Instead he was left feeling pretty meh about the whole thing. Continue reading »
Zuccotti Park
In fact, they’re reportedly not letting anyone leave the park (all exits have been closed off), unless they’re being arrested. Continue reading »
Around 11 a.m., hundreds of protesters streamed into Zuccotti Park, shoving aside barricades and flowing into the granite expanse that they had been ousted from on Tuesday. They chanted “our park” and lifted barricades in the air near Cedar Street…A line of police officers wielding batons pushed into the crowd near Cedar Street, but after a moment those officers were directed backward by Joseph J. Esposito, the chief of the department. But before Chief Esposito directed the police back, several officers could be seen shoving and punching protesters and journalists. [CityRoom]
In the 48 days since the airing of grievances against Wall Street began, New York-based protestors have mostly remained in their headquarters at Zuccotti Park (Broadway & Liberty Street), with day trips uptown to visit JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citigroup and John Paulson. The group has plans to migrate west today at noon, when they’ll “march on Goldman Sachs” and “ask for something our judicial and legislative systems have so far failed to deliver – the return of billions of taxpayer dollars to the 99 percent and criminal sentences for those Goldman Sachs executives who carried out the fraud.” Perhaps not being able to wait another second to see Lloyd et al, however, a few members of the group apparently got a head start last night. Continue reading »
Some protesters objected to city and the landlord’s depiction of the park and said some would try to remain, no matter what the city or Brookfield do. “Unsanitary? We have a cleaning department here,” said Junior Martinez, 23 years old, who lives on the Lower East Side when not camping out. He added: “Tents or not, we will sleep without tents. I think people are going to end up doing it no matter what.” [WSJ, earlier]
As you may have heard, there are protests going on downtown, organized by a group of individuals who’ve got beef with the financial industry. They’ve gone on longer than most would’ve expected (with at least one promise made that no one is leaving “until Wall Street crumbles“) and despite being peaceful so far (on the side of the protestors– the NYPD, not so much), have started making some people a little nervous. Specifically, those who run the banks OccupyWallStreet takes issue with. Luckily, nobody needs to live in fear, because of three simple words: Andrew Ross Sorkin. Little known fact about ARS is that in addition to overseeing Dealbook, writing books and anchoring Squawk Box, the hardest working man in America also runs a part time private security firm. Knowing about Sorkin’s side-gig, one CEO** got him on the horn last week to figure out what’s what.
I had gone down to Zuccotti Park to see the activist movement firsthand after getting a call from the chief executive of a major bank last week, before nearly 700 people were arrested over the weekend during a demonstration on the Brooklyn Bridge. “Is this Occupy Wall Street thing a big deal?” the C.E.O. asked me. I didn’t have an answer. “We’re trying to figure out how much we should be worried about all of this,” he continued, clearly concerned. “Is this going to turn into a personal safety problem?”
Andrew wasn’t sure but knew that a job this big required he check out the scene himself, rather than sending some doe-eyed intern from his team. Continue reading »
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