Former "Occupy Wall Street" space now occupied: by artisanal food trucks

Noreen Malone reports on the new "occupiers" of the Trinity Wall Street space in the New York online:

Late last year, when Occupy Wall Street was kicked out of Zuccotti Park, protestors marched north and tried to occupy another public-private space, Duarte Square. They didn't last long in the space, thanks to aggressive policing and a less-than-hospitable landlord. A spokesman for Trinity Church, which owns the space (and had previously supported the movement), described the attempted occupation as "Wrong, unsafe, unhealthy and potentially injurious."
Duarte Square happens to be across the street from New York's offices, though we'd barely noticed it before the Occupy fracas. Normally, it's a barren, gravel-filled space filled with seldom-used green chairs. This morning, there were four artisanal food trucks parked inside the park. There will eventually be six parked there three times a week, Jordi Loaeza, the 20-year-old co-owner of Mexico Blvd., told Daily Intel, pending final official approval from Trinity, which he says is "absolutely" a done deal.
Loaeza says he reads the Occupy Wall Street blog, and agrees with "parts." "I did hear that they kicked them out of this lot, but we pay to be here, " he says. "This gets trucks off the street." And fits better into Trinity's image of the neighborhood: The church, which owns a large block of real estate, has worked hard to rebrand the corridor, which it dubbed "Hudson Square," into a tech and media hot spot...
Posted by Kurt Wiesner on May 17, 2012 12:01 PM | |
Comments (2)

Wow! Unbelievable. Comment? How about "You cannot serve both God and mammon?" Or "Let them eat cake! (or kimchee tacos). Just what TEC needs, a church firmly in the camp of the "Country Club at Prayer." Am I missing something here?

Posted by Jeffrey L. Shy, M.D. [TypeKey Profile Page] | May 17, 2012 2:39 PM

Supporting a 20 year old with a small business seems a much better use of space and a clearer counter to Big Finance than allowing people to "occupy" private property ad nauseum.

Posted by Isaac Bradshaw [TypeKey Profile Page] | May 17, 2012 9:04 PM

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