By Drew Grant 5/02/12 5:09pm

Occupy Wall Street

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Hipster Cop loses hipster vote (YouTube)

Hipster Cop Rick Lee Loses His Cool With Musicians During May Day Jam Session (Video)

Occupy Wall Street 2.0 has saw some familiar faces in the mix during yesterday’s May Day protest, including “hipster cop” Detective Rick Lee. Yet the man who only months ago posed for “cool” magazine G.Q. and stood as a beacon of individualism in Ray Kelly’s otherwise not-so-beloved police force is now a Grumpy Old Man, reported Gothamist this afternoon. Apparently the springtime version of Hipster Cop hates music! Read More

By Drew Grant 11/04/11 5:03pm

Occupy Wall Street

Igloos and Occupiers

Note to OWS: Please Don't Occupy Central Park With Your Igloos

We are very serious here: The Occupy Wall Street movement’s biggest resource drain right now is trying to keep up the habitation of Zuccotti Park. Whatever message OWS may or may not have had has, in the past week or so, become a secondary concern to just keeping people alive, fed, warm, and un-raped. The media has also switched its attention to the more salacious stories about criminals and crazies slipping in amongst the protesters instead to what people were protesting to begin with.

So you know what wouldn’t help with this issue, now that the winter months are at our heels? Moving people to Central Park and building them igloos to live in, as has been suggested with this weekend’s upcoming Park march as well as the remarks of one entirely delusional person who spoke to Gothamist today. Read More