Zuccotti Park

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The Zuccotti Park (formerly Liberty Plaza Park ) is a place in the financial district of Manhattan , New York City . It is a 3,100 square foot public property owned by Brookfield Office Properties Inc. It is located between Broadway , Trinity Place, Liberty Street and Cedar Street. The northwest corner is across from the World Trade Center site . The Equitable Building as well as the Trinity and US Realty Buildings are in close proximity.

history

The park was created after a revision of the New York spatial planning in the 1960s, according to which companies can obtain permits to erect higher buildings in return for the creation of public open spaces. The United States Steel Corporation built the park in 1968 to ease the height restrictions and distance regulations for the 54-story One Liberty Plaza office building assigned to the park . After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, initially covered with rubble and then used for cleanup work, the square, which was renovated by the owner company Brookfield Office Properties for 8 million US dollars, was renamed in 2006 after its CEO John E. Zuccotti and opened again to the public .

Occupy New York

Since mid-September 2011, the square became the center of the Occupy Wall Street protest campaign. Protesters occupied the square and named it after the original name Liberty Park or Liberty Plaza . The choice of this location seems to have been favorable for the protest movement, as it is neither a public park (for which a municipal park ordinance with fixed opening times would apply), nor an enclosed private property (on which the owner can park at his own discretion Could exercise domiciliary rights). Until November 15, 2011, there were no attempts to evict the demonstrators as long as they followed the police's orders, which for example prohibited the erection of tents. However, the owner described the sanitary conditions as unsustainable as tents were repeatedly pitched.

On the night of November 15, 2011, the park was evacuated without major resistance after the police initially distributed leaflets asking them to leave the park. The reason for the evacuation was the cleaning of the park, as its occupation represents "an increasing threat to health and fire safety". Both Brookfield Office Properties and New York Mayor Bloomberg announced that the demonstrators could return - without tents and sleeping bags. Two days later, on the occasion of its two-month existence, the Occupy movement called for a “Day of Action”, during which over 2,000 people again gathered in Zuccotti Park. In clashes with the police, there are said to have been seriously injured demonstrators and police officers and 250 arrests.

Web links

Commons : Zuccotti Park  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Lisa W. Foderaro: Privately Owned Park, Open to the Public, May Make Its Own Rules. In: The New York Times. October 13, 2011, p. A26 , accessed December 14, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Brookfield Properties Re-Opens Lower Manhattan Park Following $ 8 Million Renovation . In: marketwire.com , June 1, 2006, accessed December 14, 2011.
  3. ^ Basil Katz: Park base helps anti-Wall Street protest endure. In: Reuters.com. October 5, 2011, accessed December 14, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Occupy supporters have to leave Zucotti Park. In: tagesschau.de. November 15, 2011, archived from the original on November 16, 2011 ; Retrieved December 14, 2011 .
  5. ^ Matthias Rüb: "Occupy Wall Street". 250 Occupy activists arrested in New York. In: FAZ.net. November 18, 2011, accessed December 14, 2011 .
  6. ^ Nicole Scherschun: Protests of the Occupy movement are escalating. In: dw-world.de. November 18, 2011, accessed December 14, 2011 .

Coordinates: 40 ° 42 ′ 33.8 "  N , 74 ° 0 ′ 40.8"  W.