With those helmets, impossible to be sure, but they might be a bunch of blacks. “Upper Manhattan” has several different populations, but a good bit of it is black, from Harlem on north.
I once was driving home on the West Side Drive fairly late at night, in Upper Manhattan, and a black guy on a motorcycle passed my car, swerved in front of me, and suddenly jammed on the brakes. There was at least one other black guy on a bike behind me.
Instead of stopping, I swerved left and took off. I had no interest in a confrontation with a black guy in a black part of town, and I figured maybe he wanted to rob me or steal my car.
Of course, this is purely speculative. A couple of faces look black in these photos, but that might just be the shadows of the helmets, and the photos are too small to see very well.
No doubt at all about the one that bashed in the window with his helmet.
...but yeah, a white man will find no friends on 178 Street unless he is buying drugs.
The guy who jumped off his bike at the end pulled his helmut off to smash the SUV’s window was black.
You can tell from looking at their arms a number of them are white.
I’ve seen that mob mentality before, and I bet a number, maybe 1/2 or more of them are butt buddies.