Hell No We Won't Go! - Protesters Confront Mayor Bloomberg At Manhattan Restaurant

- Clean-up of 'unsanitary' camp protest postponed after trouble feared
- Protesters attempted to deliver the mayor a petition with 310,000 signatures supporting Occupy Wall Street encampment
- Mayor did not come out of the restaurant
- Brookfield Properties asks NYPD for help in clearing Zuccotti Park of protesters so it can be cleaned
- Police commissioner Ray Kelly says protesters can return after the clean-up, but not with tents or sleeping bags

Jubilant scenes are being witnessed this morning at the Occupy Wall Street protest camp after a planned ‘eviction’ was postponed following a last-minute change of mind by the park’s owners.

Brookfield Office Properties put off a clean-up and supporters of the protesters streamed into the New York park in the morning darkness today, forming a crowd of several hundred chanting people.

Chanting 'Hell no! We won't go!', hundreds of demonstrators stormed a Wall Street restaurant last night to confront New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg over a planned clean-up of their camp.

Protesters last night surrounded Cipriani restaurant in Manhattan as the Mayor was at dinner in an effort to hand him a petition with 310,000 signatures supporting their right to remain in Zuccotti Park.

Their anger was triggered by the Mayor's endorsement of a planned clean-up of the 'unsanitary' Occupy Wall Street encampment which was postponed at the last minute today.

The city's deputy mayor made the announcement after protesters, who viewed the clean-up as an 'eviction notice', streamed into the plaza this morning.

There was a strong police presence, and a showdown between protesters and authorities had been feared.

Hours earlier, the mayor had refused to leave the restaurant, instead making his exit out of a back door.

The city's deputy mayor made the announcement after protesters, who viewed the clean-up as an 'eviction notice', streamed into the plaza this morning.

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