Last night Mayor Bloomberg and the NYPD notified protesters at Occupy Wall Street of plans to “clean the park” tomorrow starting at 7 a.m., as per request from the plaza’s owner, Brookfield Properties.
The same line was used as a pretense to shut down the union-organized squat “Bloombergville,” so the protesters have bought brooms and buckets and are attempting to spiff up the plaza themselves, in the rain:
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