One reason is that Occupy Wall Street has become a nuisance -- and a very disturbing one -- and not for the Wall Street titans despite a few random protests uptown. Zuccotti Park increasingly resembles a cesspool; people in the neighborhood complain about the noise, pollution and drug use.
Try getting to work in lower Manhattan when Zuccotti Park and the movement is in high gear; it's nearly impossible. And I'm not talking about bankers and traders who can take their limos to work in their offices uptown. Lots of people who work in the financial business work in back office and administration jobs that barely crack $100,000 a year -- not exactly fat-cat levels.
These folks support families and live in Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island. They are a diverse group -- much more diverse than the nearly all-white, and college educated protest movement, and they're getting tired of the nonsense.
To them Wall Street isn't the evil empire even if they agree with what the protesters are saying, but rather a job, something that they must do each and every day to pay the rent and feed their kids.
The occupiers are making that job all the more difficult.