At 7 AM this morning, Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan, the epicenter of the Occupy movement, was supposed to be cleaned by the park’s owner Brookfield Properties. With the help of the NYPD, cleaning crews were planning to clean the park one-third at a time, thus allowing the protesters to continue their occupation. There was on catch: after each cleaning was completed protesters were not going to be allowed to bring their tarps and sleeping bags back into the park. The protesters saw this policy as an eviction notice.

Occupy Wall Street sent out word calling for supporters to come to the park at 6 AM this morning to stop the NYPD from clearing out the park. But, according to The New York Times, sometime last night Brookfield informed the mayor’s office that they no longer needed police assistance because they had decided to postpone the cleaning. Apparently, Brookfield believes it can work out an arrangement with the protesters that “will ensure the park remains clean, safe, available for public use.”