(Andrew Kelly)
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There’s a New World Order in Zuccotti Park.
Cops and private security guards adopted a zero-tolerance policy for the Occupy Wall Street protesters yesterday — confiscating blankets, sleeping bags and anything left unattended as they laid down the law in the newly cleaned-up park.
The crackdown has drastically thinned out the protesters — leaving behind a motley mix of hard-core holdouts, junkies and perverts struggling to stay awake as they wander the area, witnesses said.
“Most of the protesters left. This is skels and [emotionally disturbed persons] and homeless,” said a security worker for Brookfield Properties — which owns the park — as he surveyed the crowd of roughly 45 holdouts, who were outnumbered nearly two-to-one by cops and private security. “This is nuts.”
Even with the police presence, a woman was molested for a second time.
Ed Steinberg, 29, of Bowery Street, was collared at about 10:35 p.m. Tuesday after he allegedly groped a woman’s breasts and tried to throw her to the ground.
Steinberg, who allegedly was carrying a knife, was charged with forcible touching, sex abuse and criminal possession of a weapon. He was taken to Bellevue for a psych exam.
His alleged victim was previously assaulted on Oct. 8, and the creep charged in that attack — freshly sprung from Rikers — was back in Zuccotti.