Now that Occupy Wall Street’s encampment has been cleared out since mid-November and their activities significantly reduced, people are getting a little sick of the NYPD’s tourist unfriendly barricades surrounding Arturo DiModica’s famed “Charging Bull” sculpture in Lower Manhattan. Read more »
According to a new report, the city needs to find a new sugar daddy or face an uncertain future. “Significantly lower Wall Street profits will make balancing New York City’s budget more difficult,” wrote State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. Perhaps it’s not good fiscal policy to depend on dysfunctional gamblers to pay the bills?
The premise is simple. Go to different areas of the city and ask people: What are you doing tonight? This is the first installment. Many more to come. Read more »
Seeing photos of camo-painted Batmobiles on the set of the Dark Knight Rises is one thing, but seeing video of them actually moving is an experience all to itself. Anyway, just like other motor vehicles in NYC, the Tumblers have horns and similarly, their drivers aren’t afraid to use them.
Security was tight on Wall Street as choruses of loud shouts echoed through the air and angry mobs clashed with police. No this wasn’t an Occupied Wall Street march, it was the filming of en epic battle scene for the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises. I managed to slip through their checkpoints twice and snap some photos. Read more »
Something “hobbled” the website for the New York Stock Exchange at least “twice” today, reports the Associated Press, citing Keynote Systems Inc., a firm that measures these types of things. Does this mean that hacker group Anonymous kept good on the threats it may or may not have made against the financial institution? Read more »
“We no longer live in Bear and Bull times… Get ready for the Age of the Bison!” The “publicly funded” project Wall Street Bison wants to “legally” ditch the Bowling Green Bull and replace it with a more appropriate mammal mascot. Why bison? Read more »
Revolutions are sweeping across the Middle East and so it’s inevitable that America’s armchair activists will try to attach themselves to the rebels in their own special way. That day is coming in the form of a “Wall Street Occupation” on September 17th. Read more »
A bond-brokering single mom from St. Louis is taking credit for hiring the plane that towed an aerial banner over Manhattan on Tuesday which read: “Thanks For The Downgrade. You Should All Be Fired.” It was flown near Wall Street and since the S&P offices are in the same vicinity, some news outlets assumed the notice was targeting the financial services company, but the woman says her message was intended for Congress and she would have done it in DC, if not for the airspace restrictions.
Of the 50 actors streaking around the New York Stock Exchange on Monday morning, three were arrested – a naked janitor and stock broker and a topless dog walker. See her and a nude-ish few more here. NSFW. Read more »
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