Museum of the City of New York

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Charity Cases

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Partygoers at this fall’s Museum of the City of New York benefit were in for quite a shock at the event’s entrance. Posted outside the upper Fifth Avenue mansion were 25 protesters from a group called Adalah-NY denouncing the alleged human rights abuses and support of West Bank settlement construction by Israeli Lev Leviev, the founder of cosponsor Leviev diamond company.

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Women's Wear Daily

Annual Cocktails With the Museum of the City of New York

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Guests at the Museum of the City of New York’s “New York After Dark” cocktails Tuesday night expecting the usual champagne concoctions and outdoor dancing found a surprise waiting for them. Posted outside the upper Fifth Avenue mansion was a vocal and incensed pack of 25 protestors from Adalah-NY — sans permit, according to one observer — complete with signs and a take-no-prisoners attitude.

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Daily Front Row

After Dark

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The Upper East Side social set had to travel a bit further north than usual to make it to the Museum of the City of New York’s "New York After Dark" gala, and when they arrived they were faced with something decidedly un-chic: a protest. Seems a group of chanting, sign-carrying protesters from Adalah-NY were not fans of sponsor Lev Leviev (of LEVIEV Extraordinary Diamonds), and wanted to make sure guests of the event knew.

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