Between the city's spike in murders and shootings, a tough fight in Albany on policy matters and protests at City Hall, Mayor Bill de Blasio is getting pummeled on a daily basis. It hasn't helped that some advocates who should be part of the progressive mayor's base seem to be turning on him. NY1’s Grace Rauh filed this report.

It's not every day you see a coffin on the sidewalk just outside City Hall, but it was there Wednesday as a symbol that too many people are dying on the city's streets.

“He calls us fear mongers, insults us and then goes on a TV show and crack jokes about people dying in our community. That's a problem,” says community activist Tony Herbert.

Tony Herbert—a perennial protestor—was referring to the Mayor's appearance on “The Daily Show” Tuesday night.

He says he thought Mayor Bill de Blasio would be a partner in fighting crime.

“This mayor won’t come in the community, won’t come to the hood and talk to us to help resolve this problem,” Herbert says.

The mayor says public safety is his most important priority, and he says he is confident the NYPD will turn things around.

The coffin protest was not the only one along Broadway Wednesday, however. HIV-AIDS activists are denouncing the city's decision to close for renovations a Chelsea clinic that tests for sexually transmitted diseases. The city says it will take two to three years to finish the work.

“This is supposed to be an administration that is friendly to the LGBT community. This kind of friendship costs lives,” says Andrew Velez of Act Up.

A spokesman for the city's health department says there is a mobile health services van outside the shuttered clinic and says the city is helping direct clients to other local health providers.

The president of the powerful health care workers union, 1199 SEIU, says New Yorkers need to be patient and take the long view. De Blasio spoke at a union conference in downtown Brooklyn.

 “We haven't had a champion in this city for a long time to stand up for working people. Let's not kill our champion that we finally had because we haven't made enough progress,” says 1199 SEIU President George Gresham.

Union members who flocked to the mayor after his remarks only seemed eager to embrace him.