Corporate Counsel’s offices are located one block from Wall Street and the New York Stock Exchange. On Monday, various groups followed up Sunday’s huge (300,000+ people) climate-change demonstration in New York with a “Flood Wall Street” show of force. And while the demonstrators didn’t actually flood Wall Street proper, which was blocked by police, they managed to shut down Broadway, the main thoroughfare through the area.
At the outset, as demonstrators held a sit-in on Broadway, the gathering was easygoing, in marked contrast to the confrontational atmosphere in the same locale between police and Occupy Wall Street protesters during the era of the previous mayor, Michael Bloomberg. But just in case legal issues arose, the NYPD Legal Unit had a post nearby, sporting identifying polo shirts and jackets.
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