Courtesy of Pam Martens.
The peaceful stirrings of Occupy Wall Street began with a poster of a lithe ballerina poised gracefully on a bull with the reminder – “Bring tent.” After a year of arrests, evictions, police brutality, and no prosecutions of Wall Street titans, the mood is less sunny.
Lobby at 15 Central Park West, Home of Lloyd Blankfein and Sandy Weill
An offshoot of Occupy Wall Street called Occupy Goldman Sachs has now set up a camp outside the ultra luxurious home of Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein at 15 Central Park West in Manhattan. The group is calling for a big protest there on November 10 at 12 noon with the reminder to bring pitch forks and torches (fake ones, of course.) By this time next year, the reminder that the armaments should be fake may be shelved.
Explaining the protest on its web site, www.OccupyWallSt.org, the group says “this is a reminder that, as we close in to the 2012 elections, all roads lead to Wall Street. Heads they win, tails we lose; whoever wins the presidency there will be a victory party at Goldman Sachs.”
The heads they win, tails we lose ethos is fully functional inside the marble corridors of 15 Central Park West. Earlier this year, Sandy Weill sold his terraced, 6,700 square foot apartment there for $88 million. He paid $43.7 million for the penthouse pad in 2007. So the market value he was paying property taxes on should have been somewhere between those two figures, right? I mean that’s how the rest of America pays property taxes, right?
Occupy Protesters Outside 15 Central Park West
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