Precinct for processing and were then released.