You dirty rotten smelly non-working/broken park BENCHES!!!!

/good for the Mayor for stopping by

Crabs_Can_Polevault: FTFA: The request to clean the park is coming from the company that owns it, Brookfield Office Properties, on whose behalf the chief executive wrote a two-page letter to the NYPD asking for help "to clear the Park" and to "assist" on an "ongoing basis" to keep the area safe and clean.

So let me get this straight... The people who own a large plot of vacant, undeveloped land in New York City need the people protesting crony capitalism and the obscenely rich to move out of the park so it can be ...cleaned?

The park is owned by brookfield, who built and maintained it as part of an agreement for a zoning variance for a neighboring building. Basically "hey, you say we can only have 70% lot coverage where we are building building A, but why don't you let us go up to 80%, and instead of throwing another building up on this other plot, we will make it a public park, that we will upkeep.

Everyone wins. The city and its residents get more open space than they would have without the variance, which is maintained for free, and the company gets to build the building they want on the neighboring plot of land.

The park is right across the street from our office, and was a nice place to hang out, until it turned into the parking lot from a phish show.

Incidently, this is the reason those people picked that park. The cops can't kick them out without the building telling them to, since it isn't public\city land. The building, for its part, promised 24x7 public access to the park as part of the deal for the variance, so opens itself up to lawsuits if they do boot people from the park, or someone gets their skull cracked during the process.

The city offered to clean the park in sections, so they wouldn't have to completely clear out. The OWS idiots have said, "No man, we will do it ourselves!" (funny, why weren't they doing that all along), and are asking for donations of brooms and such, and now say they will hold firm and not let anyone into the park tomorrow.

FeFiFoFark: they should move to a public park

Most, if not all, public parks in NYC technically close at midnight (although its rarely enforced). You also have all sorts of laws in place prohibiting camping and the like. Moving to a public park would allow the city to forcibly kick them out at night (much like what boston did).

Brookfield, who owns the park, has been VERY accommodating to these idiots. I'm sure its for fear of lawsuits, but regardless, its been a month now, everyone has had their fun, lets let those of us who have to actually work down there be able to go about our day normally.

dslknowitall: LineNoise:
The city offered to clean the park in sections, so they wouldn't have to completely clear out.


Frank: Hey Louie, com'ere and look at this
Louie: Yeah Frank whats up?
Frank: Look at this here cracked lighting lens
Louie: Oh yeah Frank dat is one cracked lighting lens
Frank: Sure is. It's a danger to everyone.
Louie: Oh yeah sure it dangerous. Somebodies could get hurted.
Frank: Sure could. Big safety issue here.
Louie: Yup 'fraid we can't let anyone get hurt. Gonna have to shut down the park for safety.
Frank: Yeah no choice. We sure don't want to but we need to be safe.

And that's pretty much what will happen.

And not a single fark will be given.

mbillips: In before the "filthy hippie" jokes....aw dammit.

You're in the park right now??