Around 8 a.m., three police officers were on East Ninth Street ...
at the scene of last night's fire between Avenue B and Avenue C that likely wiped out three cars... We overheard an officer asking the security guard on duty at the former P.S. 64 about the plywood outside the building ...
...later, via a reader...
... and EVG reader Galwegian, who noted the street cleaning is Monday on this side of the street...
More to come... At this point, we're not sure of the cause of the fire...
Updated noon:
After the planned meeting outside
Ben Shaoul's Magnum Real Estate office last evening, John Penley headed here around 9 ... where he was joined by a handful of other people
protesting the proposed dorm development of P.S. 64.
Via Facebook, Penley said that he "was tired and feeling sick and left about midnight." As for the other people in the group? "Later I was told cops had threatened to arrest people. I didn't hear about what happened until this morning."
The resident who took the top photo on this
post said that he heard the protestors earlier, but didn't see anyone at the scene when the fire started around 1:20 a.m.