Some of the city's wealthiest residents got visits from the Wall Street protesters.
Members of Occupy Wall Street took their march to midtown Manhattan on Tuesday. They walked along Fifth Avenue and Park Avenue where some of the richest 1 percent of the population live in townhouses and luxury apartments.
They paused outside buildings where media mogul Rupert Murdoch, banker Jamie Dimon and oil tycoon David Koch have homes, and decried the impending expiration of New York's 2 percent "millionaires' tax" in December.
The marchers say they have nothing against the millionaires personally, but think the rich should pay their fair share of taxes.
For the past 3½ weeks, protesters have besieged a park in lower Manhattan near Wall Street, denouncing corporate greed and the widening income gap.
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