New York park cleanup postponed to protesters' delight

Friday, October 14, 2011 | 12:21 p.m. CDT

NEW YORK — The official cleanup of a plaza in lower Manhattan where protesters have been camped out for a month was postponed early Friday, sending up cheers from a crowd that had scrambled to scrub the park on its own out of fear the effort was merely a pretext to evict them.

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