Zuccotti Park Clean Up (Video)

UPDATE: NYC official: Protest cleanup is being postponed

The cleanup of a plaza in lower Manhattan where protesters have been camped out for a month was postponed early Friday, sending cheers up from a crowd that had feared the effort was merely a pretext to evict them.

Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway said the owners of the private park, Brookfield Office Properties, had put off the cleaning. Supporters of the protesters had started streaming into the park in the morning darkness before the planned cleaning, forming a crowd of several hundred chanting people.

..."Late last night, we received notice from the owners of Zuccotti Park — Brookfield Properties — that they are postponing their scheduled cleaning of the park, and for the time being withdrawing their request from earlier in the week for police assistance during their cleaning operation," the deputy mayor's statement said.

The New York Police Department had said it would make arrests if Brookfield requested it and laws were broken. The deputy mayor's statement Friday said Brookfield believes it can work out an arrangement with the protesters that "will ensure the park remains clean, safe, available for public use," it said.

Brookfield, a publicly traded real estate firm, had planned to power-wash the plaza section by section over 12 hours and allow the protesters back — but without much of the equipment they needed to sleep and camp there. The company called the conditions at the park unsanitary and unsafe.

The company's rules, which haven't been enforced, have been this all along: No tarps, no sleeping bags, no storing personal property on the ground. The park is privately owned but is required to be open to the public 24 hours per day.

Yuck!

Read Michelle Malkin's "Costs of the Occupiers."
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HELL NO! WE WON'T GO!

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From the Associated Press:

Occupy Wall Street protesters have been cleaning their park encampment into the night after hearing that park owners want them to clear out Friday morning so they can scrub the place down.

Protesters suspect the scheduled cleanup is an attempt to evict them from Manhattan's Zuccotti Park where they have waged a nearly monthlong protest against corporate greed.

Many have vowed to resist leaving, and some trained in civil disobedience Thursday night. They practiced linking arms and sitting down.

Members of the protesters' sanitation working group passed out 30-gallon bins for people to organize their belongings. Jordan McCarthy, a 22-year-old member of the group says she won't be sleeping at all.

The park owners said the protesters can return after the cleanup but won't be able to camp there.

Will the occupation end?

Have the protesters grown so attached to their filth that they can't part with it?

Gross. Really, really gross.