Occupy Williamsburg's Revolution Will Be Photographed

A couple photographs landed in our inbox indicating that the 99 percent was busy in Williamsburg this weekend. A tipster sent in the photo above, which was hung on the side of the hotel Two Trees is developing on Wythe and North 11th and protests the $15 million in tax-exempt bond financing the developer received for the project. Meanwhile, another reader sent in a photo of a banner hung on a stalled development at Bedford and South 4th (click through to see it) that says “This Means War.” The person who sent in the snapshot wrote: “Occupy Williamsburg is alive & well. Stories of its demise have been greatly exaggerated.” There’s going to be a meeting of an Occupy Williamsburg General Assembly tomorrow focusing, in part, on gentrification, according to a notice about the gathering: “The Williamsburg/Greenpoint re-zoning laws passed by the City Council in 2005 paved the way for a rapid, and continually jaw-dropping wave of gentrification. Yet even as luxury condos grow like weeds on the waterfront, artists’ spaces and small businesses get priced out and Starbucks’ presence on Bedord Ave. looms, there remains a dense interweaving of strong communities with intricate histories and both conflicting and common concerns.”
Occupy Williamsburg General Assembly [Facebook]