“They disappeared because THEY WERE NOTHING BUT ASTROTURF ALL ALONG. When the Democrat/media complex realized that the general sociopathy exhibited at Occupy camps was hurting more than helping, they began ignoring the Occupiers. The whole movement was based (as with all things leftist) on emotion rather than intellect, so it crumbled rather easily.”
Living a dozen miles to the west, and knowing a couple of people working in the financial sector at the time, I must say that the original Occupy Wall Street was misunderstood all around. At first it was a group of laid-off white workers (probably left of center, due to the area) who had watched their jobs go overseas; it was taken over by leftist whackos of every stripe, and was relegated to pure theater. I remember when they used to get news coverage, and I remember when it stopped: Live interviews started showing “normal” people ranting against Obama. After that, the plug was pulled by the mainstream media.
As for where they are now, I’m sure many of them have joined the white exodus out of the NYC area - there isn’t much future here for people looking for decent-paying work.
I worked not 12 miles but three blocks to the east at the time. It did not begin with or ever include “laid-off white workers” - it began with professional protesters from Day 1.