Journal!

I think my new favorite dollar slice is the 99 cents at 43rd and 3rd

Breaking: dozens of police officers arrive in Financial District to arrest white collar criminals.

J/K! Things are still calm with the police as of 6:30am. Lots of ongoing construction in the neighborhood and dozens of broadcast vans. The People’s Microphone at level 3 with hundreds of repeaters is quite a thing to behold.

Update: eviction was cancelled, occupation continues.

Most of the buses seem to have returned to 1PP, except one or two corrections buses which may have just been circling the block again.

I have some really bad camera phone videos here and here ; audio broke because my phone got soaked. Been meaning to get a new camera!

For some more context on this area, which includes residential buildings but has been effectively a giant police compound for the past decade, making it very difficult to travel north from below the Brooklyn Bridge, see this Gothamist article and this nytimes article.

Many buses of protesters rounded up

This is the next-gen 3D printing technology i’m most excited about: UV cured resins using a single axis platform and a high resolution video projector. Junior quotes details of down to 50 microns, the “hard problem” is already solved with commodity video projectors, and the process seems relatively quick and reliable. The big barrier right now is the cost of the resin at ~$200/liter, but if that price came down to $50/liter I think the whole process would have good value. See this video to see the printer in action.

(photo from Junior Veloso)