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NYPD officers arrested several people at Zuccotti Park last night. One officer tells a reporter “Stop the wises asses. Especially if you’re the press. Stop being wise.”

via Gothamist

Mayor Michael Bloomberg wasn’t responsible for the presence of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in Zuccotti Park, but he’s now responsible for their eviction from there. It’s too soon to tell whether he’ll also be responsible for reviving a demonstration that, after nearly two months, had begun to blend into whatever passes as New York City’s normal landscape. More here.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg wasn’t responsible for the presence of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in Zuccotti Park, but he’s now responsible for their eviction from there. It’s too soon to tell whether he’ll also be responsible for reviving a demonstration that, after nearly two months, had begun to blend into whatever passes as New York City’s normal landscape.

More here.

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A homeless man kicked a tent and a protester punched him. The incident, captured by a Post photographer, is called “a rampage” and “Godzilla-like” and described as happening multiple times. It’s also “the type of increasingly violent incident” happening in “Zoo-cotti” Park.
from my roundup
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Someone will likely rise out of this movement born in Zuccotti Park and capture the imagination of our city
Mike Schenkler / Queens Tribune

Bloomberg: Brookfield got ‘threatening’ calls from lawmakers

Capital New York:

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said this morning that the longer the protest at Zuccotti Park continues, the “worse” it will be for the New York City economy, but that there was a “limit” to what the city could do to remove protesters, since it is a privately owned park.

Bloomberg also said the park’s owner, Brookfield Office Properties, “got lots of calls, from many elected officials, threatening them.”

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The longer this goes on, the worse it is for our economy
Mayor Michael Bloomberg on the Occupy Wall Street protest 
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Dear @MikeBloomberg — I will pay for clean-up of Zuccotti Park to avoid confrontation.
Russell Simmons, on Twitter.

Bloomberg tells Occupy Wall Street protesters to clear Zuccotti Park by Friday

Capital New York:

Wall Street may not be occupied for much longer.

Two days after Mayor Michael Bloomberg said protesters could stay in Zuccotti Park “indefinitely” if they followed the law, the mayor visited them tonight to say they had to be out of there by Friday, according to the mayor’s office. The reason given by the mayor tonight was that the park needs to be cleaned. 

The request to clean the park is coming from the company that owns it, Brookfield Office Properties, which wrote a two-page letter to the NYPD asking for help “to clear the Park” and to “assist” on an “ongoing basis” in order to keep the area safe and clean.

In the Oct. 11 letter to NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, Brookfield’s C.E.O., Richard B. Clark, said the four-week old “trespassing of the protesters” has created “a health and public safety issue that must be addressed immediately.”