Earlier today, Occupy Wall Street took to the streets to commemorate the 2 month anniversary of the protest in a “Day of Action”. This morning, occupiers tried to block off access to the New York Stock Exchange in order to prevent the market from opening. They did not succeed. My mother, who works in the area, told me that at a few points this morning, the protests around the stock exchange became violent with the police.

This afternoon, around 3pm, the occupied moved to selected areas around the city including Brooklyn’s Borough Hall Plaza. I was on the scene. In fact, Colin Campbell of The Brooklyn Politics blog used a photo I tweeted of the protest in a blog post.

As the various protests broke up, the occupiers took to the subways, hoping to congest the system.

Meanwhile, at around 4pm, occupiers marched across the Brooklyn Bridge from Foley Square in Manhattan. As they exited the bridge footpath, at around 7:45, they started to converge in Cadman Plaza Park in Brooklyn. I live right across the street from the park, so I went to participate and take some photos and videos. I must say that the protest was very peaceful. Cops were on the scene just in case. But, the most violent thing I saw was an impromptu game of tag on the soccer field.

Colin Campbell tweeted that I had the “goldmine of BK’s Cadman Plaza Park #OWS protest video footage.” I’ll let you decide for yourselves. The playlist of the videos I recorded are below.

The photos I took of the protest at Borough Hall this afternoon and the protest in Cadman Plaza Park are below

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Hurricane Irene is coming. Please prepare yourself.

If you live in a low-lying area, please evacuate as soon as possible. A MANDATORY evacuation has been made for Zone A areas (the Coney Island and Rockaways area).

Please stock-up on supplies and prepare a “go-bag.”

The MTA will have a system-wide shutdown starting tomorrow, Saturday, August 27, 2011 at 12 PM. Please do not lead to the last train or bus. Service may not be restored by the Monday morning commute.

Beaches are closed. The Staten Island Ferry may be suspended if winds reach 46mph.

Freshmen move-ins on Sunday for Fordham, St. John’s, Columbia, and New York Universities have been postponed. Mets and Yankee games are cancelled

Alternate side of the street parking is suspended until Tuesday. Please clear the streets for emergency personnel. If you live in a low-lying area, please move your car to higher ground. City bridges may be closed. If you use Access-A-Ride, please schedule a pickup ASAP.

Yellow and livery cabs have been moved into “zone-fare” plans on Saturday with reduced fares and group rides, Liveries are allowed to make street pick-ups.

Please check on your neighbors and the elderly. Please move anything that could become debris indoors.

If you do not know what flood zone you are in, you can check out this map created by WNYC.

Brooklyn Borough President has come out with a preparation guide.

The New York City Office of Emergency Management also has created a guide for what to do in an emergency.

If you need assistance, please go to http://www.nyc.gov. If the website is down (they have been experiencing a high amount of traffic and have been adding servers to deal with the problem), you can check Twitter at @NYCMayorsOffice. You can also call 311.

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Tomorrow night, our wonderful Borough President Marty Markowitz will be giving his annual State of the Borough Address live from Sunset Park High School.

Last year, Brooklyn Young Democrats President Amanda Pizzuti and myself both attended Marty’s State of the Borough Address (which, that year, was tied in with his re-swearing in ceremony). I can say that it was a fantastic time filled with humor, calls for action, and highlights and stories of all of the things that makes Brooklyn the borough it is.

The speech will be broadcast live on BCAT (Time Warner Cable channel 56, Cablevision channel 69, and RCN channel 84 for subscribers in Brooklyn and in all five boroughs on Verizon FiOS channel 44). You can also watch it live online at http://bricartsmedia.org/bitspecials.

The festivities will start tomorrow night (February 3, 2011) at 6:30 PM.

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