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4 unusual facts about Zuccotti Park


Liberty Square

Zuccotti Park, which was informally renamed "Liberty Square" during the Occupy Wall Street protests

Luo Yufeng

In November 2011, an English version of her original dating flyer was being handed out in Zuccotti Park during Occupy Wall Street.

Mike Daisey

American Utopias (2012) is Daisey's monologue about the way that physical spaces influence people's shared goals, using modern American utopian models including Disney World, the Burning Man Festival, and Zuccotti Park and the birth of the Occupy movement.

Zuccotti Park

After renovations in 2006, the park was renamed by its current owners, Brookfield Office Properties, after company chairman John Zuccotti.


Domestic Security Alliance Council

Following successful freedom of information requests by the Partnership for Civil Justice, the FBI released redacted documents in December 2012 showing that the FBI had spied on Occupy Wall Street (OWS) organizers and passed OWS information to financial firms via DSAC prior to the first OWS protests in Zuccotti Park.


see also

Tim Pool

Pool was featured as "The Media Messenger of Zuccotti Park" in Time's Person of the Year 2011, TIME's top 140 Twitter feeds of 2012 and is a Time 100 nominee.