Breslin: People rise, cops blink and a human rights movement takes root in a New York park http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/occupy_wall_street/2011/10/16/2011-10-16_witness_history_the_people_rise_the_cops_blink.html?r=ny_local&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+nydnrss%2Fny_local+%28NY+Local%29Bell Dobbs went to lower Broadway and Wall Street by his personal transportation. It's a fine ride on his bike that has no name and a lot of years and slams and mileage on it as the worn paint and many scratches and dents show.
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Dobbs got to the heart of the protests at the park on Broadway, where there were only 66,000 square feet. There are 43,000 to an acre. So you have an acre and a half, a suburban-size yard that is packed with a young throng hardly able to wait to get the feet moving.
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The stodgy, dusty people in the employ of news somewhere in the city began covering this story a month ago by claiming that the cause does not really exist, that the protesters were children with no idea of anything to do but annoy the adults. Each day, the crowd grew larger and there came a moment in a city newsroom when somebody picked up his head and wondered if they couldn't begin to cover the news.
The news was not about Bloomberg the mayor. He has an arrogance that, as always with the rich, comes with the poorest knowledge of people. I don't know how the city made him mayor. It also turns out that his lady friend is on the board of the real estate company that handles Zuccotti Park, and that wants to push and con the protesters out of the park. Great surprise!
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