Photo: Marcus Santos | NY Daily News
Upper Manhattan leaders and residents are getting their walking shoes ready for an 11-mile walk to join the Occupy Wall Street movement in lower Manhattan.
Community leaders, uptown residents and labor union representatives will come together at W. 181st St. and St. Nicholas Ave. on Monday morning to march down Broadway to Zuccotti Park.
The walk, called the “End to End for 99%” march, is expected to be lead by leaders state Sen. Adriano Espaillat, Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez and Councilwoman Inez Dickens.
“We felt that it was a good gesture of solidarity,” Espaillat told the Daily News on Thursday. “It shows that Manhattan is together with this (movement).”
This march also provides an opportunity to involve more residents from Harlem, East Harlem, Washington Heights and Inwood in the effort, he said.
“There’s a lot of people that are being impacted that live in these neighborhoods,” Espaillat said. “Some people haven’t had a chance to go down there, and as we walk down there we will be dragging people with us. We hope to see people join us in Harlem, in the West Side, in Chelsea.”
Read more: They’ll Occupy themselves with an 11-mile trek from Washington Heights to Wall Street – NY Daily News.
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