Financial District

[lofter1]

Why don't you set one up on your street?

[Ninjahedge]

Because nobody would go there.

I am in Rutherford now ya numbnut!

(BTW, after living in Hoboken for 13 years, a sidewalk cafe is nothing compared to a concert room 2 doors and 3 stories away from your bedroom window.)

[Merry]

LOFL! No one seems to be taking any notice, in the photo anyway. Gotta love NYC . And good news stories like this. I like the idea behind the performance.


Naked New Yorkers arrested for strippping down on Wall St. in early-morning performance art piece

BY John Doyle AND Barry Paddock



Three New Yorkers were arrested for disrobing on Wall St. early Monday morning.

Dozens of people got naked on Wall St. early Monday as part of a performance art project, and three were busted by cops.

"It was like out of a porn movie," said shocked street vendor Ali Wafaa, 27, who has run a coffee cart in the area for 10 years. "I wish New York City would always be like that."

After disrobing in front of the New York Stock Exchange about 7 a.m., the titillating trio was taken to the 1st Precinct stationhouse in Tribeca. They were each released with a summons, police said.

"They were completely undressed," a police source said of the two men taken in into custody.

Artist Zefrey Throwell gathered 50 people on Wall Street as part of a performance art event called "Ocularpation: Wall Street" where participants posed as traders, janitors and secretaries.

Throwell says he was inspired by his 65-year-old mother's loss of most of her retirement savings during the Wall St. crash, which forced her to return to work.

"I came up with this as an educational project to help illuminate the mysterious wheels of Wall St.," he told the News. "It's not just a strip tease."

The nudity represented the transparency Throwell believes Wall St. needs.

"People loved it," he said. "It was a ludicrous event."

"It was pretty hard to keep a straight face," said Eric Clinton Anderson, 32, a Brooklyn artist who was one of the men apprehended by cops.

But Anderson, who was detained by police for an hour and a half before getting a summons, said he was motivated by serious anger at financial execs.

"I think it's pretty interesting Wall St. guys can do what they've done," he said, "and nobody goes to jail."

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/...formance_.html

[mariab]

• Saw this on Fox5News tonight. "The Rise of Lower Manhattan"
  
  http://video.foxnews.com/v/1296876867001/