More than 50 protesters, including Maspeth, Queens residents, gathered in Greenpoint on Wednesday night to protest outside the home of Lincoln Restler, a senior advisor to Mayor Bill de Blasio. Banging on kitchen pots, they accused Restler of divisiveness and racism for posting a picture on Facebook in which his sister holds a cardboard sign that reads "Fuck Whiteness."

Restler, who is white, captioned the post with a message about standing in solidarity with immigrant families, apparently in response to President-elect Donald Trump's promise to deport millions of undocumented immigrants. "To celebrate my mama's birthday, we took to the streets to stand in solidarity with immigrant New Yorkers," Restler wrote. In the post, which has since been deleted, Restler's mother holds a sign that reads "Love," and his father a sign that reads "Black + Brown + Immigrant Lives Matter."

Wednesday's protest "was a bunch of white people saying another white person was being racist against white people," summarized Rebecca, who lives in Greenpoint and could see and hear the group chanting on Driggs Street. (She declined to give her last name.)

"We're on a fourth floor walkup and we were able to hear the air horns and bullhorn shouting from our apartment," she added.

Maspeth resident Robert Holden, president of the Juniper Park Civic Association, participated in Wednesday's protest and said that Restler's photograph was proof that Mayor de Blasio endorses hate.

"[The mayor] thinks it's all right to protest and put out anti-white racial comments," Holden said. "That is just divisive. He is supposed to bring the city together. For a senior advisor to the mayor to think that's okay to post, shows how incompetent he is."

"Once it was exposed the little coward took it right down rather than try to explain it," Holden added. "The mayor should be putting out a statement to apologize."

Mayoral spokeswoman Aja Worthy-Davis told Gothamist Wednesday that the Mayor did not think that Restler's post was appropriate. "It was removed by Lincoln," she said. "I think his intention was to protest white supremacy. Obviously it was not well articulated. He has been spoken to and we're moving on."

The Mayor's Office declined to comment on Wednesday's protest.

live from greenpoint anti lincoln restler protest pic.twitter.com/vcz8QKy2AO — Gabriela Barkho (@gabrielabarkho) November 17, 2016

Holden's civic group has been active in Maspeth since the summer, rallying with other local residents against a Department of Homeless Services plan to convert a Holiday Inn Express Hotel in their neighborhood into a homeless shelter for adult families. The original plan has since been scrapped, though DHS is currently renting out 30 rooms to use as shelter beds for employed homeless men.

Maspeth residents have argued that a shelter will diminish their safety and quality of life, while City Hall has countered that it has little patience for communities unwilling to accommodate their fair share of city services. Maspeth residents have also speculated that a City Hall video featuring protesters outside of another Queens shelter, in which chants of "White Lives Matter!" are audible, features dubbed-in audio. Denying the chants, Holden accused City Hall of holding up a double standard: accusing Maspeth residents of racism while being racist (anti-white) itself.

Rebecca, Restler's neighbor, said that she saw "Make America Great Again" hats in the crowd of protesters on Wednesday, and Holden said he saw "one person wearing a hat."

"How is that relevant?" he added. "Maspeth went for Hillary Clinton."

President-elect Trump's recent decision to appoint Steve Bannon as Chief of Staff further solidifies his alignment with a media mogul who has stoked and expressed anti-immigrant, Anti-Semitic, and white supremacist views. Kenneth Lovett, a Daily News reporter who reported on the reaction to Restler's Facebook post, Tweeted about an anti-Semitic comment he received in its wake.

scary email on my Lincoln Restler story: "Hes not White, hes a Jew, like you, and you despise Anglo Saxons because you are racist scum." — ken lovett (@klnynews) November 17, 2016

Restler deferred comment to the Mayor's Office.