As a record number of lawsuits against the city's police move into litigation, the price tag is $150 million a year and growing. Where will it stop? ⧸ Full Story

To mark May Day, Occupy Wall Street has declared today a general strike, and protests are planned for many locations in midtown and lower Manhattan. Already, we’ve seen and filed numerous reports of public parks and plazas, as well as privately owned public spaces, barricaded against public entry. Whether you’re a pedestrian, protester or both, this map will… ⧸ Full Story

Macy's Thanksgiving festivities cost the NYPD $192,000 last year ⧸ Full Story

A video diary of Occupy Wall Street's ejection from Zuccotti Park ⧸ Full Story

Zuccotti Park is not the only privately owned public space downtown that must be open to the public 24/7 ⧸ Full Story

As Sanitation workers dragged trash bags full of crumpled cardboard signs and blankets across Broadway, Zuccotti Park – for seven weeks until early this morning a heaving mass of rebellion as home base of the Occupy Wall Street movement – sat silent and deserted this morning, even as a temporary restraining order from State Supreme Court Judge… ⧸ Full Story

WNYC listeners and New York World readers report back on plazas and lobbies improperly blocked off from public access ⧸ Full Story

Occupy Wall Street says the financial industry is the problem. But does government hold any solutions? ⧸ Full Story

Architects organize a celebration of Manhattan's quasi-public plazas and arcades ⧸ Full Story

Public workers arrive in force at Zuccotti Park ⧸ Full Story

Occupy Wall Street gets reinforcements from the city's civil service unions ⧸ Full Story