Posted on 10/22/2011 12:35:09 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
"These protesters are destroying our neighborhood. This 'good neighbor' policy? Good neighbors pay rent!" A smattering of applause was swallowed by a chorus of boos after 26-year-old Frank Calvosa spoke at last night's CB 1 Quality of Life Committee meeting. Calvosa was one of around ten people who spoke condemning Occupy Wall Street's presence in Lower Manhattan, and they were outnumbered. Resident Garrett McConnell took the mic shortly after: "Who are these people who live in Manhattan expecting peace and quiet? New York is loud, dirty, and fabulous!"
"Hipster Cop" was MIA, but over a hundred people, including Councilmember Margaret Chin, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and State Senator Daniel Squadron packed the room at 250 Broadway to discuss the drumming that occurs at the southwestern corner of Zuccotti Park. All the elected officials hedged their bets, professing support for the protests but stressing that "people need a good night's sleep."
Boardmember Diane Lapson had many of her peers nodding their heads when she stressed "both sides need to chill out. I have lived here since 1975 and have heard nothing but noise, mostly from the rich real estate types taking away low-income housing." As for the protesters, they should realize that "people need their sleep. If my daughter was drumming in my apartment for 14 hours, I'd murder her."
Last week the protesters ratified a Good Neighbor Policy that permitted the drumming for two hours between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m., a rule that proved difficult to enforce. As the committee confirmed that the drumming would in fact be limited to two hours and enforced by the protesters' own volunteer security team, a woman who identified herself as "a drummer" repeatedly shouted "four!" A protester tugged on her sleeve and scolded her, but she continued her periodic outbursts: "It's the drilling that's more noisy!" Occupy Wall Street's current sanitation manager at the park, Max Hodes, told us, "I heard she works for the Huffington Post."
As the meeting wore on, noise complaints gave way to stories of people defecating and urinating in public places and one woman claimed that "two protesters exposed their genitalia to me. Something must be done." Area man Gordon Crovitz, former publisher of The Wall Street Journal, took the mic to say, "Occupations by definition are un-democratic, and these people are taking our space. And they talk about democracy. Democracies are supposed to be accountable. These protesters need to be accountable for what goes down there."
The omnipresent police barricades that keep the neighborhood congested was an issue that both sides could agree on. Vincent Alessi, part-owner of Bobby Van's Steakhouse on Broad Street blamed them for a slump in customers. "Business is down 15%, these barricades need to be taken down. That's the NYPD. The protesters are peaceful," Alessi said. Farrell McManus uttered possibly the biggest applause line of the night when he said, "I'm just a middle-aged, pudgy white guy. I'm not cool enough to be an occupier. But we need to be complaining about these barricades to our billionaire mayor! Not these guys."
All of the complaints yielded an amendment to a noise resolution that asked the NYPD to removed all nonessential barricades. Two hours later, the committee passed the resolution with only one objection and one abstention, ahead of next Tuesday's meeting of the entire CB 1. "It's a big relief," Hodes said. "We can't even call it a victory, because there wasn't even much of a battle. People understand that we have to share the work together as a community."
I have to say, I love it that liberal New Yorkers have to deal with this stuff.
I think they are now longing for “Communism with a human face, and an 8PM curfew.”
I bet Rudy would have cleaned them out if he was still mayor. Bloomberg is just a plantation owner that doesn’t care about his plantation..He just like to rule on those things he finds offensive...I wonder if the protestor’s are allowed to smoke out in the public space....Bloomy has laws against it, no smoking in public parks...NYC has become the joke it was under David Dinkins and all the other democrat mayors...
For all those who missed out on San Francisco in the sixties.
This will ultimately prove to be a great thing for conservatism just as Obama has proven to be. It sucks now, but long term it may bring about ‘change’ for the good. People need liberalism to effect them personally and in a way that really p1$$es them off before shedding the fantasy that it’s just a harmless bunch of 60s wannabees.
Obama has driven even Democrats away from this communistic crap. The OWS garbage is doing the dame. Even DU of all places is upset with their antics, though for a different reason.
I hope they keep going. I hope they ramp it up the closer it gets to the election. Because lets face it. When Obama loses, there WILL be rioting regardless of OWS. But the more people they upset the better. Because those people will side with law, order and decency when the SHTF.
Do I WANT to see it happen? Deep down, No, but I truly believe it HAS to happen. History is filled with things like this and ‘we’ always win in the end. Because ‘they’ have nothing but misery and failure to go on.
This is simply intimation by numbers.
...”I bet Rudy would have cleaned them out if he was still mayor. Bloomberg is just a plantation owner that doesn’t care about his plantation..He just like to rule on those things he finds offensive...I wonder if the protestor’s are allowed to smoke out in the public space....Bloomy has laws against it, no smoking in public parks...NYC has become the joke it was under David Dinkins and all the other democrat mayors”...
Yes..NYC under Rudy became a great and safe city..Now, I think it will return to the bad old days..How insulting to the intelligence it is to ban salt in restaurant menus and then, allow the public health to suffer from excrement in the street. Stopping this madness is more complicated..Rudy brought about his change, as I understand it, through the prosecution of the small crimes first. Remove those people and you make a big dent in bigger crimes. Peaceful demonstrations are healthy..The demonstration we are witnessing now is bordering on treason and is not about Wall Street. It is about bringing down our system and it involves danger to people in the area.
If Rudy was still in charge, there would have been NO OWS. He would not have let them in to begin with.
I believe in an interview w/ either Sean or Mark he said if he were still Mayor, he would have sued to prevent this from even happening.
Summer of Love vs. Summer of poop.
Boardmember Diane Lapson had many of her peers nodding their heads when she stressed “both sides need to chill out. I have lived here since 1975 and have heard nothing but noise, mostly from the rich real estate types taking away low-income housing.”
Well, that says it all, huh?
Hey. I have less than a little sympathy for these people. They are liberals to the core, let them live in the cesspool they have created.
Rudy took a BEATING....but kept on going. The police, firefighters, emts, everyone hated him.
Come to think of it, the haters were all union people, hmmmm.
But he took that piece of turd and turned it into a shiny piece of gold.
Now it’s once again going to crapola!
I CANNOT believe that about your niece, how disgusting! I’m sorry, I forgot it was young American gals who hijacked our planes and drove them into buildings killing almost 3000 fellow Americans.
Silly me, where is my mind going.(I’d say more, but I don’t want to be reprimanded by the mods).
There has to be a better way. I wonder how many politicans have stock in all the equipment they use...My niece had already gone throught the X ray and thats why they made her take out her prothesis. I guess it could have been a bomb on a 50 year old white female with blonde hair..
Those damn blondes and their highjackings. About time the TSA put a top to it!
Those damn blondes and their highjackings. About time the TSA put a stop to it!
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