Hiroko Masuike/The New York TimesTechnicians from the Riverhead Foundation on Thursday removed a dead dolphin from the Hudson at Chelsea Piers and carted it away for examination.
Updated, 6:40 p.m. | A dead dolphin was found Thursday morning in the Hudson River at Chelsea Piers. It was a common dolphin, said Kimberly Durham, a biologist with the Riverhead Foundation, the organization that removed the animal’s body from the marina.
It was believed to be a different animal from a dolphin seen earlier this week swimming in the Hudson off Manhattan — that one, Ms. Durham said, was believed to be an offshore bottlenose, a species rarely seen this close to land.
The foundation plans a necroscopy this weekend to determine the cause of death. It will also compare its dorsal fin with photographs of the live dolphin to determine if it was the same animal. Read more…
DNAinfo.com New YorkAn offshore bottlenose dolphin swimming in the Hudson off Manhattan on Sunday.
What was an offshore bottlenose dolphin doing in Harlem?
“It might have taken the A train and leapt with ease over the turnstile,” joked Carl Safina, an ecologist and professor at Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences.
Kimberly Durham, a biologist and the director of Riverhead’s rescue program, said that the foundation has received reports of dolphins in the river before but the facts that it appeared to be a species called the offshore bottlenose, usually found in cold, deep water, and that it was alone, gave cause for concern. Read more…
Kayana Szymczak/Getty ImagesStaying put in Dewey Square, Boston, early Friday morning.
New York City was briefly reoccupied on Thursday, after a Zuccotti Park-like set for the television franchise “Law & Order” was taken over by protesters. [City Room]
In Boston, the police commissioner, Edward F. Davis, visited the tent city in Dewey Square on Friday morning, saying that the police would clear the park slowly. The police did not forcibly evict a small group of protesters who remained in the square after a midnight deadline. [Boston Globe]
Evert Elzinga/European Pressphoto AgencyOccupiers in Amsterdam were arrested Thursday after the mayor ordered the size of the encampment reduced by 75 percent.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg declared Representative Jerrold Nadler’s call for a federal investigation of police conduct at Occupy Wall Street “ridiculous.” “This is not a federal issue,” the mayor said. “There are plenty of investigations going on.” He added, regarding Mr. Nadler, “If he would spend more time getting us homeland security money, maybe he’d make the streets safer.” [Inside Politics]
New York University is offering two classes on Occupy Wall Street next spring in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis. The sophomore level class, designed, according to the course catalog, “to provide a background for these momentous events,” is called “Cultures and Economies: Why Occupy Wall Street?” [Washington Square News, The Observer]
Tens of thousands of workers with the European Metalworkers’ Federation demonstrated Wednesday across Europe in a coordinated strike and a series of rallies to protest layoffs and plant closings. [In These Times]
Protesters in Washington, D.C., celebrated after a judge ruled that the police must give 24 hours warning before evicting demonstrators in an encampment. The occupation of McPherson Square was raided with little warning Sunday after protesters built a barn-like structure there. [Washington Post] Read more…
Yuri Gripas/ReutersProtesters in Washington blocked K Street, the lobbyist lane of lore, on Wednesday. One beat on a trash can with a piece of pallet.
Protests continued Wednesday in Moscow for a third straight night. On Monday, thousands of demonstrators took to the streets, expressing anger with Vladimir Putin’s ruling party and prompting some to question whether Moscow could become a new Occupy site. [Associated Press]
The New York Police Department objected to calls by Representative Jerrold Nadler, a Democrat, for a federal inquiry into possible police misconduct at protests in New York. [Fox News] Read more…
Mike Segar/ReutersHundreds of demonstrators took a “foreclosure tour” of East New York, Brooklyn, on Tuesday as part of a nationwide Occupy Our Homes action. Protesters said they planned to occupy, fix up and turn over a vacant building to a poor family.
Mark Lennihan/Associated PressThe scene outside Newt Gingrich’s speaking engagement at the Union League Club on East 37th Street on Monday afternoon. Mr. Gingrich has suggested that protesters “take a bath” and “get a job.”
What has Occupy Wall Street lacked? A film series. Now it has one. Rooftop Films will screen four activism-themed movies at various locations from Dec. 13 to Dec. 16. [Artsbeat]
Occupiers marched from La Plaza community garden in the East Village to Zuccotti Park on Sunday afternoon, calling for agricultural reform that restricts corporate control of the food supply.
Chang W. Lee/The New York TimesBrandon Watts after a confrontation with the police on Nov. 17 in Zuccotti Park.
Brandon Watts, the Occupy Wall Street protester photographed with a bloody face after a confrontation with the police at Zuccotti Park, became a symbol of the movement for supporters and detractors alike. Mr. Watts’s lawyer and family, though, say he is not an inspired activist but a deeply troubled young man.
Most people saw Mr. Watts for the first time after the nationwide demonstrations on Nov. 17, when the image of him with blood soaking his hair and dripping down his face fed accusations of excessive force by the police. But others recognized him as a constant, and sometimes uneasy, presence at the protests.
Mr. Watts has been arrested six times since he came to New York for Occupy Wall Street, according to his lawyer, Martin Stolar, including his arrest on Nov. 17, when he was charged with felony assault and grand larceny after the police said he threw a AAA battery at the police and stole a deputy’s hat. In October, he was charged with resisting arrest after the police said he bragged to them that he had stolen some of the orange netting they use to contain crowds. He has four separate misdemeanor charges, Mr. Stolar said. Read more…
First there was pepper spray. Then came the batons. But on Thursday night, bad relations between the police and protesters entered a new dimension. While arrested demonstrators sat in their cells at a Lower East side station house, the police, protesters say, stole their pizza and drank all their soda pop.
“NYPD Sadistically Eats Pizzas Meant for World AIDS Day Occupy Wall St. Protesters,” read the headline on the protesters’ news release about the episode.
The police concede that they ate the pizza, but said they thought the pies were intended for them.
“Any way you slice it, it was an honest mistake,” said Paul J. Browne, the head police spokesman. Read more…
Philip Glass delivered a statement (or perhaps more of a poem) in support of Occupy Wall Street at Lincoln Center via the People’s Mic. rotesters invited audience members leaving the performance of Mr. Glass’s opera “Satyagraha,” about the life of Gandhi, to come down the stairs and join them, shouting, “Your life is the play! Your life is the opera!” [The Rest is Noise via West Side Rag]
The owner of a Wall Street cafe who laid off 21 workers several weeks ago and blamed Occupy Wall Street now says that because of the police barricades downtown, the restaurant is close to going out of business. “Unless we get a Hail Mary, it’s a matter of days, maybe a week or two,” he said. [DNA Info]
Hiroko Masuike/The New York TimesTechnicians from the Riverhead Foundation on Thursday removed a dead dolphin from the Hudson at Chelsea Piers and carted it away for examination.
