My husband, docbrooklyn, and I were at Times Square yesterday for the gathering. We were at the southern end of the rally, between 42nd and 43rd Streets. This is a brief recap of our time there.
The three trains that go to Times Square from our neighborhood in Brooklyn happened, coincidentally, to be shut down for track work, so we improvised a new route and got to 42nd Street at about 5:30. First we headed east toward the sound of people chanting on Sixth Avenue. We saw the marchers coming uptown from Zuccotti and then Washington Square Park, a total of about three miles. They were limited to the sidewalk, and blocked from the street by a barricade. Given what we knew about the cops and their recent behavior toward the protesters, we didn't join them. We don't do close crowds penned in by barricades.