A New York City real estate agent caught on video following elementary school children with a megaphone, decrying the masks theyâre seen wearing and disparaging their parents for allowing the protective covering, was canned from a local brokerage for the one-man anti-mask protest last week.
Curtis Goldstein can be heard in the 56-second video posted late last week spewing anti-vaccine conspiracies and wondering aloud about the health of the masked children, who can be seen with backpacks leaving a school in what appears to be New York City. Shortly after the video was posted online Oct. 29, it went viral, prompting Goldsteinâs brokerage to denounce his actions and distance itself from the agent.
âThis is a psychological operation,â Goldstein said in a now-viral live stream of his solo protest in front of the school. âChildren should be breathing fresh oxygen. Why are we suppressing oxygen levels for our children? Why, why are we doing it? Parents, please pick up these masks from your children. Take them off; theyâre not helping. Theyâre degrading their health.â
âChildren need empathy. We only get that via facial recognition in the street,â he continued as parents urged him to stay away from their children. âYour parents are abusing you. Thatâs whatâs going on. Because they canât let go of CNN.â
âYour parents are abusing you.â
Meet Anti-mask/vax activist Curtis Goldstein (@homesbycurtis) who harasses masked school children and their parents with his megaphone as they walk home from school.
Curtis is a real estate agent at @RNewYorkBrokers. pic.twitter.com/EX8ekpydcl
â Resist Programming đ° (@RzstProgramming) October 29, 2021
Over the past several months, schools have become ground-zero for the debate about vaccine mandates as Pfizer and Moderna reach the finish line for approved usage in children aged five to 11. While FDA approval is welcome news to many parents, itâs become a clarion call for anti-vaxxers to double down on their efforts.
Goldsteinâs video quickly picked up steam on Twitter after Resist Programming, a left-leaning political profile with more than 50,000 followers, shared the video and exposed the agentâs treasure trove of controversial posts, including one that compared vaccine mandates to rape.
Although most of Goldsteinâs social media profiles have now been scrubbed, Twitter users unearthed an interview Goldstein did with US News during an Oct. 24 âStand with Kyrieâ event supporting Brooklyn Nets player Kyrie Irving whoâs refused to follow the NBAâs vaccine mandate.
âWe also know so much more than we knew 18 months ago about the virus,â Goldstein told US News under his social media moniker, Curtis Orwell. âWe have therapeutics that have been tried and proven to great success. Unfortunately, those kinds of voices are being totally suppressed and censored.â
âIt doesnât feel right to them and thatâs OK,â he added. âWe need to respect that.â
Thousands of Twitter users began retweeting whatâs left of Goldsteinâs public statements, and asked the agentâs brokerage, R New York, to release Goldstein from his contract with the company.
âCurtis Goldstein has linked his anti-vaxxer Facebook profile to his employer, R New York Real Estate,â Resist Programming tweeted. âDoes @RNewYorkBrokers support this kind of behavior⌠calling parents child abusers for allowing their children to wear masks?â
âHarassing children for something they have no control over is about as low as you can go. Itâs disgusting,â user @Amy0227 added. âI canât imagine anyoneâs employer being ok with this person representing their business.â
R New York does not support bullying or harassment of any kind, as it is not aligned with our values. The company has made a decision to terminate Curtis Goldstein effective immediately. He is no longer affiliated with the company.
â R New York (@RNewYorkBrokers) October 29, 2021
As news of Goldsteinâs video poured over to Instagram and Facebook, R New York released an announcement that Goldstein was no longer on the team.
âR New York does not support bullying or harassment of any kind, as it is not aligned with our values,â the brokerage said in a tweet thatâs garnered nearly 2,800 likes. âThe company has made a decision to terminate Curtis Goldstein effective immediately. He is no longer affiliated with the company.â
âGood on @RNewYorkBrokers,â retweeted user @the_tall_sister. â#HateHasNoHome in New York.â
Both R New York and Goldstein were unavailable for comment.