BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
Hudson Square is a neighborhoodstill striving to raise its profile. Andif Occupy Wall Street protesters hadgotten their wish, that certainly wouldhave happened in a big way, as theupcoming neighborhood would havebeen thrust into the glare of the inter-national media spotlight that is fol-lowing the determined fight of the “99percent” for economic justice.However, an effort to turn a pri-vately owned open space at DuarteSquare into Occupy Wall Street’s fall-back encampment on Tuesday morningran into a stiff blue wall of opposition.Earlier Tuesday, a massive forceof police officers had descended onZuccotti Park at 1 a.m. They spent thenext four hours systematically clearingthe tent-filled park.After O.W.S. was evicted fromits home base, protesters marchedaround Lower Manhattan or campedout nearby, then, shortly after dawn,regrouped at Duarte Square, at SixthAve. and Canal St. Holding a GeneralAssembly meeting, they resolved toenter the adjacent walled open spacethat has been used for LentSpace, apublic sculpture park run by the LowerManhattan Cultural Council. Some of them then hopped over the wall, whiletwo other individuals produced a boltcutter, which they used to clip a gap-ing hole in the chain-link fence on thespace’s southern side, allowing protest-ers to walk right in.However, police moved quickly toblock a new epicenter for O.W.S. — a“Zuccotti II” — from taking root in thegated space, making about 20 to 25arrests and forcing the protesters outof the enclosure.Garrett Perkins, 29, said the ideawas to use the LentSpace site as a newcamp-out area, partly because it wasprivately owned, but also because ithas walls around it, which would havemade it ideal. Perkins said he had actu-ally managed to pitch his tent in theLentSpace area when the police movedin to clear out the protesters, at whichpoint, he promptly threw his gear overthe fence and hopped out.As he spoke early Tuesday after-noon, he pulled out of his pocket asmall silver metal disk from an artworkon LentSpace’s eastern wall — a souve-nir from an almost occupation.A metal worker from Chugiak,
Occupy’s try to pitch its tentin Hudson Square is blocked
Photo by Jason B. Nicholas
Angry Occupy Wall Street protesters took to the streets on Tuesday after they were evicted from their home baseearlier in the morning.
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A high-tech garbage col-lection method has beenintroduced in Chinatownand Tompkins Square Park— which definitely can useit, since they’re located inone of Manhattan’s mostrodent-infested districts.The ChinatownPartnership LocalDevelopment Corporation,sponsor of the neighbor-hood’s forthcoming busi-ness improvement district,has partnered with DirectEnvironmental Corp. (DECGreen) to install a solar-powered, digitalized trashcompactor at the southeastcorner of Canal and MottSts.Community leadersalong with CouncilmemberMargaret Chin and othersgathered at the Chinatownintersection on Wed., Nov.9, to unveil the pilot com-pactor, dubbed, “BigBelly,”which holds five times theamount of garbage as atraditional trash receptacle
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This time there was nowarning, no advance noticeand no time to organize;the clearing of Occupy WallStreet demonstrators fromZuccotti Park, in the weehours of the morning onTuesday took everyone bysurprise.About 1 a.m. police offi-cers surrounded the park.Mayor Bloomberg, at a pressconference later Tuesdaymorning said the park’sowners, Brookfield OfficeProperties, had reached outto him and asked for help inenforcing park rules relatingto health and safety.“In our view, it wouldhave been irresponsible tonot request that the city takeaction,” Brookfield said in astatement. “Further, we havea legal obligation to the cityand to this neighborhood tokeep the park accessible to
O.W.S. had its two months, Mike says,as park is cleared
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SCARLETT LIKES SCOTT:
So far, Borough President
Scott Stringer
might not have raised the most money of potential mayoral candidates, though it’s still early. But hehas the support of one of Hollywood’s most beautiful leadingladies,
Scarlett Johansson
. The native Greenwich Villagerand P.S. 41 alum met Stringer for lunch over the summer andhe made his pitch for her endorsement and won her over. Itdidn’t hurt that ScarJo’s grandma,
Dorothy Sloan
, has fondmemories of campaigning as a tenant activist with Stringeron the Upper West Side in the 1980s or that Scarlett’s twinbrother,
Hunter Johannson
a.k.a. HuJo worked as the B.P.’sCommunity Board 2 liaison a few years ago. Last month,Scarlett added her star power to two Stringer fundraisersat the Plaza Hotel and an after-party at the Jane Ballroom.According to the New York Post, Johansson is pro-bikelanes, affordable housing and urban agriculture. “I hope toget the Broadway community involved in this campaign,”Johansson told the Post’s Page Six. “Scott has always beenan advocate for the arts and culture.” Hunter was at theparties, though hobbling around on crutches, recoveringfrom knee surgery. Here’s to a speedy recovery. Other guestsincluded
Lady Gaga
’s parents,
Joe
and
Cindy Germanotta
.Talk about “The Edge of Glory” — can Gaga’s endorsementbe far behind?
COMMITTEE GONE WILD:
The Democratic StateCommittee is generally expected to support the governoras the state’s top Democratic elected official, but it soundslike things have gone too far — to the point where com-mittee members are being denied the chance to vote onvitally important issues like hydrofracking and the “mil-lionaire’s tax.”
Rachel Lavine
, the Village’s DemocraticState Committee woman, filled us in on the sorry state of affairs. Basically, this time around, the state committee sentout meeting notices so late that it’s now arguing it’s too lateto have a vote on Lavine’s resolution banning hydrofrack-ing. “The current chairperson,
Jay Jacobs
, has played veryfast and loose with the rules,” Lavine noted disapprovingly.Plus, she said, it just so happens that Jacobs has land on theNew York/Pennsylvania border that he’s leasing out to a gascompany for drilling, which he didn’t disclose to committeemembers. “He has a lot of day camps and this is one he’sleasing out,” she noted. As for the millionaire’s tax, whichGovernor
Andrew
Cuomo
is intent on letting expire, Jacobsagain is twiddling his thumbs — this time with the help,Lavine tells us, of
Charlie King
, the committee’s executivedirector. Jacobs and King have decided to exclude discus-sion of the millionaire’s tax from the agenda of next week’skey meeting, she said. Lavine said she’ll work hard withthe committee’s Reform Caucus and Rural Caucus, plus theYoung Democrats, to try to finally bring these issues to thefloor for a vote.
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