WATCH LIVE: 'Cuomoville' Activists Enter Third Day Camped Outside Governor's NYC Office

MURRAY HILL, NY — The "Cuomoville" campout at the foot of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office building at 633 Third Ave. entered its third day of protests Friday.

Two days earlier, on Wednesday afternoon, tenants rights activists set up the semipermanent protest camp on the busy sidewalk outside the governor's tower — a symbolic pop-up village filled with NYC renters displaced or otherwise impacted by what they see as Cuomo's pro-developer approach to regulating city housing law.

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The curbside sleepover was scheduled to last for at least three nights.

Here's what's on the schedule, according to the Facebook event:

Wednesday, June 14

• 4:30 p.m. — MEET UP AT New York Public Library (42nd & 5th Ave); march to Cuomo's office
• 6 p.m. — Kick Off Rally

Thursday, June 15

• 7 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. — wake up, breakfast.
• 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. — Flyer people going in to work.
• 10 a.m. — Rent Laws Rally
• 12 p.m. — Action: Homelessness
• 1:30 p.m. — TEACH OUT (RENT LAWS)
• 6:30 p.m. — In Solidarity with Rise & Resist: The IDC is Failing NY

Friday, June 16

• 7 a.m. t0 7:30 a.m. — wake up, breakfast.
• 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. — Flyer people going in to work.
• 10 a.m. — Action: Public Housing
• 12 p.m. — March: Corporate landlords benefiting from Quid Pro Cuomo: Jared Kushner/Blackstone
• 2 p.m. — TEACH OUT (NYCHA, NO CUTS)
• 6:30 p.m. — Rent Party

Saturday, June 17

• 7 a.m. — Wake up, break camp

One of the participants, 71-year-old Bed-Stuy resident Skipp Roseboro, explained that by sleeping in a makeshift village named after the governor, homeless person-style, protesters are capturing "the essence of what he's done for the city."

"It's kind of a metaphor for the governor's housing policy," Roseboro said. "Where we will be is actually a Cuomoville."

This is the fourth Cuomoville camp set up since the Occupy Wall Street movement began in 2011, and only the second in NYC. (The other two were staged on the lawn of the New York State Capitol Building in Albany.) The last time Cuomoville was stationed in Manhattan, in summer 2015, organizers estimated around 50 people slept over each night. They were then joined by hundreds more protesters in the daytime.

Read more on protesters' specific grips — and their demands for the governor — here.

Below is a live video feed from Day Three of the 2017 event, where activists marched in protest of "landlords benefiting from Quid Pro Cuomo."

In particular, they planned to call out NYC mega-developer and Trump step-son Jared Kushner, as well as the Blackstone Group, an investment firm currently financing one of Kushner's big real-estate projects in Brooklyn Heights.

And here's video we recorded live on Day One of the protest:

Photos and video by Ali Kucukgocmen/Patch